The All-Star hockey team is the biggest thing going in hockey right not. No matter which NHL teams’ web site you are on, you will be bombarded with requests to vote for this year’s All-Star team. Support your favourite players and vote! Simply choose one player for each position and click the web site’s submit… Read more »
When our daughter was in her sixth month of life, my husband and I decided to do something that four out of five accountants and retirement consultants would not recommend. We found ourselves between jobs and with just a little bit of money in our bank account. We decided to take three months off work… Read more »
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Label: Interscope/Polydor Release: November 2006 Tracks: 12 Rating: 5 Well, it’s official. The band called “blink 182” are no more. The three members have ultimately fragmented into two new bands. Tom DeLonge joined Boxcar Racer and Angels and Airways. Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker went to +44. It’s just like the situation of a couple… Read more »
When I was very young, I was a staggering toddler drunk on milk and wonder, and lullabies and nursery rhymes. My head was filled with songs that were mine alone. I would lie awake for hours in my crib, so I have been told, babbling in the singsong tongue of lunatics and infants. I was… Read more »
During a recent trip to Value Village, I was thrilled to find some books for my ever-expanding library. Getting three books (including two hardcovers) for $16.97 does my heart good. I love getting a helluva deal on something that I would have paid full price for. And who hasn’t suffered sticker shock at new book… Read more »
AU Students Applaud Affordability Framework New policy addresses many concerns, but barriers still exist Athabasca University Students’ Union – Friday’s press release on the Affordability Framework for Post-Secondary education included a number of surprises and addressed many of the concerns expressed in AUSU’s 2005 submission to the A Learning Alberta Steering Committee’s post-secondary review. Requests… Read more »
Be a good little boy and eat all your food, or you won’t grow up to be big and strong like me. Be a good little girl and don’t get in the way when Mommy’s trying to do the housework. Be a brave little boy and don’t cry. It’s just a little blood. Be a… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP) — The cancellation of formal sex education in Montreal high schools is contributing to the proliferation of sexually transmitted infections, some health organzations worry. Young people in Montreal are not learning the realities of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to Christina Foisy of Head and Hands, a Montreal non-profit organization that provides medical… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP) — Dressed in white lab coats and waving placards, more than 300 medical students gathered yesterday to protest the blow dealt to their education by increasing friction between medical specialists and the government. Last week, members of Quebec’s Federation of Medical Specialists (FMSQ) began refusing to teach medical students last week to protest… Read more »
Pope Benedict XVI has landed in the Ankara airport and been greeted by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan despite prolonged mutterings that the Catholic leader may just be left to take care of himself once he touched down. The Prime Minister did turn up, as it happened, and rumour has it that 3,000 police… Read more »
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