Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
This editorial should have been done sooner. It should have been done before today’s announcement by the Alberta government of the new measures that are being put in place. If it had, it would have been a fairly light frothy piece about some of the articles we have in this issue and some of the… 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 »
I’ve started to see a number of folks online asking why hold an election now, as yet another wave of COVID-19 seems to start gripping our nation. I think there are a lot of answers to this question. The first answer, of course, is because the governing political party saw the polls, has been looking… Read more »
So, it turns out Alberta is not seeing the expected reduction in hospitalizations from the number of cases, at least, according to the recent annoucement from Dr. Hinshaw, which is why she’s now putting a “pause” on some of the governments latest reduction in COVID-19 restrictions here in the province. If only somebody could have… Read more »
This morning I managed to catch the last little bit of the Women’s Olympic Gold-Medal Soccer (or Football as it’s known to most of the world) match. As you probably already know (spoiler!) we won. It was messy, and, at least in my completely untrained opinion, the Canadian team was more or less outclassed by… Read more »
So Alberta’s big announcement is that if you’ve been diagnosed with COVID, you no longer have to quarantine or self-isolate. Also, there will not be any testing for non-severe cases. Protests are already underway against this action, with many doctors calling it reckless or irresponsible. Supporters suggest that even though we’re seeing a rise in… Read more »
The 2020 Olympics have finally started in Japan. These Olympics enjoy widespread condemnation from the citizens of Japan, with some 83% not wanting them to be held, and 10,000 volunteers of the 80,000 total having quit before the games even started. Tokyo has declared that there will be no live audiences for the events as… Read more »
After a small hiccough, we’ve got the Council report for the June meeting, the last meeting before the by-election took place. It included the approval of AUSU’s new indigenous circle’s terms of reference and the equity, diversity, and inclusion policy, as AUSU continues to concentrate on becoming a more inclusive organization recognizing the breadth of… Read more »
So, it’s happened here in Alberta. We’re all opened up. Even in Calgary, the one city that was a little more recalcitrant about it has voted to drop the mask bylaw and let things open again. And yet, if all you went by was what you see at the stores, you wouldn’t know it. I… Read more »
You voted! They’ve been counted, and the winners announced, so congratulations to you, and congratulations to the six candidates, soon to officially be a big part of AUSU Council. Those candidates are Dur-E-Najaf Syed, Leah Campbell, Cassandra MacKay, Jesse Poriz, Meredith Charlton, and Eva Notter. You can read more about the positions of these candidates… Read more »