Today we are including a story that we’ve never had to include before. It’s a one-time thing, and we are proud to be able to include it in our very last issue. It’s the story of another newspaper — a student newspaper in Windsor, Ontario known as the Lance. We received communication earlier today (Monday, April 8, 2013) that the University of Windsor Student Alliance (UWSA) has issued a stipulation that the Lance can no longer print paper editions and must move to an online-only format. This has dire consequences …

This will be the last editorial I will ever write as the Editor-in-Chief of the Meliorist. It’s been an interesting two years, with lots of bumps and bruises, ups and downs, and plenty of learning experiences. I’ve cherished, hated, loved, adored, resented, regretted, and enjoyed these experiences in turn, but overall the effect has been a positive one.
I’ve re-written this editorial in my head about a hundred times over the past couple of weeks. I keep changing my mind about what I want to say, what message I will leave …

Disclaimer: this editorial is entirely sarcastic and satire. It in no way illustrates or represents the actual thoughts of either myself or the staff of the Meliorist.
With half the free world attentive to the Steubenville, OH trial of two teenaged athletes (with promising futures) for the rape of a 16-year-old drunk girl at a house party, the words “rape culture” have been thrown around quite a bit. Some people are offended by the inference that modern Canadian and American societies would indulge in rape culture — while others deny …

With the announcement of the federal budget last Thursday and the surrounding rhetoric, average Canadians may find themselves surrounded by varying opinions on how the Canadian economy is being handled. If you listen at all to the party members of the official oppositions both provincially and federally, you’d know that they are disappointed (to put it mildly) with the direction the budgets are taking their respective regions.
Provincially we are going backwards: broken promises by the Conservatives have many people in Alberta wondering if there’s anything Premier Alison Redford said during …

Last week the Alberta Government released the budget for the upcoming fiscal year that announced cuts to funding for major programs. It announced massive cuts to the post-secondary education funding, to the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) which effectively eliminated 3,000 summer employment jobs for university and college students province-wide. Additionally, the budget for electronic monitoring of criminal offenders was slashed, meaning that in the future the province will not have enough money to properly monitor those offenders who are not incarcerated. Essentially, offenders will now either have to go …