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Celebrate Jane/Finch Neighbourhood Pride and Get Walking!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by anucha

Youth in the Jane/Finch community, like youth in other ‘marginalized’ urban cities, have been the focus of negative public communication that brands them as ‘problems.’ Extensive negative media coverage of the community has resulted in the association of Jane/Finch with youth-on-youth violence, poverty, and lack of opportunity. Paradoxically, co-existing with this negative framing of Jane/Finch is a high degree of Continue reading Celebrate Jane/Finch Neighbourhood Pride and Get Walking!→

Turn Up the Music?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by anucha

Recently, the media has been in over its head over the controversy that surrounds singer Chris Brown’s song “Turn Up the Music”. What, you ask, is it that has the media buzzing about this particular song? Well, for one thing, Chris Brown’s ex-girlfriend Rihanna is featured in this song. (Both are pictured at right.)

How Would You Spend ‘Leap Day’?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by anucha

2012 is a Leap Year, meaning that an extra day has been added to our calendar – February 29th, or Leap Day. This date only occurs once every four years, when this extra day is added to correct for the fact that the earth does not actually orbit the sun in precisely 365 days, the length of a typical year. Continue reading How Would You Spend ‘Leap Day’?→

Are We Eating Responsibly?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by anucha

A conversation with some of my friends got me thinking: are we really eating responsibly? Are we making a conscious effort to evaluate how the foods we eat affect our overall health? Are we so accustomed to eating unhealthily that snack and/or junk food companies have made us out to be predictable customers? To these questions, my reply is: perhaps. Continue reading Are We Eating Responsibly?→

The Shrinking Opportunity For Post-Secondary Education

Posted on February 2, 2012 by anucha

There was a great article that I read on Thursday, January 26, 2012, entitled “Under Pressure: The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario families”. This article was based on a report that the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives did on rising tuition fees in Ontario. The article talked about how Ontario undergraduate students have witnessed a 244% real tuition Continue reading The Shrinking Opportunity For Post-Secondary Education→