This week marks the 6th annual Waste Reduction Week in Canada. Since 2001, Waste Reduction Week in Canada has been organized by various non-governmental, and not for profit environmental groups across the country. The goal of Waste Reduction Week is to educate Canadians on waste statistics and provide helpful tips for reducing waste.
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In Which the First Empire in Human History Comes and Goes
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THE STORY YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS TRUE. ONLY THE UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT OUR FUNDING.
JOE [voice-over]: This is the desert. Also called the Fertile Crescent. Now there’s nothing but sand as far as the [...]
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The sun stretches across sky,
a long yawn over the horizon,
and drinks from the river wide.
The wind is gone again, on a whim,
chasing rain and cloud.
Trees wade in the water, their bellies
now exposed, rubbed black with current.
Awaiting the yearly floods, they huddle
under [...]
THIRD WORLD DEBT
Innumerable afflictions plague the world’s poor and disadvantaged. The financial debt owed by underdeveloped countries to international financial institutions, commercial and regional development banks, as well as to the governments of developed countries, is undoubtedly one of the greatest of these hardships, and certainly a tremendous force working against the eradication of global poverty. Due [...]
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I could sense her behind the door. She was cowering and exposed on the highly perched examining room table. Her head was lowered in shame, her eyes were wet with horror. As I swung the door open I saw what I had sensed. I wanted to be a good doctor for her, brimming with [...]
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Over the course of the past century, mean global temperatures increased by .6 degrees C. This change seems slight but isn’t: in the winter of 1905 my great-grandfather, a coppersmith, installed the roof on a new reef-point [...]
I’m sitting in an “office” constructed entirely of small logs, discarded bottles, and a sawdust mixture to pack the dome together. The outside has been smoothed and sanded down while the interior is surrounded by edges of the logs. You can’t tell because personal photographs, memorable cartoons, and post-it notes act like colourful wallpaper. An [...]
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“This is the last speech I shall make at any of these international conferences in my role as United Nations Envoy. I’m glad, for obvious Canadian reasons, that it comes in Toronto. But I’m equally pleased because this has been a good conference, covering an extraordinary range of ground, and [...]
From “Birds of America”, PLATE 62.–MALE AND FEMALE. ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA, Linn. [Ectopistes migratorius.]
Introduction: The Wild Pigeon of North America
The Passenger Pigeon, or, as it is usually named in America, the Wild Pigeon, moves with extreme rapidity, propelling itself by quickly repeated flaps of the wings, which it brings more or less near to [...]
This piece won the 1st prize in the Non-UBC category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
It started when Rob and I were joking about the medieval arrow slits he’d shown me along the back wall of his house, the one that conveniently enough faced the newly-paved road that snaked up the hillside below. [...]
This piece won the 1st prize in the Academic category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
Just the other week I attended a provocative poetry recital. The poet: Bud Osborn, previously unknown to me, a denizen of Vancouver’s notorious downtown East End. His project: alleviating the woes of his neighborhood’s many indigents and drug [...]
This piece was the 1st prize winner in the Creative Category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
I met a coelacanth at a bar once. I saw him from a distance at first; I wasn’t sure which one of us had come in before the other. He was sitting alone at the bar, looking at [...]
This piece was the 2nd prize winner in the Creative Category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
Mon: Mon means “my” in French, used when the article is masculine. Mon, ma, mes. Mon serves as an incorrect pronunciation of “man,” the substandard expression used by a conquered people. Said the Scot to the Rastafarian, “What [...]
This piece won 2nd prize in the Academic category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
**The names of individuals mentioned in this paper have been altered to protect their identity.**
Coming out of a Stephen Lewis lecture earlier this year, I felt a strange mixture of despair and determination. His message was clear, AIDS is [...]
WOMEN’S LOCAL KNOWLEDGE – TUMBLING BARRIERS?
This piece won 2nd prize in the General Public category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
“Hunger is a complex crisis. To solve it we must address the interconnected challenges of agriculture; health; nutrition; adverse and unfair market conditions; weak infrastructure and environmental degradation.” – Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
News of hunger, famine, drought [...]
This piece won 3rd prize in the General Public category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
In New Delhi’s Connaught Place the buildings go up to ten stories tall. High above the promenade, at about story eight, are signs advertising big brand names in sharp electric font. On some buildings there are even video screens, [...]
This piece was the 3rd prize winner in the Creative Category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
I knew her well. Her name was Busie – short for “Busisiwe”. She was the “B” in black, bananas, and baobab trees. Her face was solemn, tired: a face that had been tried upon, worn upon, frowned [...]
ETHNIC CONFLICT IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
This piece was the 3rd prize winner in the Academic Category of the 1st Terry Writing Challenge.
A city is an amazing place full of diversity, a coming together of many different individuals and their traditions, beliefs, and ways of life. With so many diverse cultures inhabiting the same geographical area – sharing space, government, [...]
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