Photo of the Day: Sunset from Downtown Vancouver
Photo credit: Vicky Price
Constantly falling short on your budget? A look at three things which are getting cheaper
Finding yourself stressed in your teenage years about buying a car for university? Or are you even stretching your budget to watch a movie, due to fiscal restrictions? If so, you have a lot to gain from the statistics presented recently by Times.
29 Ways to Stay Creative
On the days where you find yourself wanting to find a burst of inspiration yet it doesn’t come, you feel like you’ve wasted an opportunity to let your creative juices flow. Well, TO-FU, a design studio in Japan took interest in transforming a list of 29 ways to be creative into an animated motion graphic. …
Calgary’s Identity: Not Just Cowboys
Calgary has always been known for its “Western” culture and identity, but is this who we really are? As one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada due to immigration do we deserve our traditional Western identity? Should we appear to be a more multi-cultural city similar to that of Vancouver or Toronto? With the 5th…
The Smurfs Movie Review
Last Saturday, I went to go see the Sneak Peek premiere of new movie The Smurfs. It was quite an interesting experience. When I got to the entrance, there were three big security guys that had to check me for my phone and any other recording devices, which I had to place into a paper…
The Evolution of Calgary: East Village
Earlier this week, City Council approved a plan to develop an arts hub in the East Village district of Calgary. The $225-250 million proposal includes the building of a new Central library to replace the Castell Central Library, close to 1st Street Station. Along with the library, it is being reported by the Calgary Herald that…
Care for a stroll in a cemetery in Montreal?
In the Cimetiere Mont Royal It has been my great luck to be able to practice some of my French with fellow blogger, WeiJia, in a trip to Montreal, and one of the first landmarks that we explored in Montreal was the Cimetiere Mont Royal. This cemetery is interestingly segregated by domination, with people of the Catholic,…
A Bonjour From Montreal
Summer has been passing by in the blink of an eye. It’s hard to believe that we are almost half way through! This summer, I have had the great fortune of being able to travel to and live in Montreal for five weeks while learning French at the Universite of Montreal. It was the first…
Calgary River Clean-Up
Do you care for the river? Do you think that it is important for OUR health? Well, recently a river clean-up was done to promote the awareness of Calgary’s Bow and Elbow Rivers and how it’s the citizen’s duty to help clean up the litter and protect OUR river. Apparently, in our own river, volunteers…
Photo of the Day: A Castle On the Ocean/海の上のお城
Last summer, when we vacationed in Japan, we came across a place in Tokyo that had this mindblowing origami castle. The official name of the origami work is called A Castle On the Ocean or 海の上のお城. I found out later that the paper castle was created by Wataru Itou (伊藤航), a young student of a…
A first look: The Google+ Project
Google has been one of the most popular and useful websites on the internet for years, and it seems that Google Inc. is constantly looking for ways to increase its usefulness and versatility to the public. Lately there has been quite the buzz around Google’s most recent venture, Google+, and I decided to get a better understanding…
The significance of rainforests
The rainforests used to cover an estimated 14 per cent of the world’s surface, and today, due to deforestation, that number has been brought down to a mere six per cent. Another fact is that the rainforests on earth contain about 20 per cent of the world’s entire oxygen, and according to experts the last…
Pets are NOT products
Do you think it’s fair that pets are being treated like toys? How do you feel about Petland stores selling animals? The on-going issue in Calgary is that there are untrustworthy owners bringing in their pets to pet stores and the purchaser is unaware of the pet’s history. Petland claims that the animals that are…
Calgary Quiz
How well do you know Calgary? Test your knowledge with this short quiz! 1. What does the name Calgary mean? a. Where the trees stand b. Cattle herder c. Bay farm d. Muddy Water 2. Where is Calgary named after? a. Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull, Scotland b. Calgary Trail in Edmonton c.…