Tear me apart: criticizing Excalibur's design

The Associated Collegiate Press convention in Los Angeles offered ‘Excal’ staffers plenty of seminars, but also a chance to have our newspaper critiqued by industry professionals. We were ready to hear the worst of it– but didn’t.

The search for the earth look-alike

A whopping 1,235 possible planets, including five Earth-size planets capable of supporting liquid water: a startling discovery, presented at a widely anticipated NASA news conference Feb. 2. That’s the day the space agency announced its planet-hunting Kepler telescope had gained traction and delivered astronomers a significant boon – the first planets ever discovered that could harbour life.

YRT dodges another strike

York region narrowly avoided the possibility of yet another strike Feb. 21 as the York Region Transit (YRT) union proposed a strike for the second time