Album: Maître d?école(link) Artist: Papa Wemba “I said to myself, I don’t want to play music only for Zaireans anymore. I am going to play music for all humanity.” – Papa Wemba The Inevitability of Musical Integration First forays into world music are often accompanied by a prejudiced sense that we’re listening to the music… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I will be attending my first year university in September and I am looking forward to it. My problem is that during my last year of high school I developed acne and I’m self-conscious. I tried to talk to my mom, but she just says It’s nothing and that it will go… Read more »
Michael Gauthier is a Montreal-based jazz musician who teaches guitar at the University of Montreal and at McGill University. His guitar sound is characterised by a warm, earthy bluesiness with the technical skill of a jazz master. A longtime fixture of the Montreal jazz scene, his memory houses a vast firsthand knowledge of the history… Read more »
How long do you stare at a blank screen, willing it to turn into a completed essay? I don’t know if there are any studies on this, but I’ll bet many students spend more time generating the enthusiasm to begin than they do writing. I used to be one of those students (and I still… Read more »
Whether you’re a student, writer, or teacher, time is something that always seems in unfortunately short supply. Questions about how to write about time, though, are abundant. You may be clear now on whether you should use long form instead of numerals, but what about the 24-hour clock? Time zones? Let’s spend a little time… Read more »
I firmly believe that to survive in this world we all need the right combination of basic intelligence and a healthy dose of common sense. We don’t have any say in how much of the first ingredient we’re blessed or cursed with. We simply hope our parents didn’t settle. Common sense is a bit trickier…. Read more »
In Alice in Wonderland, it’s pure fiction when the Walrus muses about sweeping up all the sand on the beach. What isn’t fiction, though, is incredible new technology that uses sand to power batteries. The breakthrough is good news for our energy-hungry world. But just as the Walrus gobbled up every last oyster in sight,… Read more »
So ask me how my vacation was. Go ahead. Ask. How was it? Crappy. Literally. I should explain. We have a cat. To be accurate, we have three cats and a dog, but this is about one specific cat of ours. All of our cats are rescues, and this little guy was originally brought in… Read more »
At Home: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program now Open. The 2014-2015 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships competition has begun. Scholarships worth $50,000 per year for up to three years are being given out to highly motivated and competitive students who plan on pursuing their doctoral degrees at a Canadian university. The program is open to Canadian… Read more »
