The Lowdown: This year Calgary’s alternative radio-station, X 92.9, marked the end of summer and the September long weekend with their annual music festival X-Fest. Larger then previous years, this year the festival ran two days; Saturday August 31st and Sunday September 1st, and brought crowds of alt. rock and indie fans swarming to Fort…
Named after former CBE student and famous Canadian astronaut, Robert Thirsk, the school aims to explore, innovate and educate – three things that are near and dear to Thirsk. The school opens its doors today (Sept 3, 2013) to welcome 850 Grade 10 and 11 students (it can hold 1,500 at full capacity). There will be two food…
In June, the YYCFlood articles which our bloggers crafted in the matter of a few days reaffirmed how quick the internet had to react to current issues. We weren’t even out of the state of emergency as I was doing my blog article on how social media reacted to the Alberta Floods; my late additions…
I have always learned, that in order to figure out politics, you have to (excuse my language) wade through the BS to get to the political truth. Here is my interpretation of that truth. Tensions keep rising in Syria as the chemical attack from Aug 21 stresses the nations of the world. Over 1,300 have died…