From the editor: Welcome!
The Argus is almost half a century old, and older than our parent corporation – the Lakehead University Student Union.
View ArticleThe rising cost of education
There’s a lot of talk in the upcoming provincial elections about tuition costs in Ontario. It’s no secret that Ontarians pay the highest tuition in Canada – about $6,300 per year – which is more than a...
View ArticleThis editorial is libelous
Inevitably, every week I will find an e-mail in by inbox, a voicemail on my phone, or a person in the office that will accuse us of most publications’ worst fears: libel.
View ArticleRunning for an election usually means trying
Last Wednesday evening I was at the Study Coffeehouse to watch the provincial candidates do a talk and a short Q&A. The Liberal, NDP, PC, and Green parties were there, represented by both their...
View ArticleIt matters, even if you aren’t a “professional”
There’s a point in all of our lives when we take on something new and it becomes more than a hobby.
View ArticleSome people just stole your money
Last Tuesday was an interesting day for The Argus, as we came to discover that many of our papers–about 500–had gone missing. We only print about three thousand, so having such a large number of...
View ArticleWhy I will not buy your game unless it’s on Steam
Digital distribution has been the way to go for at least half a decade. Earlier, it may have been a bit strange to have all of your content on the cloud, and not possess physical media for games that...
View ArticleMaking disingenuous scientific claims is beyond dangerous
Last week, Baroness Susan Greenfield made statements at a conference in England where she claimed that there is evidence that computer games leave children with dementia.
View ArticleGrown meat may be the future in food sustainability
With all this talk about sustainability, it’s apropos that just a couple of days ago, Mark Post, a biomedical engineering scientist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, announced that he...
View ArticleIt’s been a good year…
This will be the last editorial that I write for The Argus as editor-in-chief. Starting Friday of last week (this article went to print on Thursday), I have accepted a position on the LUSU board of...
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