Recipe: I owe my survival to this green smoothie
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor Let’s start things off with a disclaimer: I’m one of those weirdos who hates cheesecake because I feel that cake should be sweet and cheese should be salty —...
Category: Features
The best podcasts for your daily commute
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor I think we all have one in our lives — that person who can’t get through a conversation without redirecting it toward their latest listening muse. Perhaps they’ve sent...
5 spots on campus to take advantage of this semester
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor Nearly 10,000 full-time students attend MRU during a given academic year. And every-freaking-one of them is going to be flocking to the same three spots when classes begin: the...
Summer events you won’t want to miss in 2019
By Rosemary De Souza, Features Editor In less than a month, school will be officially over — well, at least for university students. So, pack up those bags and put those textbooks aside as it...
The rewarding, fulfilling and stressful reality of summer internships
By Colin Macgillivray, Publishing Editor At the end of April 2018, I had accepted a summer internship for Black Press in British Columbia. I genuinely had no idea what to expect. Initially, I felt nothing...
Aftermath: How authorities of justice and safety look at sexual violence
By Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Staff Writer In the 2015 study of Women’s Media Center on how the U.S. media covers campus rape and sexual assault, they found that 41 per cent of the topics given...
Why you should know about Corazon de Niña
By Cassandra Jamieson, Contributor I didn’t really know about this place until my grandmother passed away. She was a monthly donor and actively saw the children on a somewhat regular basis. She had wanted to...
Aftermath: Breaking through the uncomfortable conversations
By Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Staff Writer In the 2015 study of Women’s Media Center on how the U.S. media covers campus rape and sexual assault, they found that 41 per cent of the topics given...
5 downtown dining spots to spruce up your workweek
By Isabelle Bennett, Staff Writer Let it be known: the need to wear three pairs of pants and a parka is slowly dissipating. Not only does this validate the faith our society puts in the...
Instagram poets speak to a new generation of readers
By Isabelle Bennett, Sam Nar, Contributor and Photo Editor Traditional poetry is losing presence in a society overtaken by technology. But a new generation of poets are taking advantage of new technology like Instagram to...
