Save Our Fine Arts

Attention students of Alberta! I’m talking K-12! With the recession, the deficit and increasing strain on our spending, the provincial government is proposing cuts all across the board. We already know this – the controversial elimination of written diplomas in sciences and maths have caused quite the stir already. Now, the government has gone a…

Vegan Spider!

Think that all spiders are mean, evil looking meat eaters? Well, you have just being proven to be wrong! Scientists who have being studying a tropical jumping spider, the  Bagheera kiplingi, in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Costa Rica between 2001 and 2008 have made an amazing discovery. This “utterly surreal” spider’s diet consists almost completely…

Gold Star, A++

Ever wanted to grade Calgary on how well you think it’s doing?  I mean, you get graded all the time, why not turn the tables? Child and Youth Friendly Calgary is actually working on a new project that will let you do just that.  It’s called Youth Vital Signs, and it will let you give…

Read This: Gone

Gone is the first part in a series of novels.  It is about a town that gets trapped in an impenetrable dome and everyone over the age of 14 disappears.  The kids in this novel mostly belong to one of the two groups: the kids from Perdido beach and the ones from Coates academy.  The kids…