Bao zi or (steamed buns) is a popular Chinese staple that can be filled with a variety of ingredients.  My family would enjoy making this on weekend afternoons as a way of meal prepping for the next week.  It’s hearty and delicious when prepared fresh.  While you can purchase these from Asian supermarkets in the… Read more »

Non-criminal police interactions may have cost a racialized Canadian the opportunity to pursue employment with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) as a special constable.  The applicant, described as “Middle Eastern” and “Brown” by police officers in general occurrence reports, saw the dispute get escalated to Ontario’s Court of Appeal after the Divisional Court sided… Read more »

From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge.  Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »

Scholarship name:  SGI Anniversary Scholarship Sponsored by:  SGI Canada Deadline:  September 30, 2024 Potential payout:  $2500 Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be a child/legal dependant (under 25 years old) of an active employee of SGI, SGI CANADA or Coachman Insurance, and be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate certificate, diploma, or degree program at an accredited post-secondary… Read more »

Awaking from an unpleasant dream in which I was compelled to carry a plastic fast-food tray laden with food through a gauntlet of wheezing, jostling, and sneezing people it occurred to me what a mild sort of heroism to which my unconscious must aspire.  Overcoming violent terrorists or bringing food to hungry refugees?  Nope.  All… Read more »

Facebook: Do you have anxiety? Take this survey! A student posts a survey for a research study in SOSC 366.  This topic is the effects of stress and anxiety on post-secondary students in Northern Alberta.  If you live in Northern Alberta, please consider filling out this survey form and helping out a fellow AU student:… Read more »

Immigrants are continuing to get accepted to Canada despite that there are housing shortages across the country, with many Canadians struggling to find affordable and adequate housing.  So many immigrants have no option but overcrowding and living in such tight spaces; nobody should want that for themselves.  Immigrants also happen to be taking up jobs… Read more »

Strasbourg is a city in the Alsace region of eastern France, about 400 kilometres east of Paris.  The Ill River, a tributary of the Rhine, runs through the centre of Strasbourg, and the Rhine itself forms the eastern boundary of the city (with the German city of Kehl across the river.) The city’s first historical… Read more »

I want to take the practical, theoretical model of unconditional love created by the founder of The Marriage Foundation and turn it into a proposed theoretical model for higher education.  Researching if any online universities would enable me to do an online PhD dissertation to introduce a theory and in which department indicated that introducing… Read more »

Recently, I was out for a walk in my Winnipeg neighborhood and came across a structure, a translucent plexiglass cube, known as the Little Red Library.  This had been one of the many architecturally designed warming hut structures that had once graced the surface of the frozen Red and Assiniboine rivers during winters when the… Read more »