admin • March 27, 2008

It’s a little-known fact that congenital heart defects affect one out of every hundred infants in Canada. Specialty camp opportunities are numerous for kids with special needs, or for those affected by diabetes and cancer, and although the disease is so prevalent, there is little support for congenital heart patients… Read More

admin • March 27, 2008

We all know how important vegetables are for the proper functioning of the human body, but most of us try to resist this fact. Some of us even consciously rebel against the nutritional call. “Vegetables?” you say. “Fie on vegetables! Hand me more white bread and butter.” In an effort… Read More

admin • March 27, 2008

It was a crisp autumn morning, the kind we get in Montreal two weeks before the winter freeze. The stairs were glistening with dew, and as I enthusiastically took them underfoot, I felt myself slip. And down I went, my tailbone crashing on each concrete step, leaving me bruised and… Read More

admin • March 20, 2008

You will need an assistant to cook this recipe, to finish the bottle of beer. You could do it yourself, but we all know the perils of operating a hot oven while drunk. Yes, this banana bread has beer in it; it’s the beer that gives the loaf so much… Read More

admin • March 20, 2008

Introducing the newest fast food innovation; the Col-Pop. Designed by the Korean fast food chain BBQ Chicken, the Col-Pop is a cup of cola with a miniature container of fried chicken attached to the top. It is designed in such a way that you can drink a cold drink and… Read More

Joseph Watts • March 17, 2008

According to the Catholic News Agency, Irish bishops moved Saint Patrick’s Day from today to March 15 last June because March 17 falls on holy week this year. Apparently, they failed to tell anyone but the Catholic News Agency, so the rest of us found out last week. If you… Read More

Rosie Aiello • March 17, 2008

The Assisted Human Reproduction Act of 2004 put many of our science fiction nightmares to rest: thanks to the act, Canada will never legally create an army of clones; you will never give birth to the offspring of another species; and there will never be any goldfish-humans swimming in your… Read More

admin • March 6, 2008

I have recently made a controversial move: I fell in love. And although he is not a Montague, nor I a Capulet, and although neither of us are members of the Jets or the Sharks, some might say that I am sleeping with the enemy. You see, I am Jewish. Read More

admin • March 6, 2008

This pizza recipe was brought over from Italy when my great-grandparents immigrated to Canada in 1915. My great-grandmother taught it to her French-Canadian daughter-in-law (my grandmother) in the 1950s, who taught it to me in the early 1990s. The recipe is close to culinary perfection, since the kinks have been… Read More

admin • March 6, 2008

Those who defy racial and gender barriers to ascend to seats of power have a responsibility to help others follow, according to prominent director and broadcaster Rita Shelton Deverell. “One person can make a huge difference if they are sitting in [that] chair,” she said last week, speaking at Concordia’s… Read More