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Canada seems to get a bad rap when it comes to culture. Somehow we’ve ended up with the reputation of borrowing from everyone else. From our food, to our music, everything looks, smells, touches and tastes like the rest of the world. It seems as though multiculturalism has lived up to its name: everyone has stuck to his or her own thing, and as a result, Canada has no mass culture to call its own.
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January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Left: Nurse Regehr works with PWA [Photo: Austin Jean]
Last spring, a randomly selected group of 1,500 students at Trinity Western University were asked to get personal with the Wellness Centre. Students were asked questions about alcohol, sexual activity, stress and mental health in addition to inquiries about nutrition, exercise and general wellness.
The results were a part of the National College Health Assessment, a predominantly American survey that tracks health trends among university students.
Though the TWU survey results were calculated last semester, the Wellness Centre has chosen not to release them to the TWU community yet, said campus nurse Michelle Regehr.
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After playing their previous four games at home, the Spartans men’s basketball team were back on the road. TWU first visited the University of Saskatchewan Huskies, before traveling to Edmonton to take on the University of Alberta Golden Bears.
Their first game saw the hot Saskatchewan Huskies team start off strong, and they didn’t look back. The Huskies, who won the game 104-66, had no challenge at all as the Spartans failed to score 20 points in any quarter of the game.
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What is the source of goodness and justice on this earth? Assuming these exist, either it is God who is just and brings justice, or it is us.
Let’s say we, corporately, are the source of goodness and justice. To begin with, we see that the world is essentially unjust: hard-working, well-intentioned people are going through extremely tough times. The solution? Humans in a state of greater material abundance come together, act and justice is served.
