If you have not yet been informed about this, the CBE sent out a very important message regarding exams next week. Due to the devastating flood that enveloped southern Alberta last Thursday, the Calgary Board of Education, along with the CCSD, and Alberta Educations had worked together and came to the conclusion that for the…
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One of my pet peeves when reading the news is not having enough background information on the subject to comprehend the entire article. I really like getting to the bottom of things, but sometimes I just don’t have time to read an entire book on global economy just to understand a news article better. I…
Well, another year has gone by faster than we want to believe. It is hard to comprehend the significance of each passing day on its own, but string the hours together in groups of 365 (or 366) and the reality of the speed at which our lives advance dawns sadly upon us. Anyways, philosophical rambling…
In the past month, a finance scandal had been discovered which affects everyone who deals with money – basically, everyone in the world. This scandal, which was named after the rate which is at the heart of it, is called the LIBOR scandal. What does LIBOR mean? LIBOR stands for the London Interbank Offered Rate,…
Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? In today’s society, people don’t realize that there are constantly new jobs available. Everyone is under the assumption that they have to be a doctor, engineer or scientist. NO. There are plenty of other options where you can make money and have a…
With more updates coming in by the day, we can see a very nice and fitting end to the NBA lockout! Teams can now hold informal training, practice sessions, and managers can now start working on the financial side of the game (contracts, deals, etc.). Starting on Christmas, a new season consisting of 66 games…
A physicist from Ottawa has recently used lasers to generate large sets of random numbers. According to the Montreal Gazette, Ben Sussman is a physicist who works on quantum technologies at the National Research Council.
On Friday, mayor Nenshi launched a campaign called “3 Things for Calgary” – advocating for a better community by encouraging our community members to do three things that will make Calgary a better place. When I heard Nenshi said, “It could be big things like, join your local community association or it could be small…
Well, OK, so London Bridge itself isn’t actually falling down, but the rest of the city, along with various others in the United Kingdom, are alight with burning buildings and cars, as the citizens of the country riot. How did this all start? On Aug. 4, London police shot Mark Duggan – an alleged crack…
The hubbub in Egypt was nothing but an uprising and civil unrest until Feb. 11, when now former president Mubarak left the capital for his resort in Sharm el-Sheik where a transfer of power from the president to the army occurred, and as of Feb. 14 it consolidated its power. The army promises to hold…
Apparently the zodiac signs have changed. I was a Leo my whole life and I prided myself on being a fierce lion. However, along with the year change, my zodiac sign changed as well. After the change I am now a cancer, a tiny little crab. I am not the only one who is upset…
Recently I saw an article in the Calgary Herald about Iran and how the rapidly modernizing country has joined the arms race and has joined the nuclear weaponry team by creating several nuclear power plants to create “additional energy” for Iranian national interest. This discovery was made by the UN when it built it a…
I was watching the movie the Bucket List on TV last night and it made me think, what was on my bucket list? I know I wanted to become famous and be a billionaire. But strangely I always wanted to win the lottery and donate a majority of the winnings to charity and schools. It looks like…
On Tuesday, the Senate of France passed legislature banning the full burqa veil to be worn in public by a tremendous majority of 246 to 1 in favor of the bill. All it needs is French president Sarkozy’s signature. “Liberté, égalité, fraternité.” Those were the words on the Declaration of the Rights of Man coming…