5 photography tips from one amateur to another
By Jill Meagher, Contributor Photography can be a tough hobby to get into — it took me forever before I finally got a shot that I actually liked. However, it is extremely rewarding and...
Category: Features
Opinion: Why I’d give Rate My Professors a solid 2.2/5
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor Three years later, and I still can’t shake the memory of hysterically crying, body limp as left-out lettuce against my parent’s tile floor circa August, 2016. My brilliant, university-bound...
Why I switched to menstrual cups (and you should too)
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor There are several products that I’d consider revolutionary — the wheel, for instance. The inventors of AirDrop, Instant Pot and PopCorners Carnival Kettle Corn Chips are also highly regarded...
Review: LimeBike’s electric scooters are underrated
By Isabelle Bennett, Features Editor I spent this year’s short summer out of town, so one could imagine the curiosity I felt when I returned to my downtown dwelling only to find that the...
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 —...
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...
