A petition supported by a number of famous Canadian authors, actors, musicians and politicians wants to change the name of Victoria Day to “Victoria and First Peoples Day” By Mick Sweetman Dialog Staff Over 800 people, including author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, Inuk musician Susan Aglukark and six other prominent Canadians, have signed a petition as of this…
Student unions and the campus press are two things that go together like a spark to gasoline. When it’s done right you can take the energy and use it to propel the best interests of students as far as possible. When it’s done wrong it can lead to everybody getting badly burned. By Mick Sweetman…
By Mick Sweetman Recently while taking the subway in the morning rush there was an almost business-as-usual delay that left hundreds, perhaps even more than a thousand people crammed onto the platform as we waited for the train. When the train did finally arrive, it was packed to the gills with people who had…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor On March 7, Evan Murray, the chief returning officer for the Student Association (SA) election, released a public statement outlining the reasons that he rejected a request from students for a polling location for Arts and Design students at the School of Design building at 230 Richmond St. East. According to Yassamin Yassini,…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor The trouble started with a light-hearted photo on the campaign trail of Yuchen Sun, who is running for the director of Finance and Operations, by her running mate on the Unified 4 Change slate Avanish Agarwal who is a candidate for Hospitality and Culinary Arts Rep. On the night of…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor Some people choose to live on the streets of Toronto throughout the winter. That’s right, I said they choose to live on the streets. But the choice they make is a Hobson’s choice between the overcrowded, bed bug infested and dangerous conditions of the city’s shelter system or the…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor When you read the phrase “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” what image pops into your head? Are you thinking about a horror-story told as a cautionary tale about the dangers of picking people up who are thumbing a ride? Or are you thinking of Kai (who when asked if he had a last…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor This week has seen the campus press making the news and much as covering it. The Gazette at Western University is in a hot dispute with the University Students’ Council (USC) over plans to move the paper into a space about half the size of its current office, reportedly to…
Toronto exists because of one of the biggest swindles you can think of. In 1787, the British Crown first made what was known as the Toronto Purchase from the Mississaugas who were the Indigenous Peoples in the region. However, this was no tidy real estate transaction, the deed for the original purchase was left blank,…
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporer The Canadian University Press (CUP) has released the short list of nominees for their 2012 John H. MacDonald Journalism Awards and The Dialog has reason to celebrate! The awards, nicknamed ‘The Johnnies’, began in 2003 as a way to recognize excellence in journalism across the campus press in Canada. There…
It’s been an emotional week for me as Remembrance Day wass again marked and we march towards the 100- year anniversary of the slaughter of the first World War. I remember the hours I spent as a skinny teenager in the Air Cadets standing guard at the cenotaph at the ceremonies in my hometown of…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor Many people don’t bother to vote, let alone lobby their elected representatives, sit in public galleries, or attend protests. It’s not that people are apathetic or dumb. On the contrary, many people know that their votes and their voices really don’t count for much in our system. Once you cast…
