Author Cody Groat

After Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was reported missing at 2:40 MST (Malaysia Standard Time), I feel I asked myself the same question thousands of others around the world did as well. How, in 2014, can we simpl...

The physical art of a book is lost through an eReader. By Cody Hoffman. I couldn't tell you the difference between a Kobo or a Kindle, and to be quite honest I hope I never need to. All that matters to me i...

Family ties. Rebecca Duce. In a January 2014, C-SPAN conducted an exclusive interview for a new series to be released regarding the lives of the former First Ladies of the United States, Ms. Barbra Bush (ag...

Senators thrown out. Rebecca Duce. As read in an open letter written by Justin Trudeau that The Sputnik has received through being on the mailing list of Liberal Party staff member Scott Bardsley, “The Li...

Rodman and Jong-un. Rebecca Duce. Kim Jong-un is a name some may have never heard, but those who have can attest to the fact that he fits the widely accepted definition of “dictator”: “a ruler with to...

Political Scandals. Rebecca Duce To start, last week, suspended Senator Patrick Brazeau criticized a reporter for asking if he drank the previous night, leading him to ask if that was her view on native peo...

  Reading the headline, you may not know much about those three names. Maybe you have heard of Tupac from his short lived (but highly rewarded) career as a rapper, and maybe the names of Castro and Rams...

Classroom anxiety. Courtesy of getridofsocialanxiety.com The thought didn't really pop into my mind until I randomly read it one day on Twitter. Class presentations are brutal for a lot of us, having to do ...

I'll be honest. When I'm stressed about an upcoming exam that I've hardly read any of the relevant material for, or when I'm looking outside and see storm clouds in the distance, or when I'm generally just bumm...

Carol Todd and her daughter Amanda, who took her life on October 10, 2012. Photo courtesy of Carol Todd. On September 7, 2012, 15-year-old Amanda Todd of Port Coquitlam, British Colombia, posted a video on ...

I wasn’t sure if shock was the appropriate word, or amazement, or even anger for what I read one day while online. As a bit of context, my late grandfather, as well as my step-father's father, both fought in ...

I was just leaving a meeting with Toronto City Councillor Mike Layton (Ward 19) on April 15th, when, as I always do, I decided to check Twitter. It wasn't quite sure what had happened, all that was known though...

Art by Rebecca Duce. I'm not going to take up time by bouncing around the topic. I honestly think it's about time marijuana was legalized in Canada. To be quite honest, I don't see why it isn't yet. I've ne...

Art by Rebecca Duce. It seems I've had a whole collection of life experiences that I'm able to turn into newspaper-worthy stories, including one that happened to me August 11, 2013 – one of the last amazi...

Orientation week last year sort of let me down, but in its defense, it may be partially my fault. I mean, it was cool seeing Shawn Hooke and Down With Webster. That day in O-Week was my first concert ever, a...

Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair (center) with Federal NDP candidate of record Marc Laferriere (right) and Hartmann North America president Torben Rosenkrantz-Theil (left) viewing the new factory wing currently ...

I swear, shows I watched growing up in the 90's had so much more depth and life lessons than the ones my nine- and ten-year-old brothers are watching these days. I'll admit, I only started watching Boy Meets Wo...

I think a lot of people were pleased, as was I, with Disney's decision of making one of their latest princesses a little different than the “traditionally beautiful” previous ones. Now, I know that sounds w...

I've had the chance to do some pretty extensive journalism, which has been both enrapturing and informative. Some of the stories I have been able to hear, and some of the people I’ve met impress me still to t...

A picture spread around the world. Some had seen it before, but the press hardly ran it. It depicts a young German boy with a grim look on his face, and a bird-bearing swastika on his lapel. Later, the name of ...

When I called Mark Hominick to double check that our interview was still a go, he had to fight to make his voice heard over his young daughter who was rather upset. Parenthood isn't the fight Hominick has been ...

January 21 was a day that brought in strong winds to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. It also brought in a crowd of over a million people. All eagerly waiting to watch the inauguration of their newly reelected P...

Collectively, the movies A Clockwork Orange, Gran Torino, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo earned roughly $529 million at the box office. Besides a wide fan base, these films, which have release dates rangin...

When the clock chimed midnight on December 31, the 2012 ended. It was the year of the apparent Mayan apocalypse. The year Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space. The year of the Summer Olympics in Lond...

In Canadian history, youth run protests have had an effect. But have they ever reached their intended goals? In the spring of 1947, after the end of WWII, a small community on Vancouver Island was about to figh...

  “I think sharing your own personal experiences and stories is essential to modern education," says Marc Laferriere, part owner of The Brant Advocate, Brant NDP MP Candidate of record, and recurring ...

Art by Diane Sison                               I flick on the television, sit down, ...