Month: May 2016

Did you happen to miss the recent election debate? On Wednesday, September 16th, Vanier hosted a bilingual election debate in the auditorium. Present was a candidate from each of the parties, Jim Hughes from the Green Party (Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs), Mario Beaulieu from the Bloc Québécois (La Pointe-de-l’Île), Stéphane Dion from the Liberal Party (St. Laurent/Cartierville), Daniel Green from the Green Party (NDG/Westmount), and Rodolphe Husny from the Conservative Party (Outremont). Various topics were approached in the debate, such as youth employment and the economy, environmental issues, aboriginal affairs, as well…

On September 28th, a spectacular natural phenomenon happened and bewildered millions of people over the planet. You guessed it; there was an orange-red moon high up in the sky watching every one of us. The blood moon, as it is commonly referred to, is actually a total lunar eclipse. This is when the moon orbits and goes behind the Earth. The Earth therefore casts a shadow onto the orb of night (the moon) because of the Sun’s rays and makes the latter appear to have a red hue. The light…

For the past half-century, a mass-influx of immigrants have been moving in on the west- and these are not coming from South America. This has been brought to the attention of governments worldwide with the new Syrian refugee crisis, which began with the rise of the Syrian rebel faction seeking to overthrow the currently empowered Assad regime- in 2011, that has seen millions of people attempting to flee their war-torn country of Syria, besieged by rebels on one side and the notorious terror group IS (formerly known as ISIS) on…