Dear Barb: I hope you can help me with my problem. I grew up in a very dysfunctional family, where everyone was arguing, fighting, not speaking for years, holding grudges, the whole gambit. About 20 years ago I decided to try to change things and bring my family together. Initially it seemed some of the… Read more »
This update is provided to The Voice by AUSU. Contact services@ausu.org with questions. Undergraduate Abstract Submissions Welcome at GSRC The Athabasca University Graduate Students’ Association and the Faculty of Graduate Studies are excited to announce the call for abstracts for the 2021 Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC), which will take place virtually on October 1st and 2nd. Current AU graduate students and… Read more »
The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation has been declared as a new statutory holiday to be celebrated on September 30th by the federal government. This has been known unofficially as orange shirt day. This means that all federal workers will have the day off, with pay, purportedly to reflect on the legacy of the… Read more »
Scholarship name: James Lee Foundation Scholarship Sponsored by: James Lee Foundation Deadline: September 15, 2021 Potential payout: $5000 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be Canadian, over the age of 16, and be emerging (non-professional) creative talent. “All fields of creativity related to the advertising community will be considered (e.g. writers, art directors, film makers, recording artists,… Read more »
What does an existentialist seagull caw? Pour q’uoi!?! (Why, they seem to ask.) Why are we here now, and how? That’s the backdrop to our learning as we seek to understand the world and our place in it. Our personal growth is part and parcel with this journey. The search for our meaning of life… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group When you’re keen to write exams. A student asks whether an exam can be written before the course’s official start date; the answer is a whomping no—exams can’t be accessed until the first day of the course. Discord Bait and switch? Less than two weeks before a course’s end date, a SPAN… Read more »
I’m not disciplined with money. By no means. I have more debt than Santa Claus on Boxing Day. But I am very disciplined with work, and, during my undergrad, I was highly disciplined with studies. So I have some tips to share about discipline. To illustrate my discipline, such that you may consider my advice… Read more »
“Some say that our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth, so that one’s destiny intervenes with many others. It is the one thing that we search for, or fight to change. Some never find it. … Read more »
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) estimates potential permanent closures of up to 222,000 small and medium-sized businesses, depending on how the situation evolves. That’s 21 percent of all Canadian businesses. The corresponding job losses would range between 962,000 and 2,951,000 Canadian workers. While most of us are struggling financially… Read more »
