Missed your favourite shows? No problem. Primetime update gives you the rundown. BIG BROTHER 5 – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays – 9pm on CBS Thirteen strangers stuck in a house. Each week the houseguests compete for groceries, luxuries, for head of household (HOH – private bedroom, privilege of nominating other houseguests for eviction), and for the… Read more »
For Canada Day, our friends Raj and Sara invited us over for a backyard fireworks display. Sara is a vet, and she’d bartered a box of fireworks in lieu of cash payment for some surgery on a poodle belonging to the owner of a grocery store. We set off roman candles and bottle rockets, and… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am a recently divorced mother of a 12-year-old daughter. I work full time and attend university part time. I have recently begun dating a very nice gentleman. However my daughter does not like my boyfriend and does not want him coming into our home. Consequently, the only time I can see him… Read more »
A few weeks ago I was walking our dog around the neighbourhood, when I came across a woman pulling weeds from the flower garden in front of her home. I complemented her on her beautiful cottage which, with its thatched roof and ivy covered-walls, reminded of a Hobbit house, or an illustration from a Beatrix… Read more »
July is upon us, and out here in the big city on the Wet Coast the rain clouds have temporarily departed and the dog days of summer are lying in the shadow of our front porch, their tails swishing and their tongues hanging to the ground. It’s the time of year that a middle-aged gourmand’s… Read more »
This column focuses on a wide range of issues affecting post-secondary students. Students are encouraged to submit suggestions and educational topics they are concerned about, or personal experiences with courses or university situations they feel other students should know about. If suggest a topic or a course alert for taking notes, contact djabbour@ausu.org Plagiarism at… Read more »
Whenever I think of birthdays I think about a line from an old 50’s tune, “You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt” (Merle Travis). According to the Princeton Review, MBA students are prime examples of older students who cannot easily access other means of university funding,… Read more »
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