This week I bring my discussion on post secondary education and tuition in Alberta to a conclusion. I hope that I’ve succeeded in raising some awareness about issues hindering accessibility to post secondary education. These issues and problems are complex and may not have an easy solution, but unless we are willing to speak up… Read more »
Courting the Prison Vote The Supreme Court of Canada has abolished the law (see: http://www.gc.ca/wire/2002/11/011102_e.html) that prevented federal prisoners from voting in federal elections. The details at elections Canada show that this only affects those prisoners who are serving less than two years in a federal penitentiary (see: http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=gen&document=ec90545&dir=bkg&lang=e&textonly=false), but still this seems like a… Read more »
Hello Sandra, This is not your usual letter, as I am not writing in for myself but rather about my husband, who is an AU student. He is a very busy man, with a career in the military and we have two small sons. He’s got tons of hobbies and friends and he both works… Read more »
Earlier this week writer Wayne Benedict brought to my attention a very important point. Remembrance Day is one of the few recognized holidays that has no formal greeting slogan, no catch phrase, no reminder that makes people feel in the spirit of the day. Granted, people are often confused about what to feel for such… Read more »
University was once the domain of the young. Those who did not enrol right after high school were unlikely to ever earn a degree. There were always exceptions – people who went back to school after raising children or retiring, or those who attended university part-time for personal enrichment, but often these students found campus… Read more »
Biology professor Robert Holmberg reports on the latest in the Centre for Science – photo provided by The Insider With the help of Terra Birkigt, this summer we were able to do some maintenance on Athabasca University’s collection of preserved plants. We now have over 2,800 dried specimens that have been mounted, identified and catalogued…. Read more »
As far back as I can remember I have had a morbid fascination with war. I think it has always been an inability to comprehend the magnitude and propensity of man’s inhumanity to man. As a young teenager, while others my age were watching Gilligan’s Island or Get Smart, I was tuned into the Knowledge… Read more »
Whenever I go out around my neighbourhood I find myself picking up spare change. No, not one of those Need a Penny Take a Penny thingies. You see we don’t own a vehicle so I’m either walking or taking transit. I see the ground, and not the car in front of me. One of the… Read more »
(photo provided by CUP) ST. JOHN’S, NFLD. (CUP) — Former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow came to Memorial University to tell students that money alone isn’t the key to saving Canada’s public health system. Romanow, who is currently the sole commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, said money problems… Read more »
Diversity and belonging: distinct, yet uniquely linked; two concepts of prime importance in an age of homogenization and rootlessness. Diversity: variation, polychromaticity, species of endless description, cultures with myriad ways of seeing and understanding the world, languages as diverse as the worldviews of those who speak them. Belonging: a sense of home, rootedness in place,… Read more »
It was the weekend before last when we became time travelers. It was easy. We didn’t need any ultra advanced technology, we needed neither the guidance nor assistance of Cronus to devour time for us”?nor did we require any other deity, and we didn’t need some artifact of recovered alien mechanics. All we needed was… Read more »
[PHOTO PROVIDED BY CUP: TWO-TIER FEARS (Photo Illustration: Jon Yu)] EDMONTON (CUP) — Faced with concerns of booming undergraduate enrolment and limited space at the University of Alberta, the province is looking into granting degree completion status to two of Alberta’s largest colleges. But students are worried this is the first step towards a two-tiered… Read more »
NATION BOOSTER Author Satya Das says Canada needs to lead the international community by example. (Photo: Patrick Finlay) EDMONTON (CUP) — For the title of his new book about Canadian international leadership, Edmonton author Satya Das chose a phrase that isn’t so modestly Canadian: “?The Best Country: Why Canada Will Lead the Future.’ “It’s very… Read more »
Monday, November 11, 2002, 7-9 p.m. @ the Unitarian Church of Edmonton 12530 – 110 Ave. Local Unitarian Universalist churches celebrate the beginning of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a free public forum on Remembrance Day from 7-9 p.m., Monday, November 11, 2002 at the Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 12530 –… Read more »