Let’s role-play: it’s September and you’re a second-year education student specializing in English at Mount Saint Vincent University. You’ve got to find a practice teaching placement in a few months. But by the time you start your practicum, students from Presque Isle and Fort Kent in Maine have snatched up the positions you wanted—they grabbed […]
Ruth Mestechkin
Posted inArts + Music
Shades of grey
One morning, at 5am, Brenda Rooney and her husband Robert propped up a video camera in Alexandra Township, South Africa, to film a documentary. But there was a hitch: They needed their car to be in a safe place, but they didn’t want it peeking out of the shots. Then, one woman, who was a […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Shifty work
Sarah Densmore stands up, fingers gripping the sides of a piece of fluorescent-pink bristol board. Thick black marker-printed letters command, “MAKE IT RIGHT 2 STAFF AT NIGHT.” She sets it down, and picks up another: “HONK FOR SAFER LABOUR STANDARDS.” “That one got the most response,” she says.These signs are remnants from a rally that […]