At Home: Cookie Monster It’s dinnertime, and the doorbell rings. Chances are It’s a kid with cookies, magazines, or treats for sale; scouting troops, ballet companies, hockey teams, and schools all depend on kid- (or parent-) driven fundraising for travelling expenses or just for reaching their budgetary goals. One Ontario man thought he’d do a… Read more »
Hate travelling this time of year? It could be worse: in ?80s classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Steve Martin goes through hell while attempting to get home for the holidays. Alternatively, you could avoid the pain of airline travel, train timetables, and traffic by relying on yourself to get you where you need to be…. Read more »
If vocabulary and word issues have you in a creative rut, consider checking out the online Visual Thesaurus. The innovative site doesn’t simply list synonyms, but instead creates colour-coded word maps with synonyms, antonyms, and slight variations in meaning laid out spatially in an ?intuitive interface.? In conjunction with the visual thesaurus-dictionary, Visual Thesaurus also… Read more »
At Home: Fire of Love Disaster can strike anywhere, anytime. And although wedding nightmares are common on sitcoms and soaps, they became a reality for one Nova Scotia couple when their wedding venue caught on fire. However, the pair had spent months preparing for their special day–and they weren’t about to let their plans go… Read more »
Some sources set November 18 as the anniversary of the day legendary archer William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head?way back in the 14th century. Yet historians are divided over dates, circumstances, and even whether the story is true. Click through these links for a closer look at the man and the myth…. Read more »
If vocabulary and word issues have you in a creative rut, consider checking out the online Visual Thesaurus. The innovative site doesn’t simply list synonyms, but instead creates colour-coded word maps with synonyms, antonyms, and slight variations in meaning laid out spatially in an ?intuitive interface.? In conjunction with the visual thesaurus-dictionary, Visual Thesaurus also… Read more »
At Home: Help Will Come to Those Who Give It Pay it forward. Remember karma. Do unto others as you’d have others do to you. No matter how you say it, the principle has been ingrained into our collective consciousness: do good, and good will follow you someday. Someday. But for one Canadian Good Samaritan,… Read more »
Got something to say? The words themselves aren’t the only things that matter in getting your message across. As Marshall McLuhan’s famous line goes, ?The medium is the message??and if You’re using a medium involving typeface, the font you choose becomes part of that message too. Confused? Click through these links for an idea of… Read more »
Last week we highlighted some of the controversy surrounding Athabasca University’s new coat of arms and crest. What do you think? How well do they represent the university and its students? Tell The Voice, and you could win! Email us today at voice@voicemagazine.org and let us know your opinion. Ten respondents will win free Voice… Read more »
At Home: Raising the Dead Halloween may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the creepy tales are put aside ?til next October. One recent news story is sure to put shivers down the spine: in a case both strange and sad, a Moncton, N.B., woman has made a request to exhume the body… Read more »