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Written By Brett McCracken, May 10th, 2025   https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sinners-christian-movie-review/        The movie Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler ( Black Panther ), recently hit the box office with a smash. It is already the highest grossing original film in many years. It takes from genres such as southern gothic, gangster films, vampire horror and black cinema making it an obvious original and well-made film. Sinners has sparked a prominent conversation in the black christian community about how the film integrates and challenges christianity. Right from the get-go and until through the post credit scenes, Sinners grapples with church,   spirituality, and moral ideas about evil, sin, and temptation. But how are these viewed in the film? What's Ryans Cooglers  position on christianity? Sinners foundation is largely based upon temptation, where invitations and deception lure people towards the devil.  The film follows t ...

 Written by Douglas Todd, December 14, 2024  https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/metro-vancouver-has-longest-transit-trip-times-in-north-america-plus-other-congestion-problems Citizens of vancouver have noticed the travel times in Vancouver have doubled in the recent decades. Many residents are seriously considering leaving Metro Vancouver, and moving to a small town somewhere on Vancouver island. Many media outlets coming directly from the government have failed to provide meaningful numbers on the changing transit commuting times over the past 10 years. A private company called Movie, a commuter app, says that Greater Vancouver has the longest transit trips in North America. The average time spent on one transit journey is 60 minutes. The calculated time the typical     Vancouver passenger will spend riding buses and skytrains in their entire life is one year and 8 months. Also in Canada, Toronto has the second worst travel time in North America with 55 min...

 Written by Rosa Saba, March 20, 2025  https://spartanshield.org/48058/feature/2007-birth-spike-fuels-rigorous-competition-for-college-admissions/      The class of 2025 seniors are one of the largest graduating classes in history due to the baby boom in 2007. This causes an increased amount of university and college applications across the globe. In America, 4.7 million people will be 17 years old in 2024 and 2025. This is in increase from the previous 4.3 and 4.4 million in previous years. This directly affects those who are planning to apply to competitive universities. Due to the increase of the student body, there are more students who are qualified. “It’s difficult to be accepted into a college when there are so many competitors,” said senior Nadia Meeks. “Especially as an Asian woman, since affirmative action is gone, I’m held to higher standards and have a lower chance of getting accepted, which is alarming and frightening.” However, this increase is onl...

 Written by Kim Dolan, May 1st, 2025  https://vancouversun.com/news/court-appearance-kai-ji-adam-loaccused-lapu-lapu-killer-friday The night of Saturday, April 26th was a tragic night for the Vancouver filipino community. The lapu lapu festival is a festival created to celebrate a filipino national hero who fought against Spanish colonization. British Columbia is  home to a significant Filipino community, with 172,915 people of Filipino origin living in British Columbia in 2021, about 3.46% of the population. The lapu lapu festival on Sunday  was well attended  and is high spirts. Nearing the end of the night, a black SUV drove  100km an hour into a crowd of people, killing  11 and leaving 20 others injured. The  accused killer, Kai-ji Adam Lo, will make his next appearance in court Friday afternoon. Lo had previous encounters with the police for mental health issues, and a had called the police station the night before because  he had though...

 Written by  Angela Yang, April 24, 2025,  https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/justin-bieber-responds-to-rumors-after-coachella-rcna202832        In the article, Angela writes about the struggles of A-list pop star Justin Bieber faces in his day-to-day life. Justin, for the first time, address's the concerns that lie around his mental health and calling out "people who are mean and hurtful". Justin recently attended Coachella, a huge music festival in palm desert, and was caught smoking while dancing. Fans expressed concern, which Bieber then responded to with: “They treat me like a-- out here, but if I remember that I am flawed too and god forgave me, It helps me to stop feeling better than those people who are mean and hurtful,” Bieber, 31, wrote. “Because when I’m really honest I can be mean and hurtful too.” Bieber, who rose to fame at a very young age has been open about how his early fame has affected him, with anger  i...