OPINION: Boycotting the Olympic games, does it ever work?
Boycotts stem back to 1936 when Berlin was set to host the summer games, but those games proceeded with no issue.
Boycotts stem back to 1936 when Berlin was set to host the summer games, but those games proceeded with no issue.
In what turned out to be an almost two-hour Q and A session, Chan confronted students with realities in China, trade secrets of the media business and truths about what waits for them once they graduate. Some of those truths were not so comfortable.
Spoke reporter Keegan Lavigne says the country’s bench strength is now world class, thanks to the growing popularity of the sport at home.
BY MEGHAN WEATHERALL Another year, another slaughter as Taiji, Japan refuses to put an end to the annual dolphin hunt. This massacre has been going on for years and sparked the documentary The Cove. The film, created by Ric O’Barry, follows the annual gathering of fishermen who herd dolphins into an isolated cove by confusing the animal’s sonar communication. Once the dolphins are trapped, fishermen round them up into a net … Continued
BY IAN MCBRIDE Some Conestoga degree students will have the opportunity of a lifetime when they travel to China and Japan in May 2015. And, it gets better. The two-week trip is a new course that meets one of their elective requirements. Taking place from May 1-17, the course, titled, cultural, historical and economical overview of Japan and China, builds on last year’s expedition to England and France. Students will … Continued