Canadian students aged 30 or under can now register for the Canada Student Service Grant. The details of the grant program were announced June 25, and registration is open until August 21, 2020. The grant program is one of several relief measures for students first announced in April. Since many traditional summer job opportunities for… Read more »
With worldwide media attention focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as on social movements addressing historical and present-day injustices, provincial and federal governments have slowly begun introducing laws that scaled back hard-earned rights gained in the years before the pandemic. Examples of this are the recently voted down Bill 207 — Conscience Rights (Health… Read more »
A quick announcement, there will be no new Voice Magazine or articles next week, as I’ll be taking a brief holiday. So this issue is all you get until July 17. Take your time, savour it, and spend some time outside (and socially distanced) before the next phase of our apolalypse hit. Will it be… Read more »
If you’re looking to get into a course this summer, you may want to pre-purchase it right now, because as of Monday, June 29, the cost is going to go up by 2% if you use Mastercard or Visa to pay for your courses. If you typically purchase your courses with American Express, you will… Read more »
For children who attend urban schools, especially those living in poverty and those that come from diverse cultural backgrounds, having an effective teacher can be a matter of life and death. These children often have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school. These are the high stakes involved… Read more »
Misrepresentative and often dehumanizing single narratives are often seen in literature, film, art, and media. These stories are frequently one-dimensional and often-inaccurate portrayals of communities, often resulting in mistreatment and violence from society and internalized oppression and diminished self-worth for those affected. In her immensely popular 2009 TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story,… Read more »
Summer has come, and, at least in Calgary, it’s brought with it a bunch of new writers to The Voice Magazine. New writers are always exciting for me, even though they mean more work at first, but bringing in those new perspectives, and helping writers grow their abilities as they help to grow The Voice… Read more »
One of the most versatile yet underutilized items in the kitchen is the ice cream scooper. As someone who has consumed less than four litres of ice cream a year, I never knew what to do with my ice cream scooper at home. The few times in the year where I would use this niche… Read more »
