Book: A Call to Action Author: Jimmy Carter “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” – Matthew 10:16 NIV “Violence against women is the most prevalent and the most hidden injustice in our world today.” – Jim Wallis, as quoted in A… Read more »
Susan Malmstrom is an artist specializing in digitally produced photography. She grew up in California, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her life’s work manifests a sense of wonder, an insatiable curiosity, a love of memorabilia, an obsession… Read more »
Dear Barb: My parents were married for 30 years before my mother passed away a few years ago. My dad recently remarried a woman he had been seeing for about a year. My dad is a young man and I didn’t expect him to be alone for the rest of his life. The problem is… Read more »
There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants than for you to fly through graduate studies, get nominated for a Nobel Prize, and commit to memory the first 40,001 digits of pi. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your… Read more »
Are you new to AU? You might be waiting for your first course to begin or perhaps you’ve taken a few and are ready to immerse yourself in a program. With many courses ahead of you and years of study, It’s sometimes overwhelming to decide where to begin. If you’ve never taken university courses before,… Read more »
Have you ever had the odd sensation of someone watching you, even when there’s nobody there? The good news is that it’s probably not a ghost. The bad news is, you’re probably under surveillance by one of the growing number of cameras that track our every move?even in our own homes. Are they a way… Read more »
Summer is a time for fun and games, and whether you’re out playing tag with the kids or hiding indoors with Monopoly, chances are you really want to make sure you’re following correct usage. Or is that only me? Kidding aside, I’m frequently asked how to style names of games?italics or roman, quote marks or… Read more »
Here we are ’celebrating’ another long Heritage Day weekend in Alberta. The temperature for the past week or so has been far too much for many of us. We prairie kids don’t do that well when the humidity pushes the “feels like” temperature toward the forties. For those of us stuck home working, there is… Read more »
At Home: First World Student Day Passes with Little Fanfare On August 15th, PIE News posted a story about Languages Canada inaugural World Student Day. If you haven’t heard about it until now, you’re not alone, as the event happened on August 8th, and it took a full week for PIE News, a site focussed… Read more »
