My sheltered experience as a first-year made me doubt my potential to have any value as a Gael.

When the government decides to spend a bunch of cash on new crime legislation, it may indeed be bad governance — but it’s fantastic politics.

It’s the responsibility of young Canadians to understand the value of voting, but it’s also the responsibility of parliamentarians and pundits to promote the importance of engaging in the democratic process

Queen’s Bands will return in January as a reinvigorated and recalibrated organization

Prime Minister Harper has advocated Senate reform for more than 15 years. It’s a position I took when seeking the national Progressive Conservative leadership in 1998, and it’s one being echoed now as we continue to debate the issue.

The current media coverage regarding the suspension of BFA issions for 2012-13 is not the publicity I had in mind.

Until crime TV shows stop portraying live lineups as the gold standard for identification procedures, it’s likely the public will continue to believe this outdated method is still widely in use.

Queen’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is leading the the way amongst Canadian engineering institutions with a focus on design, collaboration and hands-on learning.

Queen’s should take a cue from new educational initiatives that are changing the way we learn.

While the recent mental health campaign Queen’s Wears Green is well-intentioned, it fails to address the negative stigma that often isolates those with mental illness.

Queen’s needs to rethink the way it delivers engineering education, or risk becoming irrelevant.

Canada and Queen’s have reached a fork in the road when it comes to climate change policy.

A recent alcohol advertising campaign by Canadian brand James Ready that uses lawn signs, posters and giveaways is troubling.

Declining youth voter turnout isn’t a new trend. But if we keep teaching young voters that the issues they care about won’t be addressed, we can expect them to stay away.