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"If someone does something nice for you, we, as humans, are wired to reciprocate. And I would say it’s completely exploitive, so wasteful.”

AMS Executive Candidates Hello Queen's, We are Team RTZ and we are vying for your vote to be elected as the Executive for the Alma Mater Society. Respectively, we have worked in various branches of student involvement since the beginning of our time at Queen’s. With our vast experience, we believe we have what it takes to significantly improve the Alma Mater Society.   We are honest, and we promise to speak candidly to you. Unlike many candidates in the past, our motives for running as Executive of the AMS stem from shared frustration over the inaction of the AMS this year. Over the past ...

Kid volunteers: Raising children who give back Your kids are making their wish lists and coveting stuff, and the true spirit of the holidays is being usurped by the toy catalogue. Are you inadvertently raising little consumers who constantly compare what they have and don’t have? Here’s how to teach them empathy and the value of giving back. For the last couple of years, Toronto mom Salma Syed and her kids, Maarya, 12, Ibraheem, eight, and Sameeha, six, have been part of Spreading Salam, a group created to help kids volunteer and give back. The kid volunteers socialize a bit with thei...