As noted last week, I’ve always managed a heavy schedule and task-load, and even though I had been apprehensive about whether I would be able to cope with the demands of my job once I had started Master’s studies, I did not find it that hard. Well, at least not for the first few months…. Read more »
VANCOUVER (CUP) — Although research shows that public awareness of the risks of AIDS is in decline, the disease continues to infect and kill thousands of people everyday, speakers told a crowd gathered to mark World AIDS Day in Vancouver. About 100 participants lit candles in memory of those lost to the disease outside the… Read more »
Students protest tuition fee hikes in Vancouver as part of a National Day of Action in February. BURNABY, B.C. (CUP) — While the provincial government makes room for more students at British Columbia’s post-secondary schools, it’s simultaneously making it more difficult for students to afford an education, student leaders say. “We believe that the real… Read more »
After three years of managing a virtually impossible schedule that has included holding a full-time job, maintaining full-time student status, fulfilling a nearly full-time commitment to the Athabasca University Students’ Union, writing weekly for The Voice, and taking care of my family obligations – during the past few weeks I have come closer to burnout… Read more »
Nicholas Brisson, president of the Fédération des Étudiantes Universitaires du Québec MONTREAL (CUP) — Deception, anger and exasperation. Those were the words post-secondary education groups in Quebec used yesterday to describe their reaction to the provincial budget released Tuesday by Finance Minister Yves Séguin. The budget does little to alleviate the $375-million shortfall in the… Read more »
Several months ago, after years of toiling away at my Bachelor’s Degree with a major in English, and waitressing to pay for it all, I realised that I was finally in the home stretch of my post-secondary education. I had just five classes to go before I was to be unleashed upon the world, yet,… Read more »
It has now been one month since I’ve seen Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ. As a Catholic, I was very moved by the movie itself, but, even more intriguing are the many reviews of the movie that have been appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country. Even the recent review by John… Read more »
I try not to make my work the subject of too much of my writing. I feel that I should branch out, be more creative, pull information from outside sources. But we just get so many fascinating creatures in that I cannot help but be inspired by their miraculous adaptations, morphology and behaviours. Besides, only… Read more »
Dearly beloved we are gathered here today a man, a woman, and me my words, their words, so few words – – to alter two lives forever promises made for a life together – – for better or worse At our first meeting I ask the questions about bride and groom, attendants, music, process, flower… Read more »
