Canada, as I’m sure You’re aware, is turning 150 years old this Canada Day. I found it strange, however, that while everybody knows of this sesquicentennial, as they insist on calling it just to make sure we have our spell-checkers on, the actual celebration of it seems pretty low-key. Sure, there are the government sponsored… Read more »
Without covering the entire spectrum of diets ranging from the paleo diet (aka the caveman diet), to the Atkins diet (focusing on carbohydrate intake), there’s three predominant nutritional ideologies we should all be aware of, regardless of whether we abide by them. Let’s start with vegetarianism. Simple enough, vegetarians are just human herbivores, right? Not… Read more »
Summer has arrived, and many students?even online ones?will be on the move. You might be travelling to an exotic destination, visiting family, or exploring Canada coast-to-coast. If you’re heading east or west, you might cross one or more time zones. Time zone-hopping can prompt that other traveller’s scourge: jet lag. Jet lag is a disruption… Read more »
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As difficult as blue sky and sunshine makes it to focus, cool rainy days have the opposite effect. For this reason I love rainy days as much as sunny days?they’re both beautiful in their own way. The grey rainy days mean I get lots of work done. I can lock myself away in the office… Read more »
Cooking for the busy university student is an art in itself. As artists, we often look for the mundane and use it for inspiration. You needn’t look far for these sources of inspiration, some of the simplest cooking hacks are at your fingertips. Rice Cooker Meals Don’t be deceived by the name. Rice-cookers are more… Read more »
I first started writing about music on an iMac that sat on an ancient table with chipping royal blue paint. The window above it looked out onto a young birch spinney that hummed with the activity of minute creatures occasionally shocked into silence by the lumbering of larger ones. My black lab, Tsinuk, was always… Read more »
It’s now officially summer, and although the transition was marked with rainy days here in Calgary, I’m sure some of you had some good summer sun. I was reminded by an article this week that sometimes during the summer we get those stretches of bad weather, but they never really seem to figure very clearly… Read more »
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” – Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, and pianist (1918-1990). If Leonard Bernstein, quoted above, is correct, then AU is destined to achieve great things. Last week, AU made public the Independent Third-Party Review of Athabasca University. The report, compiled by… Read more »
“Karl exemplifies all that an editor should be: a mentor, approachable, on-point with language and grammar, and above all, genuinely interested in and supportive of his writers.” – from nomination for PWAC Editor of the Year. The Voice Magazine’s own Karl Low has been selected by the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) as 2017… Read more »