There’s a culture that exists, especially in a place like Canada, that you need to be consistently active in social justice. You must be working constantly to try and make the world a better place, or you’ll be labeled as a “bad person”. Whether that to yourself, peers, or colleagues. The biggest issue I find…
November 16th marked an important day for the student bodies of Western Canada High School and Central Memorial. This was a day of advocacy for the friends and classmates of many. As a matter of fact, I am a student attending Western Canada Highschool. Thus, I was able to attend the walkout firsthand. For this…
Privacy online is becoming a lost ideal. And pretty much everyone who uses the internet is under a gloom of surveillance—one that constantly records and monetizes their data. It’s no secret that privacy loss occurs all the time on the internet. And in many cases, it goes unnoticed. Users have come to acquiesce to the…
South Asia has had decades of abuse against women, but now things are starting to leak out into the world. News channels are reporting misogyny and abuse against women, and people have begun peacefully protesting for equal rights. For anyone who doesn’t know, on July 20, 2021, Noor Mukadam, the daughter of former Pakistani diplomat…
I’ve written a fair share of environmental posts, from deforestation to climate change and plastic pollution. But, in this blog post, I wanted to write about another environmental problem, one that is not so ‘well-known’ but is nevertheless very imminent in the world today: The Problem of Ocean Acidification. What is ocean acidification? How might…
As you may know, women in Canada do not receive equivalent pay compared to those of a male. Evidence shows that in Canada, women earn 84 cents to every $1 a male earns. For minority men and women, there is an even greater gap between their income and that of a white man’s in the…
COVID-19. At this point, it has gone on for WAYYYYYY too long. Everyone, or at least I am incredibly sick of it. I think everyone just wants a taste of normalcy and the closest, safest chance we have to achieving that it is the vaccine. Pros: Vaccines offer some sort of protection. Vaccines are safer…
Discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and many other factors has been a problem across the world for several years. Recently however, we have finally been able to see people come together to address this wide scale issue. There’s one area where I’m constantly seeing discrimination being normalized and joked about. This area is…
Some say that 2020 was the worst year of their lives. The pandemic, Australian bush fires, police aggression, giant murder wasps- you name it, 2020 had it. There is one thing about 2020, however, that has really only reared its ugly face recently: racism towards Asians. It is because people blame Asians for the…
Melting Polar Ice Caps. Rising World Temperatures. Ocean Acidification. These are just a few of the many pieces of evidence indicating climate change happening in our world today. Yet, we still often chose to neglect climate change and the serious consequences that it can cause in the future. This makes it of uttermost importance that…
As social media platforms like Instagram are expanding to take up a significant part of young people’s digital footprint and engagement, social media activism is also becoming more common. You can often see people reposting or sharing posts about certain issues they are passionate about or feel the need to inform others on. Social media…
For many people, sports are a crucial part of everyday life. When they gather such a wide global audience, it is important to recognize that professional athletes have very powerful voices. Their voices are heard by millions of people, so they have the ability to cause positive changes in society. Because of this, it is…
In our world, racism plays a large impact on our society. Racism is the belief that humans can be divided into a hierarchy on the basis of their race. This belief has has led to prejudice and discrimination that has manifested in not only individuals “but also through societies and institutions”(J. S. Frideres, 2006). Racism…
10 days from today; January 19th, 2019 will mark Calgary’s 3rd Annual Women’s March.
Around 2 am this morning, a gunman opened fire on clubgoers of Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The hate crime resulted in the loss of 50 lives and 53 more injured and hospitalized. This tragic and horrific event marks the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. With so many mourning the loss of innocent lives…