Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing…
I recently read Plague, the third instalment of the Gone series, and I must say this series just keeps getting better. If you have not read the previous books in this series or my reviews of them, this review probably won’t make much sense. Basically the town is running out of water so Albert (who’s…
Imagine yourself as a Muslim man walking down the street in Dallas just days after the September 11 attacks on New York City. Everybody knows that in the paranoid aftermath of the attacks, a great degree of unjust criticism was hurled at the Muslim world.
Are you an acrophobic? Afraid of heights? I don’t suggest you visit the Burj Khalifa anytime soon. I actually did know about the Burj Khalifa before my Physics teacher mentioned it during class but I never thought to look it up on YouTube. I know this is old news and many of you know about…
Now, we all know the summer and the freedom from lack of school can induce laziness and make you want to never use your brain again, but education certainly does not stop after school ends. Summer is sometime politics’ busiest season, so here are some ways to stay engaged and informed with what’s going on…
As part of the Youth Endorsed City Space (YECS) project, members of the Mayor’s Youth Council visited Cardel Place to evaluate it on various areas related to it’s youth friendliness, in hopes of presenting it with a YECS banner certifying it as youth friendly. Previous endorsements have gone to Village Square and Southland Leisure centres,…
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“In a box of Cheerios, be a Froot Loop!” Making a change in your community, city and world makes a huge impact on not only yourself, but the people around you. This week, I attended the Youth Alberta Community and Cooperative Association (ACCA) Co-operative Youth Leadership Program. It was a chance for people between the…
Last summer I visited Charlottetown, P.E.I. and took some shots of the famed Confederation Bridge.
When the design of the Peace Bridge was first unveiled to the public, many Calgarians roared with disapproval and haven’t changed their attitude since.
Clearly, facing south on the Eiffel Tower, and ya know, just casually trying to climb the fence.
For those of you that have been to the Stampede this year, you may have seen one of the performances by human cannonball David “The Bullet” Smith Jr. Currently the world record holder for the longest human cannon ball shot, Smith Jr. launches himself 46 metres (about 150 feet) across the Saddledome Plaza everyday…
During this time one year ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico was finally sealed completely, after 17-39 million gallons of oil had been spilled. I want to commemorate this occasion with an overview of some issues surrounding the oil and gas industry today. I know this sounds like a strange subject…
Between Friends Club is dedicated to helping kids with disabilities go to camps, and participate in other recreational activities that they might not be able to enjoy due to their disorders. He was a quiet boy, unable to give a response when I first introduced myself. I knew he wanted to say something back when…