The INSIDER

Interview with Member of Parliament: Sameer Zuberi

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Sameer Zuberi is a Canadian MP. His job is to represent the riding of Pierrefonds–Dollard in the House of Commons. First elected as a Liberal MP in 2019 and re‑elected in 2021 and 2025, Zuberi remains committed to addressing the priorities of his constituents in Parliament. Starting from college, what is your educational background? “For CEGEP, I got a degree in Commerce at Marianopolis. Immediately after, I completed a bachelor’s in mathematics from Concordia University. In my early 30s, I returned to school to get a law degree from UQÀM.”…

Vanier Alumni

Re-living Vanier College: Featuring Yvonne

January 22, 2026January 23, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Vanier College has been around for over 50 years. Within that time, thousands of students have walked its halls and have graduated. Amongst those students is Yung Fong Au. She reached out to The Insider showing interest in wanting to be interviewed and her short and sweet answers are what she shared: My full name is Yung Fong Au. My common Christian name is Yvonne. That’s how everyone calls me. I was enrolled at Vanier in Fall 2004, and I graduated in Winter 2006. I have not been back to…

How Do You Celebrate Your Holidays

2026 or 2018?

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

While most countries entered 2026 as December 31st ended, Ethiopia instead stayed in the year 2018. This East African country with a population of over 137 million seems to be seven years behind the rest of the world. Its current year is just one of the many examples of its uniqueness. Ethiopia doesn’t follow the Gregorian calendar that most other cultures use. For them, the birth ofJesus is set to 7 AC which is why they live in 2018. Ethiopians celebrate the new year on September 11th. These differences occur…

News

Venezuela: a Case Study of Modern Interventionism

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Aggressive tariffs, intervention in the Middle East, ambitions of territorial expansion; ever since the Trump administration regained power a year ago, it has kept making bolder and more aggressive moves on the global checkerboard. Nowhere has this new era of American interventionism been more evident than in the theatrical regime change that occurred in Venezuela during the night of January 3rd, where the country’s head of state, President Nicolàs Maduro, was abducted by U.S. forces from his home. The Venezuelan leader is now awaiting trial in New York, where he…

Advice Column

Are You Still Watching? Second Screen Viewing and the Attention Economy

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Let’s face it: attention is one of the most valuable resources that companies are honing in on. The world is constantly drowning in entertainment and information at every corner, so it makes sense that people are finding it more and more difficult to concentrate on a single task. As screens take over our lives, there seems to be some sort of hierarchy establishing itself. Cell phones are rising to the top while television is slowly sinking to the bottom. Why is that? Second Screen Viewing “Second Screen Viewing” is the…

Horoscopes

The Chinese Zodiac

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Lunar New Year It’s January which means it’s officially 2026, happy new year to all. This also means, in many western cultures, that the horoscopes begin again with Capricorn, the earth sign symbolized by a sea-goat. However, in many oriental cultures, it is not yet the new year: many follow the lunisolar calendar and, therefore, their new year begins during the month of February. This also impacts their beliefs and traditions. A very popular and world-shared worship is that of the zodiacs (as we’ve seen with our own horoscopes), today…

Historical Days

January 27th:

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Holocaust Rememberance Day Why did the Holocaust happen? A holocaust such as the one known with a capital H does not happen overnight. Instead, I’d say that this is a perfect example of the boiling frog phenomenon. First came Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 that popularized eugenics. Darwin presented the theory of Darwinism: organisms will adapt to their environment so that, in the end, only the traits most suitable for life and survival will remain. The theory was then grossly oversimplified and…

Health

COLDS : TRUE OR FALSE

January 14, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

As we enter the cold winter months, many of us will see our immune system compromised by bouts of coughing and endlessly snot-clogged sinuses. When it comes to the common cold, it is sometimes impossible to differentiate scientifically backed facts from old wives’ tales, which is why I am taking it upon myself to bust some of those myths. 1. Common Cold and Flu are Synonyms FALSE. Although both diseases share some symptoms, the ‘flu’ refers specifically to the influenza virus, while the ‘common cold’ is an umbrella term for…

News

Victoria’s Worst Secret

January 14, 2026January 14, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Jeffrey Epstein : America’s Worst Rags to Riches Story (the image above is one of Jeffrey Epstein and his long-time aprtner, Ghislaine Maxwell) Who Was Jeffrey Epstein? Born to a middle-class New York family in 1953, he died in a New York jail in 2019. Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy is as disgusting as it is confusing. In 1974, while lacking any credentials, as, while he studied at NYU for three years, he never obtained his diploma, Epstein was somehow hired as a teacher of high school physics and mathematics at the…

Advice Column Entertainment

Ditch the Doomscrolling!

January 14, 2026January 14, 2026 newspaper 0 comment

Exams are coming up, schedules are filled to the brim and sleep is scarce, but winter break is approaching just as fast as our finals. Students are finally getting the rest they deserve without having to worry about when their next exam is taking place or when their next assignment is due. However, this change is abrupt. We’re transitioning from having so much to do with so little time to having nothing to do at all. We have so much free time during winter break that it becomes difficult to…