Kara VanGrootheest

On March 29, poet Phil Hall joined a group of Redeemer students and professors for the last poetry reading for the 2011/2012 academic year.

Ottawa recently announced the dismissal of the penny as part of Canadian currency. This announcement came from Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister.

Have you recently missed an episode of your favourite show on TV, but were saved from total confusion during the next episode by a quick online viewing? Perhaps you recently had a strong urge to hear a particular song, and YouTube came to the rescue.

Now imagine a world where that wasn't possible.

Social networks have emerged, peaked and died throughout the years. This trend began with 6degrees.com in 1997, a network that allowed people to send messages and post items on a “bulletin board.” In the last 15 years, many different social networks have emerged – Friendster, MySpace and Flickr, to name a few. Each of these networks had a peak point, where they were the most well used site for internet social life; however, it only took a few short years, or even months, before they were replaced by the next up and coming social network.

A shooting in 2007 Virginia Tech led to lawsuits and preventative measures. Now, after 5 years of preparation and false alarms, a shooting once again shakes the core of the student body of Virginia Tech.

Beginning with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and now spreading across the States, Canada and around the Western World, a protest based on class envy seems to be growing.