As global economic uncertainty continues to provoke worry and unrest across the globe, governments everywhere are looking to trim budgets that have for far too long been grossly inflated, spiraling beyond the reach of even the most economically productive Western societies. In the face of...

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In the beginning, there was a Great Storyteller, who knew all the stories that address life’s most important questions. He and his wife and his son lived alone, and the Great Storyteller planned on passing on his stories to his son, so that future generations would know and love them....

Patrick DeWitt has only just arrived on the Canadian literature scene, but his latest novel, The Sisters Brothers, is getting him noticed, winning the Governor General’s Award in 2011, and making the Giller Prize...

As a political studies major, I am bound by both interest and duty to the daily political news bites from both national and international levels of government. At times, however, the tedium of this sort of news can be truly underwhelming. It is a small wonder that citizens of Western...

A self-reflecting narrator, who prods as deeply into the lives of his readers as his own, writes genuinely—as a mirror for reality. In The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes constructs such a mirror. And through the course of his brief novel, does not let his reader look...

The iPod was invented in 2001, the cell phone in 1973, and the first powered airplane in 1903. Powered flight is over one hundred years old, and yet I am still enamored by it, in a way that I am not by the others. I love to fly. If I do not get a window seat, I will peer awkwardly over the...

“Even when passages seemed to come easily, as though I were copying from a folio held open by smiling angels, the manuscript revealed the usual signs of struggle—bloodstains, teethmarks, gashes, and burns” –Annie Dillard, The Writing...

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is his faithfulness.” - Lamentations...

Salvete, children! I hope that you found some time on your respective breaks for some rest and relaxation. However, it’s more than likely that, like me, you spent your break catching up on all manner of useless but highly important activities that have left you exhausted just in time for...

Winter’s best magic is its snowfall, that bright white reflector to better illuminate the stained glass cinema of the human spirit. The cathedral of the mind naturally plays memories but each season brings back scenes we don’t recall till pressed to rewind there. And with imagination we...

“This inner eye is you: your identity, your ego, the conscious focus of your being. Everything outside this subjective core is the objective world of a character… STORY is born in that place where the subjective and objective realms touch.” –Robert...

Following exams and final papers, your Christmas vacation may look something like my own: a dozen episodes of animated television, one season of Game of Thrones, and two seasons of Cougar Town. I don’t judge. In fact, I encourage such self-indulgence as a means of purging the voluminous data...

Polygamy has been illegal in Canada for 121 years, and yet, for the past 65 years, the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C. has broken this law with no consequence....

At the risk of offending or exhausting readers by contributing what may well be the tenth article they read this year on Christmas (the meaning of Christmas, the culture of Christmas, the story of Christmas, etc.), I would nevertheless like to offer some reflections on the subject. And because...

In an attempt to bring greater efficiency to the distribution of electrical power, BC Hydro has introduced a new kind of power meter that uses wireless technology. Currently, there is an analog box that records your electricity usage but does not allow for real-time analysis of the usage of...