Ballot blues: why so many youth aren’t voting
The Federal Faux-Pas
Country-wide, there is an epidemic of young people who just aren’t voting.
In a 2013 study, Marc Maryand, Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer, found...
Stop the student presses? The struggle for funding and space for student newspapers
Campus newspapers are the voice of students. Sometimes that voice gets shushed, but rarely is it shut up for good.
In July 2015, the Imprint,...
A brief history of campus press at Carleton
Boxers take hits, football players take hits, and apparently so do newspapers.
Many campus media outlets across Canada have been in jeopardy over the years,...
Student publications are forums for experimentation, risk-taking says CUP executive
Ryan Macfarlane, the national executive of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a non-profit co-operative student newswire service, spoke with the Charlatan about the importance of...
Frosh week: how it has changed, why it’s good, and what its problems are
If you rolled up to Queen’s University on move-in day five years ago, your car would be greeted by purple-skinned engineering students surrounding your...
