Beyond “Not in My Backyard”: A rural response to the toxic drug emergency Tues, May 9, 10:00 to 11:30 am MDT Online Hosted by AU Communities in Transition news.athabascau.ca/events/beyond-not-in-my-backyard-a-rural-response-to-the-toxic-drug-emergency/ Register through above link Library Chat Tues, May 9, 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… Read more »
From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge. Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »
Technical glitches have a fateful feel to them: it’s like Murphy’s Law (where anything that can go wrong will go wrong) meets the original Jurassic Park (where a chaos principle ensures that a teensy bugaboo leads to an infinite regress of larger and larger foul-ups). So it was that when AU last month conducted an… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group Worth the wait. When course textbooks for three courses didn’t show up by the first day of study, a student wondered how long they usually take. After a number of responses were posted, including a few mini-rants about etexts, the original poster commented that the parcel with the textbooks arrived later that… Read more »
I recently attended a performance hosted by Candlelight, a live, multi-sensory musical concert that is hosted across the world. Local musicians showcase their interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces. For example, I attended a classical quartet featuring Bach, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. If you’re someone who hasn’t been to a classical music quartet before, the idea… Read more »
When I was in high school, there was a repertory movie house where you could see a double bill of classic or notable older films for just a couple of dollars. My friends and I would go there pretty often on Friday and Saturday nights, whenever we either weren’t working dishwashing, waitering or busing dishes… Read more »
Yip, yip, YOWL! In golf, trying too many practice putts can induce a case of the yips where a player will yelp in frustration as their motor skills cease to co-operate with the brain’s signals to engage in a gentle, repetitive, swinging motion. Like a dog whose paw has momentarily been trod on, the howl… Read more »
People’s appeal towards conspiracy theories starts with the tin foil hat. No, seriously, it does. Hear me out, the hat goes on your head, and your head encompasses your brain, and the brain is what is responsible for a person’s ability to figure things out. At some point in our life, every one of us… Read more »
Over the past few years, some prominent voices have chosen to take the pop culture route and shame ‘fatness’, but also to speak about people who they know nothing about except for the fact that they may be “fat”. One would expect such comments to come from individuals that are trying to become “influencers” and… Read more »
Sir Thomas Carlyle said, “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” Similarly, a loving heart is the beginning of all dreams. And we’ve got one day, each day, to come closer to realizing all our goals and dreams. So, how do we fit our hopes and aspirations into each passing day? First, let… Read more »