Response to AUSU’s open letter from Joy Romero, Chair, AU Governing Council Athabasca University Office of the Governing Council October 31, 2007 Dear AU Students: I am very pleased to learn, through your elected AUSU representatives, that you share our excitement and satisfaction at the recent Government of Alberta allocation of $30 million in capital… Read more »
Release date: June 6, 2007 Label: Curve Music Tracks: 12 Rating: 9 For anyone, like me, who is of the opinion that AFI lost the plot with their last record, let me introduce you to Burnthe8track. This four-piece Winnipeg band formed 10 years after AFI but their album Fear of Falling Skies seems to pick… Read more »
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DVD: Pan’s Labyrinth Release date: 2006 Written, produced, and directed by Guillermo del Toro Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil. A joint Mexican-Spanish production ?Magic does not exist. Not for you, me, or anyone else.? So says Carmen in response to her daughter Ofelia’s obsession with fairy tales. Having placed… Read more »
Response to AUSU’s open letter from Joy Romero, Chair, AU Governing Council Athabasca University Office of the Governing Council October 31, 2007 Dear AU Students: I am very pleased to learn, through your elected AUSU representatives, that you share our excitement and satisfaction at the recent Government of Alberta allocation of $30 million in capital… Read more »
Release date: October 30, 2007 Label: Curve Music Tracks: 11 Rating: 7 A collaboration between the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, and modern AFI might have produced a record very similar to this one released by Canadian quartet Grand:PM. The classical vocal and piano of front man Paul Mayer came together with the punk roots of… Read more »
On November 11 hundreds of thousands will gather at cenotaphs across the country. Military personnel, RCMP officers, and air cadets will march and form honour guards. Crowds of civilians and fewer and fewer veterans will attend. Politicians will lay wreaths and make speeches. The federal government will name an honorary mother to represent all mothers… Read more »
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Book: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Publication date: 2006 Publisher: Penguin Canada, Toronto, ON The novel as a literary form is a road map of social division, a means of exploring caste in order to transcend it, a field guide listing the tools needed to emerge from the social order with humanity intact, enhanced… Read more »
Response to AUSU’s open letter from Joy Romero, Chair, AU Governing Council Athabasca University Office of the Governing Council October 31, 2007 Dear AU Students: I am very pleased to learn, through your elected AUSU representatives, that you share our excitement and satisfaction at the recent Government of Alberta allocation of $30 million in capital… Read more »