With school finally being done, many of us are looking forward to enjoying the summer break. However, for me personally, I often find myself during the summer sitting around the house, because I’ve run out of things to do. I mean, one can play on their phone for only so long, right? For those of…
As February is Black History Month, here is a list of 5 nonfiction/fiction books, (in no particular order) that are essential to read, before the month ends (or anytime during the year!). White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo This book is one of many books that I will constantly recommend to others. In it, the author…
The earth’s fragility is well known by now. Thus, there has been an increase in countries attempting to implement policies to help combat climate change. For example, the infamous Paris Agreement has made an effort to set ambitious but necessary goals to help combat environmental issues, more specifically for climate change. The environment has not…
Officially as of November 19, 2018, the Bank of Canada issued a new vertical $10 banknote. It might take a while to see them due to circulation, but they look like this: The new bill, alongside being the first vertical banknote in Canada, is equipped with enhanced features that make it harder to counterfeit. There…
Very rarely is there an issue that polarizes constituents in Canada such as the Trans-mountain pipeline. From those against the pipeline, we see an argument being made that the expansion to the already-existing Trans-mountain pipeline is an unnecessary project which endangers the ecosystem, and aside from the usual rhetoric of environmental-protectionism we also see many indigenous…
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.” ― Neil Gaiman
Exploring the creation of the national icon which we have today.
Revisiting Canada’s founding for its 150th anniversary
Nothing is more patriotic to a country than its national anthem; for Canada, this is no different with our national anthem “O Canada”. Whether it is being sung at the start of a hockey game, before the start of an assembly, or after a Canadian wins a gold medal at the Olympics, the song is…
It’s a Saturday morning. I’m in my bed, snoozing away. All of a sudden, I’m startled and I wake up due to a terrible ringing sound. I pick up the phone with annoyance, and I’m appalled when they ask for an appointment at Chatters hair salon. Turns out it was the wrong number. I grumpily…
Canada’s National Parks have become an essential part of Canadian identity and it all started right here, in Alberta.
I’ll bet Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Minister of Justice of Canada in 1892, could never have imagined that a small, personal project could one day become the code upon which justice is determined in Canada. After its confederation in 1867, Sir John A. Macdonald (photo below), then Prime Minister of Canada, was determined not…
When most people think of the Yukon Territory, they think of a barren land of ice and snow which few people want to live in. However, there was a time in history, especially between 1896-1899, when people flocked to the Yukon in the thousands from around North America. This event is known as the Klondike…
Who would like to move to Yukon? Surprisingly, from 1896 to 1899, more than 100,000 people migrated to Yukon, which at the time was considered as an unprecedented amount of immigration. Why did all these people all of a sudden move to the Yukon Territory, I hear you ask? We know they have great potatoes,…
The deadliest landslide in Canadian history.