Is the pursuit of higher education taking a toll?

Wed, March 5, 2008

By RANDY RICHMOND, SUN MEDIA AND NEWS SERVICES

Students attend an engineering class yesterday at the University of Western Ontario. (Morris Lamont, Sun Media)

Your kids may not be smarter than you, but chances are they have more education, or will.

In London, as in the rest of Ontario, more people aged 25 to 34 have university degrees than those over 55.

Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains

They’re ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It’s cheaper that way. And the trees and the animals and the flooding? It may not be pretty, but we’ve got all those dishwashers to run

Feb 23, 2008 04:30 AM
Catherine Porter
Environment Reporter

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA–When you flick on the lights this evening, think of Kayford Mountain. Or what was Kayford Mountain, but now is a sprawling, muddy, trembling construction site 100 metres below Larry Gibson’s home.

Three years ago, Gibson hunted wild boar here, picked gooseberries and peaches, and sat under the shade of white oaks and hickories so thick he couldn’t see the sky.

“Now, you can see the sky below your feet,” Gibson says.

Bars join forces to fight rowdies

Wed, January 16, 2008
New organization represents downtown watering holes
By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIA

London’s downtown bar owners have banded together help quell problems with rowdy customers in the core.

And the recently formed London Bar and Entertainment Association is also looking for help from police, London Transit and the city.

“We’re trying to create a safe and vibrant atmosphere for everyone in the core,” said president Mark Serre, manager at GT’s.

Group to protest ‘homophobic’ transplant ruling

It all began when Canadian Blood Services banned gay men from donating blood.
By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA
Wed, January 16, 2008

A London gay activist group is ramping up its campaign against Canadian Blood Services and hospital organ transplant programs for restrictions on donations from men who have sex with men.

Salmonella could forfeit student’s year

As the number of salmonella cases linked to a university eatery grows, one father is seeking legal advice over the effect of the illness on his daughter.

“She is no shape to go back. It knocked her for a loop,” said the Toronto father, who asked not to be identified.

Does mummified baby have living cousin?

Does mummified baby have living cousin?
RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR

Sep 24, 2007 04:30 AM
Francine Kopun
Feature Writer

Mummified baby was newborn boy
It was a newborn boy that was laid to rest, wrapped in a blanket and newspaper dated 1925, beneath the floorboards of a Toronto home, an autopsy and X-rays have confirmed.

IntimateRider helps people with disabilities have better sex

Jennifer Parks
Sun Media
June 28, 2007

Imagine never having sex again.

“When you lose something, you don’t know what it’s worth until it’s gone” Brian Chavez, paraplegic

Not because you can’t find a willing partner, or because the desire isn’t there. But because sex, due to disability or limited mobility, is too physically painful to relax and enjoy it, and each attempt is, thus, mental pummeling to your self-concept as a sexual being.

Tougher trash laws likely

Tougher trash laws likely
Mon, July 16, 2007
By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIA

Chances are Londoners will be hauling less trash to the curb starting this fall — if not on their own, then by edict.

And there may be tougher rules to come as the city moves to reduce the mountain of trash sent to its landfill.

The ‘Spoof’ - Labia Majora Carnage

Labia Majora Carnage [Printed in the "Spoof" edition which came out on the 30th of March]
by “Xavier”
Gazette Staff

Last night, local women hit the streets for the first ever Take Back the Nightie march.

The march was led by members of Western’s Women’s Issues Network, who, for the first time all year, left their circle in the University Community Centre, where witnesses claim they perform tribal dances and yell alienating slurs about pussies and cunts.

A Question…

Why is a man who has sex with a 12 year old girl branded a paedophile, but a woman who does the same is not?

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Sex with boy, 12, woman jailed 15 months

Mar 29, 2007 06:01 PM
Canadian Press

QUEBEC – A woman collapsed and burst into tears today after being sentenced to 15 months in jail for having sex with a 12-year-old boy.