Choose Your Side – Canucks or Bruins

With only days left from the Stanley Cup decision, fans across the country wait anxiously for the historic moment! For Vancouver fans, bringing the cup would mean first time win since 1970. On the other side, Boston fans have been waiting for the cup since the Bobby Orr era! Be sure to tune in and…

Halt to Calgary Rain for Lilac Festival 2011

Contrary to beliefs of most Calgarians, on Sunday, May 29 the weather proved to be sunny and perfect for a day out! Vendors were set up all along 13 blocks of Calgary downtown running along 4th St SW. Everywhere you turned was something worth watching. The streets were packed with entertainment, food, drinks, mini games,…

Explosion in Canadian School

The headlines are haunting. An 18-year-old student with a bright future is now dead. Eric Leighton from Mother Teresa Catholic High School was in the twelfth grade and scheduled to attend prom last night (Thursday night). Yet now he is fated to be remembered by a devastating tragedy and through a lonesome memorial. Based on the latest…

Poetry: Graduation!

So it’s that time of year again….Grade 12 Graduation!  Words like: ‘diplomas’ and ‘prom’ are just some of the things on the minds of Grade 12 students across the city.  Ok, I can’t really speak from experience as I won’t be graduating for another couple of years.  My concert band however, has the honour of playing for…

Climate Change Connections

I don’t know about you guys, but ever since I learned about Climate Change and Global Warming, I have been hyper aware of climate disasters and have wondered, is it all connected? To me it seems very odd that some of the world’s deadliest and extreme disasters have all happened in the last five years,…

Create a digital backpack

This post was submitted to Youth Are Awesome by StudyBlue.com. As Student Relations Intern for StudyBlue.com – an online community of students who believe in efficient and effective studying for all (and for free) – I am excited to contribute to student successes on Youth Are Awesome by spreading the word about how to create…

Cardel Place Youth Night Review

Recently, I went to Cardel Place on Youth Night. Youth Night is especially a fun night at the Cardel Place, since there a lot of activities to do and this event attracts a large group of youth almost every week. The end of the month is even more entertaining at Cardel Place due to a…

YouTube Charity Channels

Did you know that YouTube pays people if you have a lot of subscribers? Based on how many people watch your videos, you generate money! So if you get more views, your revenue will increase as well. This is probably how some people can create Youtube videos for a living. On YouTube, there have been…

Tech Highlights Week 4: Top 10 iPhone Apps

1. Facebook Assuming you have a Facebook account, you’d quite literally be insane not to have this app. Watch your news feed, send messages, upload photos, stalk that individual you so dearly desire… o.o 2. Dropbox Dump the files you want to sync in a folder on your computer, and your device will allow you…

Get your Potter passport!

With the final Harry Potter movie installment coming out July 15, Cineplex has offered up the opportunity to experience the first seven movies on the big screen once again! For $24.99, Cineplex Sunridge and Chinook are selling Harry Potter Passports that will allow you to go to showings of the movies starting May 28 for…

Of Sports and Reporting

The first clip is of Evan Longoria saving a reporter from being hit by a baseball. Here he displays amazing (unbelievable) reaction time and hand-eye coordination. [youtube V6Ig3_Agass] The second clip is of a reporter who makes a backwards half court shot without even knowing it. [youtube u9C8tkJNt8Q] And the last clip was what the…

The A Cappella Fellas: Collaborating 4 Kids

On Friday May 13 I had the great pleasure of attending the A Cappella Fellas’ annual concert and the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Ballroom, supporting the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta. For those of you who don’t know, “a capella” is literally a genre of music which involves singing without instruments, meaning the singers…