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By Jennifer Bowman

Radical homemakers. It’s a combination of stay-at-home parents, not unlike the stay-at-home parents in the beginning of the century, and environmentally conscious people. It’s a way of making a housewife sound more glamorous and giving stay-at-home dad a whole new meaning. In a way, it’s going back to Canadian roots and the hard work and family values that defined the country’s infancy. Ironically, so much of it seems exactly what feminists were trying to get away from. Now more and more people are embracing it.

By Andrew Mendler

With the NHL talking about possible rule changes over the past few days there is one thing that the NHL left out.

I would like the NHL to look at using the instigator penalty more to eliminate fixed fights from the game. I really think that there is no room in the game for players who strictly fight. The game has gotten a lot faster and teams need players who can also put the puck in the net.

By Katrina Geenevasen

To some girls, it’s a way to look beautiful. To others, it’s a way to relax. To doctor’s, it’s just plain stupidity.

Tanning has become an increasingly popular pastime of today’s youth. In fact,

“Tanorexia” is the term being used to describe teens’ addiction to tanning beds.

By Trish Allison

If you thought the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics were bad, than you should see the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Paralympics… oh wait, you can’t because CTV decided not to broadcast Friday evening’s opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Winter Games live across the country. But, if you had just found yourself a little patience you could have watched them Saturday afternoon, when CTV intended to air the taping. The event was shown live on CTV BC, but that only allowed digital subscribers in Canada to tune in. Sir Philip Craven, the president of the International Paralympic Committee said “It absolutely smacks in the face of one of our four values, which is equality”. Craven welcomed the decision to broadcast the ceremonies live in the British Columbia, but he said it was still not good enough.

By Beverly Wellington

The ridiculous amount of plastic, paper and cellophane that encases our merchandise is enough to drive one absolutely bonkers. Say hello to a little thing called “overpackaging.”

Formidable author and Globe and Mail columnist, Leah McLaren mentions in her article “I’m suffering from overpackaging rage,” a term in which most people can relate: “wrap-rage-aholic.”

By James Bowler

In a recent opinion piece posted in the Washington Post, one Ada M. Fisher talks about how the health care reform bill is a danger to Americans. She questions if the ailments of people who continue to smoke and eat unhealthy food should be covered by the people who keep themselves healthy. She also states that parents who have children with genetic defects and continue to have children knowing that these spawn may continue to have genetic defects should not be on society’s tab.

By Leah Vandenberg

The alleged budget given by OSAP provides students with $7.50 a day to eat. 4 undergrad university students are trying to prove how that isn’t enough. They are going to blog for three weeks, along with two videos per week to document their experience. With this, it is hoped to raise the student loan ceilings.

By Katrina Geenevasen

Retail giant Wal-Mart is being criticized for lowering the price of a black ballerina Barbie doll.

Was this a bad idea? So far, the move has been raising quite the controversy.

The price was cut nearly in half compared to the white version because it didn’t sell as well.

By Trish Allison

The most complicated part of a 14-year olds life should be deciding what to wear to the next school dance not what to name their children. British author, Hilary Mantel believes otherwise, as in motherhood should at the top of the “to do” list. Mantel says Western society’s shame of teen motherhood is hypocritical and misogynistic (meaning hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women). Mantel also says that young women’s instincts to reproduce are suppressed in the interests of society’s timetable, a time table she believes was set by and for men. Jezebel.com (a blog aimed at women’s interests) said Mantel’s argument sidesteps all developmental and financial logic and paints the idea of having babies at 14 as a sensible decision- but is it?

By Liam Larsen

The Conservative MP for Edmonton East, Peter Goldring has raised the ire of colleagues, constituents and foes alike with his rambling tirade about Louis Riel.

By James Bowler

Stephen Harper recommended the review of Canada’s National Anthem yesterday from “In all our sons command” to “Thou dost in us command”, the original line from Canada’s National Anthem; well, not really.

In 1908 Robert Weir penned this newer form of the national anthem that Canadians stand and sing to today, with the exception of “In all thy sons command”, Weir wrote, “Thou dost in us command”.

By Nicole Kleinsteuber

Valerie Castonguay, 25, died in May 2008 after a routine nose procedure called septorhinoplasty.

Danielle Roy and Gerard Castonguay said Wednesday they plan to file a civil law suit against the Rene Crepeau private on Seaforth Avenue in Montreal, where Valerie’s surgery was performed.

By Dan Boot

In the wake of recent economic events, things all around us are changing. Everyone is looking to cut costs and The Pioneer is no exception.

Newspapers everywhere have been slashing jobs, reducing their page numbers, and, in an effort to save money and gain readership, putting their news online.

Stars of the ceremony stand in complete embarrassment and disappointment. Foreign faces laugh. Shop glass breaks. Canadians shake their heads, booing ensues. “Sure” winners choke. A young adult dies.

This is what Vancouver 2010 has been so far – for the pessimists and foreign publications.

By Jennifer Bowmann

John Babcock’s death marks the end of an era.

The last soldier to serve in the Great War died on Thursday, Jan. 18. He was 109.

His death not only marks the last of a generation that served in the First World War, but the end of a generation that worked its way through the appearance of the first automobiles, the industrial age, the space age, the nuclear age, and all the ages in between. His generation saw Canada develop its own international identity. They saw the revolutionizing and globalizing of the world.