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Appeared in print and online for the Ryersonian, Sept. 19, 2012 Korean pop singer Park Jae-Sang, better known as Psy, is YouTube’s latest international sensation, and on campus, Ryerson University’s Korean Students Association is enjoying its own Gangnam-style popularity. This year RUKSA members showcased their club at the orientation week campus groups fair to the tune […]
Appeared online and in print in the Ryersonian, Sept. 12, 2012 As Canadians struggle to recover from the recession, tuition costs across the country continue to rise, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Numbers from Statistics Canada show that Canadian full-time undergraduate students are paying $5,581 on average for the […]
Appeared online for the Globe and Mail, May 24, 2012 The taxi driver charged with second-degree murder in the fatal collision with a skateboarder on Toronto’s King Street East was released Thursday on $200,000 bail. In front of a well-attended hearing, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer released Adib Ibrahim under strict conditions that he not leave his home […]
Appeared online and in print for the Globe and Mail, May 20, 2012 When comedic actor Paul O’Sullivan took to the stage his colleagues would frequently try and get him to sing – not only because he had a good voice, but because he could sing a risqué love song, make it gut-wrenchingly hilarious, and get […]
Published online in the Globe and Mail, May 19, 2012 The ornate downtown cathedral was preparing for the inauguration of Montreal’s new Archbishop, but the private investigators waiting outside weren’t there for the ceremony. They were waiting to serve court papers to the former leader of St. Catharines’ Roman Catholic church, a man who resigned and […]
Published online for the Globe and Mail, May 17, 2012 The TTC bus driver who was involved in an accident that sent nine passengers to hospital Thursday morning has been charged with careless driving. Emergency response crews were called shortly after 9 a.m. to Bay Street near Wellesley Street after a bus braked suddenly, throwing passengers […]
Appeared online for the Globe and Mail, May 13, 2012 Transportation Safety Board investigators reached a remote location in northern Saskatchewan Sunday afternoon to gather evidence from a mid-air collision of two single-engine planes. All five people aboard both aircraft were killed in the Saturday morning accident. One of the planes – a four-seat Piper PA-28 that […]
Pitched and reported this original story. Published online and in print in the Globe and Mail, May 10, 2012 The crowd cheered as the lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies called 11-year-old Harrison Lee to the stage in Whistler, B.C., last summer. The pint-sized seventh-grader stood centre stage, hair slicked to the side and hands clasped […]
Appeared online and in print for the Ryersonian, Feb. 15, 2012 Matt Buie’s hometown is so small that it has no official name. Instead, he tells people that he’s from Duntroon, Ont., which is the closest officially recognized address – a hamlet consisting of fewer than 200 residents, a single intersection and an “extremely white” community. […]
Ishani Nath 