This week, our feature article is one where Natalia Iwanek digs into the human rights issues faced by seasonal and temporary foreign workers who come into Canada, especially now, with COVID-19 affecting, well, everything. This seemed especially timely given the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in the Cargill meat plant.  Cargill hires a large number of… Read more »

Students need extra dough as badly as chocolate bars need chocolate.  Extra dough is the difference between chomping on day-old macaroni and ketchup—versus dining on Steak Neptune. Yet, the economy has shrunk with COVID-19.  So, what can students do to earn extra cash?  Write, of course!  Under a time-crunch, students can make extra dough writing… Read more »

Time is most definitely not consistently equivalent.  Time is relative, mercurial, capricious.  It is linked to and calibrated by our state of mind and our visceral awareness of the world, where we are currently placed on the psychological spectrum between trauma and ecstasy.  A split second poised at the top of a roller coaster, for… Read more »

As spring’s fervid grasp permits life to flourish, we at AU might take a moment to record our progress as we arrive at this season of rebirth.  Foremost among methods of self-germination may, for we studious AU students, be the act of writing itself.  Each essay has affected us as a dialectic between the course… Read more »

This past week I had chosen to make food from Brazil.  My main dish was supposed to be a stew with a variety of different meats in it, but for whatever reason it was difficult to find the meats at my local grocery store and a related large chain store.  I was still able to… Read more »

Mona Louise Parsons was the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War.  Parsons and a few of her closest friends formed a resistance group with the intention of hiding Allied airmen who had survived being shot down over Holland.  Parsons and her millionaire husband built a secret… Read more »

Scholarship name:  Student Essay Contest Sponsored by:  Fraser Institute Deadline:  June 1, 2020 Potential payout:  $500 to $1500 Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be students (high school, undergrad, or grad) studying in Canada, or Canadian students studying abroad. What’s required:  A completed online application form, along with an essay of 1000 to 1500 words exploring the… Read more »

RefWorks Migration Webinar Tue, Apr 28, 2:00 to 3:00 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library library.athabascau.ca/orientations.html No pre-registration necessary; access through above link Talk to a Librarian Drop-In Session Wed, Apr 29, 9:00 to 9:30 am MDT Online Hosted by AU Library news.athabascau.ca/events/talk-to-a-librarian-drop-in-session-april29 No pre-registration necessary; access through above link MBA for Executives Webinar… Read more »

AthaU Facebook Group Thomas expresses concern that he hasn’t had a confirmation for an exam request with an early May write date; an AU rep responds that AU is working through the backlog of requests in order of write date.  Miranda wonders if bathroom breaks are permitted during ProctorU exams; responders say they’ve been allowed…. Read more »

National Volunteer Week (April 19 to 25) has almost slipped by, but it deserves to be marked this year and every year. They don’t grow on trees, you know!  Tammy Lee Moore shows the volunteer spirit—and learns a valuable lesson about root vegetables.  “I had imagined lovely trailing plants with interspersed potatoes growing on them:… Read more »