It has been almost two months since students have returned to school, and whether that return came with resignation or excitement for the new school year, everyone has more or less gotten back into the swing of things. However, it is at this exact time that students will struggle to juggle all the different aspects…
For those of you reading this who don’t live in Calgary, sorry, but this post may not be very relatable. But for my fellow Calgarians, or even other Canadians, I hope you find this post (consisting mostly of my rants) entertaining! What’s up? (AKA my rant) I’ve always been a fall person (pumpkin spice for…
If I asked you what you thought the deadliest animal on earth was, what would you say? Living in Canada sure makes deciding one animal pretty hard. Surprisingly, unlike what many of you would have guessed, the deadliest animal on earth is smaller than my finger nail. Our culprit is mosquitoes, which are considered the…
Self-esteem is a negative or positive opinion about ourselves. Experts say people with high self-esteem believe that they are worthy, deserve to be loved, and have a positive attitude. On the other hand, people with low self-esteem have a lack of confidence, feel depressed, focus on their negatives, and ignore their achievements. Self-esteem plays an…
The question of how much sway money has over politics has been a resounding debate for years. Now, it’s a debate that has once again been brought up due to recent events regarding American Senator Joe Manchin and a key climate change program. This may very well change the course of the United State’s policy…
In this day and age, many new businesses are on the rise, in ways that we would once never imagine. As times are changing, new entrepreneurs must adapt in order to keep up with the competition and make it in a cutthroat world. With that being said, learning from a teenage blogger may not seem…
Released September 17, 2021, Squid Game, a Korean survival thriller took the world by storm. Making its way to #1 on Netflix’s most watched list in 90 countries, it became Netflix’s biggest original series. Despite being around for more than half a century, the South Korean TV and film industry have become more mainstream over…
Do you think that human development would’ve made it this far if we didn’t damage the ecosystem? Or did humans do the wrong thing and shouldn’t have harmed the ecosystem in the first place? As many may have known, the earliest life evolved from the oceans billions of years ago. The ocean is responsible for…
Our imaginations are filled with endless possibilities when we think about the world’s future. Some of us imagine a highly advanced technological world filled with flying cars or robots. In reality, our current way of life will lead us to climate change. However, we can change this outcome through a more sustainable and cleaner mode…
Preface: My life has always been full of grief. Everything starts and ends eventually, and being the bear witness of that leads to a lot of hurt. Grief comes in forms of understanding, it comes abstractly, and it comes when you least expect it. All we can hope to do is hold on, to ourselves,…
Trigger Warning: This piece includes examples of violence and current issues within society. Viewer discretion is advised. Recently, the mayoral elections happened. We saw a surge in candidates and interest in all areas of the political spectrum. It can be theorized this is due to current resentment of the government, like we saw in the…
Yesterday, one of my hockey fanatic friends invited me to see the Calgary Flames home opener at the Saddledome. Oddly enough, in my ten years of living in Calgary I’d never been to see a game before. Further, I possess very limited hockey knowledge (having only seen a few practices from when I was a…
Saturday: a notepad sat on my desk. The paper’s slick surface reflected a curious yellow hue from a lamp. A clear resin pen, filled halfway with a dark grey ink, lay atop the notepad, a conspicuous accessory. I was up late at night, but the late-night writing did little to help with my insomnia. Rather,…
We live in the age of internet, innovation, and contemporary ideas. Because of the comfort that the internet gives us, learning has never been easier. From this ease, what is a better way to get the future of our technical pioneers? In like manner, Google thought exactly that. What Is Kick Start? Kick Start is…
Towering and intrepid… Like most literary imagining of the future, [Atwood’s] vision is mournful, bleak, and infernal, and is punctuated, in Atwood style, with the occasional macabre joke– Perhaps not unlike Dante’s own literary vision – The New Yorker I will not spoil the story for Oryx and Crake. All the information about this book…