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Invasion of the Pod Parents!

I’ve been chasing my kids around the indoor playground for close to an hour now. They scream with glee as I mutate into some hideous half-dad/half-alien beast, uttering sinister, monotone, Martian clichés. Needless to say, I affect the obligatory hunch and limp so as to afford them ample time to flee in terror. In my… Read more »

Education News – Cracking the crunch: What the U.S. financial crisis means for students

OTTAWA (CUP) ? Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has called the current financial crisis gripping the global economy a ?financial Pearl Harbor,? and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has described it as a ?once-in-a-century event.? But figuring out what exactly has happened and how it affects students at Canadian universities is, like the problem… Read more »

The 2008 Voice Writing Contest!

Write for The Voice and win money for your education! The Voice is launching its 2008 writing contest, with categories for both fiction and non-fiction. We’ve got over $1,000 in prizes to give away: one winner in each category will receive a scholarship of one Athabasca University undergraduate course. Please read the contest rules and… Read more »

On the Hill – Oh, Danny Boy

Love him or hate him, you’ve got to admit that Premier Danny Williams has a certain self-confidence; the apparent conviction that his means always justify the end because he’s standing up for the little guy (in this case, Newfoundland and Labrador). And when the Conservatives won another minority in this latest federal election, Williams was… Read more »

International News Desk – At Home: Liberals deny Dion to step down – In Foreign News: Famed Lipizzaner riding school finally allows females

At Home: Liberals deny Dion to step down Stephen Harper may have just won another minority government, but It’s the Liberal Party that seems to be attracting the most attention in the post-election fallout. The buzz around Ottawa is that Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, who led the party to a loss of 19 seats in… Read more »

AU Press – AU Press Publication Nominated for International Prize

AU Press may only have been launched a mere five months ago, but this fledgling open-access press is already making its mark. Its first offering, The Importance of Being Monogamous by Sarah Carter, has been named to the long list for the Cundill International Prize in History. This prestigious international prize was established at McGill… Read more »

From Where I Sit – Say No to Chicken Little

Two days before the federal election, the world was in a state of disbelief. Few could have imagined the global political and financial storm that has unfolded with a vengeance in the last few weeks. Pundits and pollsters spent the early days of the campaign predicting the size of the Conservative majority. Then, the prospect… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – T@b, Thugs at Bay

CD: T@b, Thugs at Bay Release date: December 2007 Mad Geniuses of the New Millennium I’m almost on the brink of being On the verge of being Very nearly close To bordering on the edge Of doing what I really wanna do. T@b, from ?On the Verge,? Thugs at Bay The first time I heard… Read more »