The great marriage debate- B-list actors provide a scare
- Owen Pallett creates fantasy world on latest album
- Clowns with a conscience: campus comedians give back
- V-Day explores female sexuality
- Wilco wows audience with two-hour set
- Olympics bring out best in Canadian athletes, but worst in Canadian music
- Ivey Film Festival looking for fresh talent
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OSAP stands fro student ASSISTANCE, folks. It isn't meant to carry the entire cost of the years spent in higher education. If the $7.50 per day for food is too low feel free to top it up from your own funds. On the claim that university is too costly that's been the standard claim for
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When did it become assumed that a student is entitled to "live off osap"? It is meant to be a source of assistance to students, not their one and only source of income while they're in school. There's nothing to prevent a student from topping up the $7.50 per day food allowance from their own
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[...] The Gazette – Homemade lemon ginger tea [...]
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Nice article. I, along with the rest of our staff at the Ontarion (Guelph student paper), got to "use" the human library last week and it was a fascinating experience.
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How about that terrible Manitoba tourist commercial?
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I have an oven, but I'll be damned if I use it for anything other than frozen chicken nuggets. Microwave dessert, ahoy! I tasted this, and it was unreal.
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Microwave cooking = perfect for rez! This would be a cute way to impress a date, even if you don't own an oven
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Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland revisits the magical world created by Lewis Carroll in his literary works Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Unfortunately, the journey isn’t so wonderful. Set 13 years after her first visit to Wonderland, (known as Underland to Burton), Alice Kingsley (Wasikowska) is at ... (more)
I love awards shows. While some people dread those nights when Hollywood icons are celebrated and praised for their day’s work, I crave them. The satisfaction when a truly deserving actor wins an award, the disappointment when someone I want to win doesn’t, the montages, the performances — I love it ... (more)
The students of Theatre Western are poised and ready to take on Grammy and Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, this week at the Wave. This marks the first time the group will perform a musical not written by Western students. It is an ambitious project, ... (more)
V-Day Western is once again presenting the empowering works of Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer. The campaign has raised over $75,000 in its nine years of production. V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. It’s performed around ... (more)
A reformatted remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 thriller of the same name, The Crazies tells the story of a military designed virus that accidentally contaminates a small towns’ drinking water, infecting the citizens with a maddening disease. The film follows four individuals as they try to escape their infected ... (more)
Omid Salari gets really excited when he talks about philanthropy. It’s funny to watch. If you’ve ever seen Salari around, you’ll know his shtick is typically to make people laugh and as a member of the Comedy Club here at Western, Salari leads a motley crew of comedians better known for ... (more)
I don’t even know where to begin with the nightmare that was the musical performances at Sunday night’s closing ceremonies. I’ll start with Nickelback, because it was mostly downhill from there. I don’t think I have to bash the Alberta band, because according to the outbursts of frustration on Twitter and ... (more)
I don’t even know where to begin with the nightmare that was the musical performances at Sunday night’s closing ceremonies. I’ll start with Nickelback, because it was mostly downhill from there. I don’t think I have to bash the Alberta band, because according to the outbursts of frustration on Twitter and ... (more)
Owen Pallett has shed his videogame-inspired moniker, Final Fantasy. Fortunately, his signature style and sound remains intact. Thursday night, London’s Aeolian Hall was filled with hipsters of all ages, anticipating the one-man-electro-orchestra that is Pallett. Launching the evening was the freak folk, boy-girl duo Snowblink. The Toronto outfit offered the crowd a ... (more)
The anticipated Canada versus Russia Olympic hockey game may have taken place last night, but for the diehard Wilco fans in London, there was no better place to be than Centennial Hall. Wilco — short for “will comply” — is a band that’s been around for over a decade, has released ... (more)