The Protest Against SOPA and PIPA
by Brady Tighe - The Navigator
TIME magazine named "The Protestor" their person of the year in 2011. However, as we plough headlong into 2012, it seems that protesting isn't going to be a thing of 2011. How could it be? There are still just as many wrongs in the world as there were yesterday, probably more.
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All Good
Things Must
Come to an End
An interview with Public Eye
founder Sean Holman
by Joe Johnson - The Cascade (University of the Fraser Valley)
ABBOTSFORD (CUP)—Sean Holman is a journalist and the man behind Public Eye, a hard-hitting website dedicated to accountability and oversight.
In Nov., he was forced to suspend Public Eye's daily posts due to unsustainable costs associated with its operation. After eight years of reporting, filing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, and receiving leaked documents, he has posted over 6,000 stories—many of which were groundbreaking.
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Interview with Frank Moher:
by Brady Tighe - The Navigator
How many years have you worked as an instructor at VIU?
Twenty or so.
What other jobs, positions or titles have you held, either related or unrelated to campus?
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Mini
Vegan
Spinach and
Artichoke Quiche
by Char Tomlinson - Contributor
If you plan on making these for dinner (like I did), double the recipe and pour the filling into one large pie shell. Seriously. It's quite tedious to make these if you're not actually going to a party.
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Bahá'í
by Lua Boschman - Contributor
Nahid's (name changed) last email, now over a month old, describes her father's Iranian prison conditions inside of a two by three metre cell with two others: there is no access to fresh air and visiting privileges are slim with only four visits allowed in 94 days.
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