Ask anybody you know whether a parking ticket or any other ticket can be annulled after it gets issued. They will guarantee it is not, I say it is. Ask anybody you know to tell you how difficult it is to get reimbursed by a municipality as a result of their negligence. They will say… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I graduated a few years ago and was fortunate to find a decent job with good pay and benefits. I live a frugal lifestyle, so I have been able to save a lot of money. The problem is my family and friends think I should be spending more money on trips and… Read more »
Last night the one and only leader’s debate was held for the main contenders for the Alberta election, and the winner was the media. I don’t think there’s anybody else who could be said to have gained significantly from the entire affair, not the parties, not the leaders, and certainly not the viewers watching. Normally… Read more »
When I was growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, we had a particular name for the holiday Monday in May. We did not call it Victoria Day (although that was its official name), nor did we call it May Two-Four, like we often do now. We called it Firecracker Day. At that… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, May 23, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page The Pushkin Question or: Shouldn’t You Be Reading Shevchenko? An Evening with Writer in Residence Myrna Kostash Tues, May 23, 7:00 to 8:30 pm MDT St Albert Public… Read more »
How often does a baseball story play out like the speech Christopher Walken’s gave as Mike in the 2002 film Poolhall Junkies, where he talks about nature documentaries and lions, and how a bunch of jackals and hyenas decide to attack a lion that they perceive to be weak, before the lion munches them all… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group Hard deadline. A question that comes up regularly about how strict the 10th of the month course enrol deadline is. Sounds like there’s zero flex. Discord Getting prepared for outages. A discussion about potential power or internet disruptions produces tips on preparing course material for offline access. reddit The Good, the Bad,… Read more »
Can you think of an important task you know you should be completing but you’re just not getting around to it? Maybe it’s an assignment, or some cleaning and organizing, or your workout. You want to do it, really, you do. Particular goals or dreams may even be tied to this task. You want that… Read more »
Just now, the present seems like a gift that I would dearly love to return to its place of purchase for a full refund. Firstly, there is the ongoing apocalyptic layer cake of war, famine, plague, fire, flood, and Trump. On a smaller, though no less depressing, scale, smug grocery tycoons are wetting themselves laughing… Read more »
