Since school has gone on spring break prematurely, I have had more time to work on the short story. Be sure to check out Part 1 before continuing your reading. I hope you enjoy a break from all the COVID-19 chaos! Part VI: Destruction We both wake up the next morning feeling hot and thirsty, so…
With the transition to working from home and continuing school through various online platforms, this can be a difficult time for many students. Finding the motivation to continue schoolwork and do homework from the comforts of our own homes is surprisingly challenging. Although you should practise self-care and take care of yourself by giving yourself…
At this special point in time, all of a sudden, what was unimaginable has become mundane, and what was ordinary is now extraordinary. We are stumbling through this unusual time. People from all over the world remain just as different a month ago as they are today, but somehow, we now share one more universal…
The internet is filled with so much! There are endless videos and posts to entertain and inspire. I scroll and scroll for inspiration, and what I find is pretty cool! But for every post that I find very cool and inspiring, I had to scroll through twenty boring ones. Of course, there are so so many…
For the 2019-2020 year, I joined a program called Junior Achievement (JA). Specifically, I joined the Company Program. Essentially, it takes a group of teens together, and you have to create an entire company and product from scratch. This is my experience in the program, as a first-timer into JA. What is Junior Achievement? Junior…
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a series of guidelines on disease naming. They included useful practices to summarize symptoms and reduce fear. They also explicitly mentioned that diseases must not be named after locations, people, animals, or cultures. This was all done in an effort to reduce the stigma and insult related…
The pink shirt anti-bullying movement started in 2007 after a grade nine student from a small town in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink t-shirt to school. As a show of support and acceptance, two of his classmates purchased 50 pink tank tops and handed them out to male classmates the next day.…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that the Coronavirus is now a “global health emergency”. There are about 2800 people dead from illness, (at the time this article was written) Canada now has 13 confirmed cases. But what exactly IS the Coronavirus? Coronavirus is a large family of viruses originated from Wuhan, China; and…
Does Sweatcoin give people free money? Sweatcoin is a fitness app that rewards you for walking or running. It tracks your steps throughout the day and rewards you with 1 SWC for every 1,000 steps you make. The app rewards you with “Sweatcoins” or “SWC”, these coins can allow you to purchase in-app offers, or…
Part I: The Planet This is our reality. Work planet after work planet, each populated by one single individual. A gargantuan drill armed with various powerful lasers ensures that previously grandiose landscapes are stripped in a matter of months. One machine per person. One person per planet. As if they were gifts. With the valuable,…
Last week, I stopped by the Glenbow Museum to see their newest exhibit, Vivian Maier: In Her Own Hands. The installation, besides being beautiful, was insightful into the modest life of a brilliant and largely undiscovered film photographer and the time period that made her ‘observational photos’ so moving. Vivian Maier was a nanny with a…
The Monster They say it resides in deep caves underground or in the dunes of sand least expecting waiting for an unsuspecting prey or lonesome beast upon which it can turn it’s claws (or jaws?) onto we must pray it does not come to tear us from the soft shelters and houses: the…
You don’t need to have a huge bedroom or spend lots of money to have a cool bedroom space. There are simple ways to revamp your room. Whether you need a complete bedroom makeover or are just looking for some extra cool things to add to the space; it’s always a good idea to make…
Introduction: Why write a series on useless websites? Here’s the thing:I spend WAY too much time on the internet, and sometimes, my internet wandering takes me to the weirdest and most useless places on the world wide web. This “useless web” is extremely hilarious and entertaining to me, but most other internet users usually ignore…
Vines entangled the crumbling temple, holding its shattered pieces intact. Trees that stood high above, casted massive shadows beneath. Their thick trunks could have stood there for a millenia. Daniel stood on a rocky patio, far overgrown with grass and weeds. In reality though, it was probably more foliage than rock. In a moment, he…