By Mike Winters
Month: November 2000
Weekend Update with the Dinos
By Randy Lewis
What happens when you fall asleep for half a game against a very good team? Well, let’s just say even the Harlem Globetrotters lose sometimes. Even though the University of Calgary women’s basketball team has been as reliable as a German sedan this season, the Dinos found a way to drop a game last Friday… Continue reading Weekend Update with the Dinos
Weekend Update with the Dinos
By Randy Lewis
What’s the best way to build confidence? For the Dinos, it’s by embarrassing your opponent by 29 points.After being embarrassed themselves by the Golden Bears last weekend, and losing by eight on Friday (86-78), the men’s basketball team came together to crush the hapless University of Manitoba Bisons by a score of 93-64. Led by… Continue reading Weekend Update with the Dinos
Sometimes there is a wrong answer
I watched Oprah the other day. I do not watch her show regularly, but I am occasionally interested because Oprah seems to express some of the most popular spiritual and moral ideas. On the day that I watched, Oprah spoke with a writer, Gary Zukav, who explained various ways of resolving relational problems for couples.During… Continue reading Sometimes there is a wrong answer
People still miss McQ’s
Editors, the Gauntlet,On the second floor of MacEwan Student Centre, right around the corner from the Dairy Queen at the west end of the food court, is a little store. When it was McQ’s, this business was a family-run enterprise, successfully building up a loyal clientele over the decade it was in operation. Students harped… Continue reading People still miss McQ’s
Emotion ruins holiday campaign
By Rob South
Every day of our lives we hear or learn something that upsets us. The challenge we often face is how to use the energy that anger creates without responding in an emotional and unproductive way. Last week, when I heard that some clubs are boycotting the annual Holiday Food Drive because of the Students’ Union’s… Continue reading Emotion ruins holiday campaign
Transfer payment travesty
By Editorial
Over the last seven years, Canada Health and Social Transfer payments suffered large cuts, putting the government’s priorities regarding health care, social services and post-secondary education in question. Many lobby groups called for increases both before and during the recent election and the Liberals (obviously knowing an election was imminent) responded with their infamous mini-budget,… Continue reading Transfer payment travesty
When the turkey eats me, I’ll look at the options
It’s that time of year again, the season of cheer and goodwill and peace among men (women reserve the right to catfights).It’s also the time of year when dinner tables abound with tasty comestibles; in my family, they’re typically of the meat variety. And today I issue fair warning to anyone of the vegetarian persuasion… Continue reading When the turkey eats me, I’ll look at the options
Change don’t come with redneck rule
The more things change the more they stay the same. Another Liberal majority buoyed by Ontario and Quebec has taught us all a very good lesson. Regardless of small-town rhetoric, an agenda of gun-toting, tax-cutting, exclusionary intolerant clamoring won’t win hearts or minds outside the wild, wild West.A 104-seat deficit, no Ontario breakthrough and an… Continue reading Change don’t come with redneck rule
Saving Canada one oddball at a time
It’s time for another unfair parallel. At the beginning of this week, a good load of this nation’s public turned their eyes to the CBC twice. First it was to see that old fashioned Grey Cup final, and next it was to watch the unfolding of yet another federal election. Both impacted the nation and… Continue reading Saving Canada one oddball at a time