Release date: October 30, 2007 Label: Curve Music Tracks: 11 Rating: 7 A collaboration between the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, and modern AFI might have produced a record very similar to this one released by Canadian quartet Grand:PM. The classical vocal and piano of front man Paul Mayer came together with the punk roots of… Read more »
Milca Sheney In this week’s profile we meet Milca Sheney, a Bachelor of Arts student living in northern Ontario. In addition to studying, Milca runs a home business and cares full-time for her 21-month-old daughter. She shares how planning and prioritizing allow her to manage her studies, family needs, and business contracts, while still leaving… Read more »
EDMONTON (CUP) — Post-secondary tuition in Alberta is now $430 above the national average according to Statistics Canada’s annual report. The report, released Oct. 18, showed that Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs will pay, on average, 2.8 per cent more in tuition fees in 2007-2008 than they did last year. Alberta tuition fees rose… Read more »
Response to AUSU’s open letter from Joy Romero, Chair, AU Governing Council Athabasca University Office of the Governing Council October 31, 2007 Dear AU Students: I am very pleased to learn, through your elected AUSU representatives, that you share our excitement and satisfaction at the recent Government of Alberta allocation of $30 million in capital… Read more »
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We do an incredible amount of things to our bodies, or at them, or with them, or put into them. Sometimes those things are humorous and harmless, sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they are pragmatic and necessary; and sometimes they’re just cultural motivations based on religion or prowess or aesthetics. The body is our permanent home… Read more »
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As the old saying goes, life imitates art. But the line between the two can be hazier than a Monet, as a debate over a Maori artifact proves. The item in question is a human head; specifically, the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior that has been part of a French museum’s collection since… Read more »
Release date: 2005 Label: Interscope Tracks: 12 Rating: 8 Social Code is a band from St. Albert, Alberta, and they’re one of the reasons I continue to look into and constantly praise our local music. They’ve taken a bit of punk inspiration, an ability to write enjoyable rock ballads, and turned this into a record… Read more »
Both the calendar and the thermometer tell us that winter is fast approaching. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler. The Sears Christmas catalogue has been out for months. The Costco tire sale is on. Mandarin oranges are in the stores. Sloughs and dugouts have a skim coat of frost some mornings. Josh Classen,… Read more »