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Yearly Archives: 2015

To Uber or…

MYC - 0
On October 15, 2015, Uber arrived in Calgary. With its arrival came the usual debate that cities like Toronto and Vancouver have been experiencing...

Mayor Nenshi urges Calgary to whole-heartedly welcome Syrian Refugees

MYC - 1
As of now, the Syrian Refugee crisis has been the largest humanitarian crisis of all time. Leaving 7.6 million Syrians displaced from their homes, as...

Partners for Mental Health Presents: TWLOHA Screening & Panel!

Kandace Peroramas - 0
{Source} Mental health awareness is something I have been passionate about for almost 4 years. It started when I saw close friends suffer from depression...

A Guide to Shopping Sweatshop-Free

Caitlin Yardley - 2
In our current society almost everything we wear, read, and use on a daily basis has been made somewhere overseas. This is especially the...

Thoughts We All Have At School Dances

Talia Santarossa - 0
In spite of the recent crises around the world over the last week, life has continued. For many, it has been a time of...

Dealing With Criticism (Meet my Ugly Friend: Egotism)

Emily Donville - 0
I’ll be honest: I’m really jealous of people who can take constructive criticism easily. I struggle with the thought of being less than great,...

One Month on the Paleo Diet: Why I spent 30 days Eating Whole Foods

Maddison Zapach - 0
Some of you may associate the Paleo diet with impressive chunks of meat  and... well, more chunks of meat. But the idea behind eating...

#PrayforParis and the Politics of Slacktivism

Katja - 1
I'm going to be brutally honest here: I haven’t changed my Facebook profile picture to "support France and the people of Paris” and I...

Exams are So Important that Flights were Delayed

Katie Kim - 0
While the news nowadays in the world consists of terrible things, such as the Paris attacks. However, to the students in Korea, there is...

#PrayFor…Life

Kandace Peroramas - 0
This picture was taken a year and a half ago when my family went to Europe over Spring Break. It was after midnight, yet our...

Pray for Paris

~ Chu ☆ ~ - 0
As you may know, Friday, November 13 marked a tragic day all around the world. Earthquakes in Japan and Mexico, a funeral bombing in...

The Pursuit of Happiness

Serena Gadamsetti - 0
What is happiness to you?  Such a straightforward question that ultimately generates a world of complicated answers. Instead, pause, look around you and ask yourself,...

3 Must-Read Books: Winter/Exam-Time Relief

Hellen Kang - 0
Winter and exam-time are two extremely dreadful few weeks that happen to occur at basically the same time. Personally, I find reading extremely relaxing,...

My Tour of Montreal

Didi Moffat - 0
My school is at Montreal for the SSUNS Model UN competition. On Wednesday, we had about a 7 hour long tour of the city of Montreal....

Nepal: Six Months After the Quake

Caitlin Yardley - 0
April 25th 2015: the Gorkha earthquake swept through Nepal. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8, along with numerous aftershocks, landslides and flooding, devastated...
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