Opinion pitches Oct 17

Mid-October Pitches!

October 17, 2018

Happy mid-October!

Heyo, all! Hope you all are making it through midterms. AND HAPPY LEGALIZATION! If you're smoking up on campus, make sure to use the 4 designated spots as outlined by the university.I got a fair amount of pitches here, so please take some from me! As always, the deadline for these pitches is Friday at 5pm! Email me if you wanna snag one of these!

Supreme Court rules feds do not have to consult Indigenous groups when making laws

Many Indigenous groups are upset by this

, as they say it will mean the government won't have to consult Indigenous peoples when making decisions related to treaty rights and land claims and such.

The court said that while it does mean that the government doesn't necessarily have to consult Indigenous groups everytime a law is being made, it doesn't mean that they won't be under the obligation to treat Indigenous voices with respect.

U of A student wrongly stopped for suspected U-Pass forgery

Transit officers apparently aggressively ripped the student's U-Pass off their OneCard after accusing it of being a

. The student says that they felt they were racially profiled by the officers, and will likely be filing a complaint.

Was Bill Clinton's Lewinsky affair an 'abuse of power'?

Hilary Clinton said recently that the relationship between her husband and Monica Lewinsky "

," a characterization that goes against what Lewinsky described the relationship as.

Edmonton chapter of far-right Soldiers of Odin group disbands (and rebrands)

Partially in response to the media attention the Edmonton SOO have gotten after attending the UCP gathering, they have

as the "Canadian Infidels," which is arguably a way worse name as far as optics are concerned. They haven't gone away, though.

Nestlé, Tim Hortons named Canada's top plastic polluters

Same pitch as last week.

An environmental pitch for y'all. Greenpeace and others did an

of trash clean-ups they performed to see who's producing the most stuff that ends up thrown away. They also suggested that recyclability of packaging won't solve the issue of plastics pollution.