The expected path of a young Canadian — work hard in high school, get into a good university, get your degree, get a job because of your degree — doesn't suit Emma Godmere, who questions the value of an expensive slip of paper. Give me life, she says.

There’s been a lot of debate recently about freedom of expression and the pros and cons of forcible removal. We’ve heard repeated calls of “what’s the point?” and “do you have any idea what you’re doing?” Even participants seem less sure of themselves day by day, and only seem to stick it out because of peer pressure.

In part one of her examination of life in a modern office, Allison Whalen O'Connor speaks for the new generation of office workers and bureaucrats, the generation that is replacing its parents like-for-like, with no updates to the office mentality to go with the fresh blood.

David Moscrop challenges the myth of the graduate school life of boundless leisure time by outlining the darker, tougher aspects of the undertaking. Maybe it's not all pizza, video games, and torturing undergrads after-all.

In today's TPN update, Jessie Hornby tries to shake off the September blues by celebrating surprise weddings and female spies. If only a combination of the two existed.

Six years after Canada afforded same-sex couples the right to legally marry, our social mores have remained intact. Despite some dramatic predictions from naysayers, Canadians have not started embracing bestiality and paedophilia, nor have heterosexual unions suffered (although, as the author points out, how gay marriage might have hurt conventional marriages is pretty unclear).