TomTom recently dubbed Vancouver as North America’s second-most congested city (after Los Angeles), and therefore Canada’s most congested city, in terms of vehicular traffic. I believe this conclusion is flawed. Read about why, and some ideas I have to reducing congestion within Metro Vancouver.

How do we define what’s male or female today? It is exactly this dilemma in society that disqualified 23-year old transgender Jenna Talackova from the Miss Universe Canada pageant.

The topic of ‘asexuality’ greatly intrigued me after reflecting on a guest lecture in my Sociology of Sexualities class (SOCI 369) about anti-homophobia and sex education in schools; the speaker mentioned that because sex and sexual desires are emphasized as the norm in sex education, discourse around asexuality (valuing romantic but not sexual relationships) is often ignored. I was [...]

I believe many of you have experienced or witnessed bullying in your life. The feeling of being bullied or the inability  to help the bullied kid really sucks. Although most schools have rules that punishes the act of bullying, however, bullying happens in many different forms and places that are usually unsupervised. With so many [...]

With all the joys of keeping with traditional Filipino gift giving, problems with luggage limits and customs inspections often arise.