Cancer June 22 – July 23 Cancer, the crab, is the fourth sign of the zodiac. Its element is water and it is a cardinal sign, which means it is a leader along with Aries, Libra, and Capricorn. Cancer is the sign of fertility. Cancerians have a need to nurture; it is part of who… Read more »
Community-Based Management Versus Backroom Deals This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the growing privatization of the clam industry in southwest Nova Scotia. The federal government has long been in the habit of quickly sliding smelly deals under Maritimers? noses in the hopes that they won’t catch a whiff until It’s too late… Read more »
Community-Based Management Versus Backroom Deals This is the first in a two-part series on the growing privatization of the clam industry in southwest Nova Scotia. If you’ve driven along the Fundy shores of southwestern Nova Scotia at low tide you may have seen a solitary figure or two lurking at the outer edge of a… Read more »
Management at Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit: Restoration or a Distant Relative? I recently had the chance to visit two sites in Toronto where ecological restoration work is being carried out–High Park’s black oak savannah and the Leslie Street Spit. The environmental management approaches at these sites are quite different, and provide an interesting opportunity for… Read more »
Take an early bird peek at one of AU’s new courses, Environmental Change in A Global Context (ENVS 243)! This course, which is also cross-listed as GLST 243, is tentatively scheduled to officially open to student registration within the next few weeks. Through an exciting blend of written and online media, ENVS 243 enables students… Read more »
I often feel that I should be more active in following world politics; that being fed the information passively leaves me vulnerable and uninformed. So, I resolved to read the political pieces in the national newspapers, but found them rife with bipartisan personal opinion or spin. Not my idea of being informed. Turning to the… Read more »
I know I’m not the only one who practically salivates when this warm weather starts to roll around. It’s finally time for those winter dreams to spring to life. Poring over seed catalogues, following the river’s winding path on the topo map, researching the best time to strike out on that section of the trail… Read more »
Are you interested in Communication Studies and Mass Media? Athabasca University’s Communications Studies program has expanded to include a new communications course, Introduction to Mass Media (CMNS 201), to its list of ever-growing course offerings. According to course professor Dr. Evelyn Ellerman, CMNS 201 is the ?first of two introductory courses for our proposed Bachelor… Read more »
Dispersing from point A to point B, particularly when point A is hundreds of kilometres from point B, is probably not something one would normally consider plants to be capable of. Often when we think of mobility, we think in terms of the individual–the Canada goose migrating south, the white-tailed deer leaving a wooded area… Read more »
As a student at Mount Royal College completing the last year of my Psychology degree at Athabasca University, I recently attended an AU workshop called “Career as a Process and Not an Event.” Organized by Anita Spence, our Academic Advisor, and facilitated by Shannon Yates, a tutor in AU’s Centre for Psychology, this workshop left… Read more »