BY: AILEEN ZANGOUEI Alison Brettschneider, a native New Yorker who now currently lives in California, is a successful fashion business owner. Her boutique has multiple locations and is called 25 Park, which is also the name of her social media…
Meet the elusive and nomadic hyena men of Nigeria
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Like a scene from the Jungle Book, men in Nigeria can be seen walking around the streets with hyenas, and hence have been coined the ‘Hyena Men.’ And it’s not only hyenas that they handle. Pythons and…
Prisoners write letters of advice to their younger selves and the result is striking
The factors that make up the horror that is the American prison system includes the ineptitude of the poorly underfunded public defenders. It is estimated that public defenders take on 1000 clients per year (more than 3 per day, every…
Hunting for sport is animal abuse: how is it still legal?
BY RHIANN MOORE It seems like a natural assumption that shooting a wild animal for no good reason is not a cool thing to do anymore. Tragically, however, it is still not only legal, but encouraged as a way to…
The SPARCC initiative plans to reverse urban inequality
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT The mainstream discussion surrounding health care tends to centre around the very obvious related issues: emergency room wait times, access to health insurance, wait lists for life-saving procedures, and so on. There’s no doubt that these are…
How is horse racing still a thing?
BY RHIANN MOORE Animal Aid, with the assistance of cosmetic superheroes Lush, have set out to end horse racing in Britain. Through their campaign they are hoping to expose the salacious details of Thoroughbred deaths, approximately 200 horses a year,…
An armed man on campus is making students nervous in Ohio, so we spoke to the guy with the gun
BY MIROSLAV TOMOSKI The students at the University of Cincinnati (UC) are no strangers to violence. In recent years they have experienced a number of incidents including the use of firearms and other weapons on or around their campus. So…
Activists are giving the middle finger to the law by continuing to feed homeless people
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Photos via CL Tampa / Anthony Martino. I think we can all generally agree that giving back to those who have less than you is considered a good deed. Whether it be in the form of a…
GMO Plant In Argentina Is Being Dismantled Thanks To Protestors
From the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, the March On Washington in the twentieth century to the current Dakota Access Pipeline protests in the twenty first century, the power of individuals standing up for what they believe in has…
Child marriage is still a big problem – even in the west
BY: AISHA ILYAD Each year, 15 Million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 28 every minute. One every two Seconds. As many as 7.84 million (65 per cent) of married children are female, reinforcing the fact…
This outdoor retailer is donating 100% of its Black Friday sales to grassroots environmental groups
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ahh Black Friday; a day where Americans bludgeon the shit out of strangers for a discount on a flat screen, less than 24 hours after they give thanks for everything they have. For years Black Friday has been regarded…
It’s time to stop making women undergo virginity testing for higher education
BY: AISHA ILYAD Being a virgin is apparently a condition for acceptance for girls looking to attend university in Egypt. Elhamy Agina, an Egyptian member of parliament, wants all Egyptian girls to undergo compulsory “virginity tests” prior to recieving admission…
Poland rejects a restrictive abortion ban after thousands of women go on strike
BY: AISHA ILYAD “My body, my right.” This was the slogan of Polish Women who went on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortion in their country. These anti-abortion protestors took to the streets of Warsaw on…
The Gold and the Golpe: The hectic nature of hosting the Olympics while impeaching your president
BY: ADAM THRUSH August 2016 will go down as one of the most memorable in Brazilian history. South America’s first ever Olympics were hosted in Rio de Janeiro and, on the last day of the month, their president was impeached…
Sitka Clothing Company protects the planet before profits
BY: VANESSA NIGRO Founded on Canada’s beautiful West Coast in 2002, Sitka Clothing Company promotes a life lived through sustainability and finding balance between industrialization and nature. “We decided to name the company Sitka after the Sitka spruce tree that…