Can you think of an important task you know you should be completing but you’re just not getting around to it? Maybe it’s an assignment, or some cleaning and organizing, or your workout. You want to do it, really, you do. Particular goals or dreams may even be tied to this task. You want that… Read more »
Lay down and go to sleep! A phrase we may have heard when we were children, or said it ourselves to our own restless toddlers. “Lay down and go to sleep!” But wait, is that right? Or is it “Lie down and go to sleep”? I flatter myself that I have a good grasp of… Read more »
I truly believe that sometimes the best teachers don’t come from books and the classroom but from family. In my case this is my dad’s cousin, who my sister and I affectionately call Aunt Margaret. When we were talking recently, she said something that finally cleared up a stumbling block in my perspective. We were… Read more »
Have you ever tried Googling yourself and paying attention to the search engine suggestions that pop up as you type? Well, that process is made possible by something known as algorithms, and it is what the digital world runs on. An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation and… Read more »
Policing is far too important and far too complicated to give credence to any idea that suggests that we get rid of the police or make it harder for the police to do their job. Law and order are the two things that allow for Canada to be Canada: the Canada that the world knows… Read more »
Is it anti-feminist to want to be a domestic goddess or a housewife? Not when we throw in skills like IT and home repair. And not when we don’t have to be female to gain the status, either. All we need is the intense desire to be the best homebody ever. But it’s not enough… Read more »
During graduate studies, I couldn’t find theories that sought cooperation or win-win situations for all parties. Instead, I found oppressor/victim theories that positioned me as a bitter victim. I also found something called Transcendentalism that touched on spirituality. It was out of vogue, so I couldn’t adopt it for my thesis; therefore, I didn’t entertain… Read more »
Imagine a former high-ranking RCMP officer who made his career working drug trafficking cases, money laundering cases, organized crime cases, now viewed as an expert on trans-national crime, proclaim that Canada was the staging ground for trans-national organized crime. Then imagine that same expert saying what was uncovered in B.C. with organized crime and money… Read more »
December unfurls and with it an advent of events, shopping, stress, and school. The frenzy carries excitement and consternation and messes of decoration and mind. Then there’s the matter of wrapping gifts; at AU we all probably have a study desk, a more comfortable clime for wrapping parcels than the floor. This could lead us… Read more »
Originating from Southeast Asia and abundant in countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia durian is a popular tropical fruit that many North Americans have never seen before. With its odd, spiky appearance, it looks almost alien to us. Its taste and looks are as strange as they come, and while some revere it as the… Read more »