Picture of the day: If Harry Potter was an anime
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A success for sustainable seafood
Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing…
Muslim hate-crime victim attempts to save his attacker’s life
Imagine yourself as a Muslim man walking down the street in Dallas just days after the September 11 attacks on New York City. Everybody knows that in the paranoid aftermath of the attacks, a great degree of unjust criticism was hurled at the Muslim world.
Visit the Burj Khalifa!
Are you an acrophobic? Afraid of heights? I don’t suggest you visit the Burj Khalifa anytime soon. I actually did know about the Burj Khalifa before my Physics teacher mentioned it during class but I never thought to look it up on YouTube. I know this is old news and many of you know about…
Mayor’s Youth Council endorses Cardel Place
As part of the Youth Endorsed City Space (YECS) project, members of the Mayor’s Youth Council visited Cardel Place to evaluate it on various areas related to it’s youth friendliness, in hopes of presenting it with a YECS banner certifying it as youth friendly. Previous endorsements have gone to Village Square and Southland Leisure centres,…
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Photo of the Day: Confederation Bridge
Last summer I visited Charlottetown, P.E.I. and took some shots of the famed Confederation Bridge.
The bridge leading to nowhere: The Peace Bridge
When the design of the Peace Bridge was first unveiled to the public, many Calgarians roared with disapproval and haven’t changed their attitude since.
Photo of the Day: Eiffel Tower, Personnel et confidentiel
Clearly, facing south on the Eiffel Tower, and ya know, just casually trying to climb the fence.
Photo of the Day: Flying High
For those of you that have been to the Stampede this year, you may have seen one of the performances by human cannonball David “The Bullet” Smith Jr. Currently the world record holder for the longest human cannon ball shot, Smith Jr. launches himself 46 metres (about 150 feet) across the Saddledome Plaza everyday…
Oil: A Guide
During this time one year ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico was finally sealed completely, after 17-39 million gallons of oil had been spilled. I want to commemorate this occasion with an overview of some issues surrounding the oil and gas industry today. I know this sounds like a strange subject…
Kananaskis Summer Beauty
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The origin of the computer bug
Did you ever wonder why a computer bug is called a “bug”? In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper–who was the first female admiral in the Navy–was stationed at Harvard University. She had a computer programming background. When she was there, she wanted to help out the students and faculty fix a computer, so she walked inside…
Photo of the Day: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
I took this photo the other day while in the Montmartre district of Paris.