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 this day.…
I used to cringe at the sound of the “F” word. It is a word exclaimed – not just said – under the most undesirable circumstances, such as when your finger gets caught in the door. When a group of…
My grandfather used to say to my mother, “There is no ‘fair’.” It wasn’t an old adage or a philosophy to live by, but rather a sign of exasperation at the state of the world. I laughed when my mother…
Plagiarism, like most dirty laundry, isn’t often aired in the proverbial public square of academia. For the most part, it’s a problem that flies under the radar, reintroduced to students only when papers are due and insinuated at by an…
This past week, airwaves all over the world have been full, nay, clogged with news and analysis of what happened on that fateful day ten years ago. September 11th had become the crux of the 21st century and virtually every…
Have you ever received that chain-email with pictures of the less fortunate in Africa? They usually remind us to be thankful for what we have with graphic images of Africans living in appalling conditions; an African child’s feet in sandals…
“It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” – Chaos Theory If you Google for long enough, you may have the good fortune of coming…
Before Hurricane Irene hit the eastern shores of the United States, one tuning in to CNN may have expected the apocalypse to rain down. Reporters in bright red or yellow rain jackets stood in cities along the shores of the…
Greetings, and congratulations on choosing Laurier Brantford for your post-secondary career. This special edition of The Sputnik is all yours, guided to help introduce you to both the City of Brantford as well as the Laurier Brantford campus. Using our…
It has been over a month since I first set foot on Ghanaian soil and, I must say, my urge to do everything fast has been greatly reduced. Thanks to the laid-back pace at which virtually everything is done here,…
(The following is a sarcasm-laden satirical piece inspired by Binyawanga Wainaina’s “How to Write about Africa,” published in Granta 92) When you picture Brantford, confine your imagination to the immediate downtown area. Do not entertain the possibility that there might…