Author Archives: Dominique Charles

“Going to the Chapel and we’re going to get married…”

“Going to the Chapel and we’re going to get married…”

There’s a new phenomenon coming to the world, it has nothing to do with style crazes or a new cutting edge drug, it’s something simple and easy to identify, a ring, more specifically a spouse. Yasmeen Hassan and her husband Abdallah Sadig are in the early stages of the rest of their lives. At 20

Ball for life

It seems that the Kodiaks not only have championship winning players on the girls’ basketball team but a strong contender and big heart in Jinan, a second-year guard from an unsuspecting place with an even more inspiring story. Jinan Daqqa hails from Palestine where she was born, a mere 9,581 km from where she now

Thank you, Lady Bird

It’s awards season and with awards season comes my favourite night of the year, The Oscars. It’s the one night a year that truly good movies get talked about, watching the Oscars I don’t have to suffer through stories about Marvel Studio movies or listen to my guy friends talk about how Pirates of the

A community comes together to remember those who’ve been persecuted

“Living life as trans is never easy, we are continually having to defend and justify our own existence.” This quote was taken from a speech by Jayce Wilson, a transgender woman using she/her pronouns who attended Lethbridge’s Transgender day of remembrance on Nov. 20. A day in honour of transgender people from all over the

SHE. – Do You(Terus)

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -Hillary Clinton As a female, I’ve seen it all. I’ve been catcalled, poked and prodded, grabbed at in dingy bars and told to smile when I was having a severe allergic reaction. As

#YOUTOO

Till it happens to you, you don’t know how it feels How it feels Till it happens to you, you won’t know It won’t be real No, it won’t be real Won’t know how it feels -Lady Gaga, The Hunting Ground   In Australia in the ’60s, people heralded the time of “free love” and

A night in the newsroom

I sit here writing this in a newsroom, an actual newsroom. The lights above me buzz in time with my heartbeat and the collective feeling within the room is one of absolute gold. As a child, you see the beat of a hummingbird’s wings on those nature commercials in between your favorite shows. They’re set

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