Before it’s declared too late to speak about anything that happened in 2016, I wanted to give my opinion on the movies of last year. 2016 was a terrible year filled with great movies, but here are a couple of my all time favourites. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (source!) …
It is no question to anyone that 2016 is a year to remember for a very long time, from the most shocking events of the 2016 American Election to the break-up of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. To end off such an eventful year, YouTube brought on another interesting controversy with it’s annual “YouTube Rewind…
Every year, the fashion trends which make a name in the market never fail to surprise me. To professional fashion analysts and designers, style patterns and what’s “in” may be predictable, but to an ordinary consumer such as myself fashion is always refreshing. As seasons come and go we see items enter the style chain,…
This revelation came to me about two minutes before I started wring this post. That’s right, we’re on our last month until 2017. And because this year has been so unique, I’ve decided to list my highlights of 2016. 1. Olympics: This year’s Olympics in Rio, Brazil, was certainly unlike any that has ever happened…
Just recently we have passed the first official day of Spring, (March 20th). Days lengthen and people slowly crawl out of hibernation. When you ask me what season I favour, le printemps has and will always be my answer. Springtime is the right amount of warm air, friends and patio drinks, dog walking and frisbee. Springtime is travelling, bike rides, and…
A hop, skip and a boatride into the past might bring you to June 12th 1215. On this day, a little over 800 years ago, marked the birth of the Magna Carta. Also known as The Great Charter and one of the most imporant documents in hisory as it proclaimed everyone is subject to the…
Yet another year is upon us, and it is with great pleasure that I would like to introduce 2016’s first Blogger of The Month, Elvin. It was on this lovely Friday that we both hurried to Chinook Centre to have a chance to talk before the weekend was upon us. Sitting in the quietest place…
2016 marks the beginning of a new year for Calgary, filled with new projects and plans to work towards a stronger and more connected community. As Mayor Nenshi put it, despite the economic uncertainty, there’s great potential in Calgary. In Calgary’s 2015 Citizen satisfaction survey, a high rating of 80% of Calgarians conveyed satisfaction towards…
In August of this year, plans were unveiled for a new downtown stadium-arena, dubbed CalgaryNEXT. The structure would not only house a new football stadium, but also a new hockey arena and a multipurpose fieldhouse. CalgaryNEXT would be replacing McMahon Stadium and the Scotiabank Saddledome in addition to fulfilling the demand for a fieldhouse. After…
{Source} You never really know what the New Year will bring until it’s December 31st and you’re trying to piece 12 months worth of memory. 2015, undoubtedly, was a year that flew right by. But that’s not without a laundry list of events we’d like to forget about or remember for the rest of our lives.…
This time of the year is always jam-packed with celebrations, and for many, New Year’s Eve festivities are one of the last celebrations to take place in this holiday season before we must grudgingly drag ourselves back to school and hunker down for exams. That being said, I’ve resolved to spend this New Year’s Eve…