I first want to point out that our feature article this week is actually the first part of a two-part interview with Dr. Lloyd Robertson, who was recently a professor in AU’s MAIS, but is currently transitioning into private practice. In this part, we find out how someone who was twice-baptized ends up becoming the… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am in my twenties and have two older brothers who are 12 and 13 years older than me. I don’t resemble my brothers, they have dark hair and eyes and I have light hair and blue eyes. My mom raised us as a single mom. Our dad died when I was a… Read more »
Summertime and Canada Day is upon us! With that in mind, next week, The Voice Magazine will take a brief hiatus. I need to be rested and prepared for what’s going to happen the week after that—when our biannual reader survey comes out and AUSU pushes the Voice Magazine in their newsletter. Such pushes are… Read more »
I went to a “Women in Politics” event so you don’t have to Since I started taking courses at Athabasca University, I find myself at the public library a lot. Studying at home with my two young sons has proven to be less than productive, as frequent interruptions to dole out fruit snacks or change… Read more »
“I had an extremely slow dawning insight about creation. That insight is that context largely determines what is written, painted, sculpted, sung, or performed. That doesn’t sound like much of an insight, but it’s actually the opposite of conventional wisdom, which maintains that creation emerges out of some interior emotion, from an upwelling of passion… Read more »
While Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we look at more differences between us and them. Searching for sense in American politics. In advance of the 2012 U.S. election, dual-citizen Wander Waterman reflects on some fundamental differences between Canadian and American attitudes toward politics and voting. Americans are “a little more drawn to confrontation; they don’t… Read more »
Congratulations, America! You thought your future was going to look like The Jetsons, or even StarTrek, but, sorry, no. If we had to pick a classic television series that matched the impending doom of American family life, we’d have to refer to the magnificent Addams Family. The Addams family was modelled on a peculiar seam… Read more »
