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Did You Know? – AU Library E-Books

Are you looking for one more reference to take that essay from a B to an A? Need to double check a quotation or page number, but you’ve already returned your books in the mail? Then AU library e-books just might help you find what You’re looking for. Along with all the great resources available… Read more »

Editorial – A Game of Chance

Appearances can be deceiving, especially when it comes to age. It seems to be the one thing we’d all like to change, and sometimes take drastic steps to do so. Whether we’re changing our hair, our clothes, our faces, or even the way we act, there’s no shortage of ways to turn back the clock… Read more »

Careers – Consider a Career as an Occupational Hygienist

Consider a Career as an Occupational Hygienist What is occupational hygiene? Occupational Hygiene, or Industrial Hygiene, according to the International Occupational Hygiene Association, is the ?discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating, and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large.? Occupational hygienists… Read more »

International News Desk – At Home: Canada ranks tops for cancer survival rates – In Foreign News: Militant actions curb polio vaccine program

At Home: Canada ranks tops for cancer survival rates In spite of the increasingly dismal stories about the state of Canadian health care, it seems this country is still one of the best places to be when it comes to surviving certain types of cancer. A recent international study, the CONCORD study, compared survival rates… Read more »

Pages – New Fiction Release for Voice Editor

Along with her duties as Managing Editor with The Voice, Sandra Livingston writes in a variety of genres?suspense, literary fiction, and young adult. Recently, one of her novels was acquired by Avalon Books, New York, and published in April. Falwell’s Honor is a historical romance set in the turbulent days of Tudor England as the… Read more »

Did You Know? – AU Library E-Books

Are you looking for one more reference to take that essay from a B to an A? Need to double check a quotation or page number, but you’ve already returned your books in the mail? Then AU library e-books just might help you find what You’re looking for. Along with all the great resources available… Read more »

AU Profiles – Carol Poszgai

STUDENT: Carol Poszgai For working mom Carol Poszgai, obtaining a bachelor’s degree is so important that She’s made time to do so even while raising three toddlers. Carol, now in her final semester of Athabasca University’s Human Resources and Labour Relations post-diploma program, explains how her long-term goals are helping her combat the temptation to… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – An Inconvenient Truth

DVD: An Inconvenient Truth Released: 2006 Directed by David Guggenheim ?When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow; For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.? Traditional American hymn In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road… Read more »