As a regular Twitter user, I read plenty of articles that drive me up the wall. More often than not, I just keep scrolling. Recently, however, I came across one so asinine and so patently ridiculous, that I feel compelled to give my two cents. Buckle up. “How to Curate Your Zoom Backdrop, and Why You Should,” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Aug. 12 is equal parts business advertisement and nose-in-the-air critique. It embodies everything wrong with academia and is firmly roote

Last week, a now-deleted Twitter account called @YoungShandro made waves online. The account posted some screenshots of articles from the Gauntlet, written in 1999 and 2000 by Tyler Shandro, Alberta’s Minister of Health, when he was a student at the University of Calgary. What’s interesting about the articles is that they appear to reveal far more left-wing views than the ones Shandro is espousing now. The other interesting thing is that, on the Gauntlet’s archived website, the byline has been

Have you ever participated in a group project that you’ve actually enjoyed? Whenever I see a course outline with a group project, unless the course is absolutely necessary to my graduation, I immediately withdraw. I absolutely loathe the entire process and the arguments for why it exists in the first place are baseless and farcical. Group work, according to some professors and experts in teaching and learning, prepares students for “workplace culture.” No, it doesn’t. Professors and administrat

Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, has been left off the initial list of federal debate participants. His exclusion by the new Leaders’ Debates Commission is an abhorrent misstep that undermines the mandate of the Commission. Two of three criteria must be met for inclusion in the debates. First, the party is represented in the House of Commons by a Member of Parliament who was elected as a member of that party. Second is that the party intends to run candidates in at least

A worrying trend is emerging towards politicians advocating for a tiered minimum wage system — specifically, a minimum wage that is lower for workers who serve liquor. Last year, Stephen Mandel of the Alberta Party advocated for the practice. And just this week, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney said it was something his party would look into if elected. At the UCP leadership debate in September 2017, Kenney stated that he would not run on a platform of cutting peoples’ wages. Bu

Recently, I received an email from a Liberal member of Parliament’s mailing list promoting the success of the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program. While I don’t deny that the program has been expanded greatly through Liberal leadership, I do have one issue with it — eligibility for the program ends at age 30. Certainly, the argument that young people need opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise get is understandable. There absolutely needs to be protection from employers hiring older, experienced pe