Warm winds may gust on the prairies, but here, the wind brings discussions of literature. Tension ran high as Mrs. Reynolds’ Grade 9 English class carried out a heated Canadian style debate over...[more]

Last Sunday, Mr. Collis’ current and past English 11 AP classes competed in an annual ‘Collisal’ event: the Nerd Olympics. Consisting of various activities, the Nerd Olympics are designed to...[more]

I’ve said “goodbye” a thousand times before: at the end of phone conversations and summer camp, after visits with distant relatives, to holiday strangers who’d become friends, and to my familiar home...[more]

I don’t like to, but I will admit it: I’ve grown old. No longer do I gaze upon senior students in awe, wondering what they were like back in the day. I am now one of those students. I tell tales to...[more]

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright There will always be a part of me in the wilderness. There will always be a part of the wilderness in me. For me, nature represents...[more]

We arrive to whitewashed dorm rooms, blank canvases for us to make our own. It seems like it was months ago, not years, that I first arrived here, welcomed by the smiling faces of strangers soon to...[more]

According to the now notoriously mathematically inept Harold Camping, the world was supposed to end on May 21st, 2011. He got it wrong…again. Perhaps Mr. Camping and his rapture-seeking followers...[more]

On Saturday, June 11th, in the tradition of ancient Greek athletic competitions, Brentwood hosted its annual interhouse track and field meet, with everyone arriving eager to begin the battle for...[more]

So you think you can dance? No, no, I don’t mean that hormonal-driven ‘grinding’ or the weird gangster hand-gestures or that thing that kids call hip-hop. I mean the awe-inducing, inspiring, and...[more]

From Brentwood, St. Catharines seems a long way away. It is. Over 4000 kilometers span the continent from our school in Mill Bay to Henley Island, the epicenter of the 66th Canadian Secondary Schools...[more]