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Monthly Archives: April 2021

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Alberta’s Decentralized and Devastating COVID Policies

Current Issues, Editorials, Health, News, Social IssuesBy Cindy LeiApril 24, 2021

As Canada enters yet another wave of the pandemic, most provincial governments have reacted with a wide range of measures. Unfortunately, Alberta is the exception here. Instead of enacting strict measures, officials told citizens to “just behave, and everything will be fine”. Other than  going back to Step 1 of the transition plan and implementing…

Reducing Food Waste and Hunger in your Community

Advice, Advocacy, Current IssuesBy Shreya IvaturiApril 24, 2021

  Around ⅓ of all food for human consumption is wasted yearly. This means that about 1.3 billion tones of food are wasted each year. To put these numbers into context, this amount of food could feed about 3 billion people every year and about 2 billion people on the planet struggle to eat safely.…

Alberta’s New Curriculum Doesn’t Want You to Think

Current Issues, Editorials, News, Social Issues, Youth PerspectivesBy Cindy LeiApril 23, 2021

Draw a path from B.C. to Saskatchewan using a map of Alberta. Learn about BCE and CE before learning how to read a clock. Admire Jason Kenney’s grandpa as the most influential jazz musician in all of Canada-these are some of the most glaring problems that educators found in the Alberta government’s draft K-6 curriculum. But this…

The Little Occurrences of a Small Town Bard – A Poem

Arts & Culture, Creative Writing, Poetry, UncategorizedBy Mckale ChungApril 23, 2021

A little tavern off the side of the main street might prove inconspicuous  And that’s true with the low grumblings at the tired hour of mid day   Soft layers of light filter through the half closed blinds Onto a table held in a stagnant game of cards   You’d think the players were caught…

“I Never Said She Stole My Wallet” and What Makes Us Human

Learn Something New, UncategorizedBy Lara MyldeApril 22, 2021

Sometimes I could swear that my cat is a human trapped in an animal’s body. She loves to cause mischief; she drinks water nearly exclusively out of (explicitly human) glasses that we accidentally leave lying around. And when she knows she’s in trouble, she looks at me with those glassy feline eyes and I find…

Puppy Love- Creative Writing

Creative, Creative Writing, EntertainmentBy Laiba NasirApril 22, 2021

Dear Lover, Some people say that the universe creates things in perfect synchrony, the same reason many people believe in religion, what is the possibility that I fell for and met the perfect person for me. What are the odds they actually exist? Everything in the world sits like a huge puzzle, just yearning to…

Free Rice: An Initiative to Combat World Hunger

Advocacy, Current Issues, Food & Health, Learn Something New, Social IssuesBy Ranya BajajApril 22, 20214 Comments

Hey y’all, first of all, I hope you had a restful and well-deserved spring break. Today I’ll be sharing a wonder I discovered through school quite a few years ago. Well, what is it? The website, “Free Rice” is an initiative led by the United Nations’ World Food Programme; they aim to support calls for…

5 of my Favorite Self-Help Books 

Advice, Advocacy, Books, Creative, Creative Writing, Entertainment, Health, Learn Something New, Life, Reviews, Self-ImprovementBy Hannah KuipersApril 20, 2021

Once again, most of the Calgary student population is back to online school. I usually lose a lot of motivation at home, and it is very easy to feel down about yourself. That is why I want to share some of my favorite self-help books that I have, currently am, or want to read in…

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How to be a better ally

Advocacy, Current Issues, Learn Something New, Social IssuesBy Marthe BakanaApril 20, 2021

Its been a year since the original BLM protests and now with the Stop Asian Hate movement, it seems that this is the time we have to be standing in solidarity with our friends from minority groups. Since last May people have been calling out to people the reeducate themselves on the social issues surrounding…

For Want of an Airplane: A Memory

Creative, Creative WritingBy David ShaoApril 20, 2021

Several years ago, in an airport terminal, I sat in front of a wide, floor-to-ceiling window, waiting to board my flight. Outside, a murky fog had set in by that point in the evening, and for as far as I could see, the view was a dull mixture of greys—the concrete, the unsettlingly thick fog—broken…

Ways to Give Back During a Pandemic

How-To, Learn Something New, Show Appreciation, UncategorizedBy Aarushi BhargavaApril 19, 2021

Throughout the past year, many of us have faced hardships. But, throughout this time, our community has also grown closer together and we’ve found ways to support one another. To bring to light some ways that you can also show appreciation, check out this list of ways that you can support your friends, parents, teachers,…

Extraterrestrial Pollution

Current Issues, Health, Innovations, Interesting Stuff, Learn Something New, News, Science and Technology, STEMBy Steven DongApril 19, 2021

When one thinks of pollution, water, air, and soil are typically the only categories that come to mind. However, one often overlooked type of pollution is the contamination of space. Though we do not feel it, we utterly depend on space in today’s modern-day and age, and the neglected buildup of space garbage may quickly…

How to Stay Productive and Focused during Online School

How-To, Learn Something New, Life, School, Study SpotBy Aarushi BhargavaApril 18, 20211 Comment

Many schools will be returning back to an online system… So why not make the best of this time and be as productive as possible? Here are my top ways to stay productive and focused during online school: 1. Treat your classes as if you were doing them in-person The biggest mistake an individual can…

Playground’s Love

Current Issues, Dialogues, School, Social Issues, Youth PerspectivesBy Joshua ChengApril 18, 20211 Comment

We’ve all been there- those playground marriages at recess time- where a friend officiates, another is the proud father- those playful bindings that resulted as the culmination of days, perhaps weeks, of relentless teasing. Later in the week, or perhaps even the same day’s afternoon- a sheet of scrap paper, whereupon closer inspection has revealed…

“That’s Not Funny”- Combating Dark Humor Among Youth

Advice, Advocacy, Current IssuesBy Shreya IvaturiApril 17, 2021

Discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and many other factors has been a problem across the world for several years. Recently however, we have finally been able to see people come together to address this wide scale issue. There’s one area where I’m constantly seeing discrimination being normalized and joked about. This area is…

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