Montréalités Living

By: Amber Bressi

By: Ben KerrA new gym can be a lot like going to a new school for the first day. You're not quite sure what to expect and you're very afraid of the people there. After some getting used to though, the new school eventually becomes "your" school, likewise with a gym.

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When I go to a wedding, I'm thrilled to bask in the happiness of the event. The flowers, the dancing and the smiles on the couple's faces when they see each other down the aisle. Everything looks absolutely perfect. But, how much does it cost for a wedding day to be "perfect"? There is a trend starting where weddings are costing almost as much as a mortgage and couples are putting themselves in debt so their special day can be the best. This issue is important because a special day should not be so stressful. It should be a day of celebration, not a balance statement of 20,000 dollars.

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How interested would you be in kicking back and watching a movie if I were to tell you that it:

A) is a documentary,
B) has no dialogue (and the scraps of spoken language that can be heard aren't subtitled),
C) is not narrated, and
D) will last for more than an hour ?

Some of you might already be hooked--and some of you might be feeling your 'fight-or-flight' instinct kicking in nice and strong. But before those of you who belong to this second group give in to the overwhelming desire to flee, take a deep breath and read on. It's possible that you may yet change your minds.

By Meghan Denison

Marriages were thought to have emerged so families and clans could come together and prevent severe feuding, which was very common. Viking wedding festivities were a lengthy affair involving much rowdy feasting, music and drunkenness, which depending on the wealth of the families, could last up to a month!

The guests got a good deal. The festivities for free and they received a gift as well for their attendance and did not have to reciprocate on this generosity.

Wedding dresses were often made of white wool, quite simple in appearance, and perhaps the bride had made it herself in anticipation of the big day. Although the dress itself was traditionally simple, there was also a highly complicated knot tied in the sash holding it up, to tease the groom and test his patience on the wedding night (Jack).

Meghan Denison

During the summer months, between May and September, I work as a pit crewmember for my uncle. It's a lot of fun and I have the opportunity to meet a lot of people. Everyone is nice and all of the racers bond as a family. I decided to interview the coolest racecar driver I know: Nathan Blok.

Nathan Blok was born on April 27th, 1994 and is currently racing in Formula 1600 with my uncle. This year he came first in the Formula 1600 Quebec championship. He also finished on the podium at almost every single race, coming in first, second or third. I've hung out with him on multiple occasions at the races and he always has a smile on his face. At the age of six years old, actually two days past his birthday, his ten-year-old cousin decided to take him go-karting and enrolled him in the race. Nathan won.

Flickr, 2012

Although the federal government of Canada permits abortion, members of the Canadian public should become knowledgeable enough about abortion to make a decision for themselves on whether or not abortion should be permissible. The following report will examine abortion's political history, fetuses' developmental stages, and current abortion methods.

Figure 1. There is continuous development from conception onward.
Curious Expedition; Young skeletons at different stages of development,
Flickr, 26 Jan. 2009. Web. 27 Sept. 2011

Significant biological and observational evidence indicates that human life begins at conception. If the unborn are alive, equal worth should be attributed to them as to newborns. However, the Canadian government does not legally protect these unborn individuals. In the same way, proponents of abortion assess the worth of a fetuses' life by measures that are not accepted as determiners of a newborn child's worth, such as lack of physical or cognitive ability. It is imperative that the standards for measuring human value and worthiness of legal protection are applied consistently; otherwise, decisions made concerning the rights of the unborn will be built on faulty rationalizations.