Month: May 2009

By Rhiannon Kirkland

In response to rising rents and a 0.5 per cent vacancy rate in years past, the Students’ Union took action to ensure all students were guaranteed a roof over their head. The fruits of their labour, the Inter-Institutional Residence Feasibility Study, was released Friday, April 24, finding that a residence open to all Calgary post-secondary… Continue reading Affordable housing report released

By Daniel Pagan

Due to a freeze on operations funding from the province, the University of Calgary will have to tighten its belt to avoid three consecutive years of deficits. The deficit is set to increase from $17 million in 2010 to $47 million in 2012. However, the university is not allowed to run a deficit because provincial… Continue reading Deficits loom on horizon for U of C

By Noah Miller

While pushing through an amendment to the Alberta Human Rights Citizenship Act, the provincial legislature has faced harsh criticism from the Sheldon Chumir Foundation and the Alberta Teachers’ Association, among others. Bill 44, otherwise known as the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Amendment Act, revamps Alberta’s human rights legislation, breaking a 13-year streak of non-modification.… Continue reading Change to provincial human rights act stirs criticism

By Katy Anderson

Condoleezza Rice, following in the footsteps of her cohort from the recent republican regime, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, gave a speech to welcoming Calgarians on Wednesday night. The former U.S. Secretary of State’s talk was the keynote address at the opening of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, a… Continue reading Contentious Condi visits Calgary

By Sarelle Azuelos

When former United States secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was invited to the University of Calgary, a clear message on our academic direction was sent. Rice came to give a speech on “critical issues facing North America from a global perspective” for the U of C School of Public Policy’s grand opening. The $500-a-plate event… Continue reading Rice speech taints policy school opening

By Jordyn Marcellus

Starting June 24, Calgary music fans will enjoy the nasally sounds of Nardwuar the Human Serviette, the primal party tunes of Andrew W.K. and the usual epic late night dance after-parties when the third annual Sled Island music festival comes to town. Though the haters and the rumour mongers had said that the festival wouldn’t… Continue reading Sled Island announces solid line-up

By Mike Tofin

Drummer Jordan Burns, and Strung Out are punk rock legends. From music, to motocross, to the inside line on great dentistry, these stallions of the punk subculture are ready to run their cavalry straight through Alberta, guns blazing. Their first stop is in Edmonton to see their newly coined, and much adored, punk rock dentist.… Continue reading The down-low on the punk rock dentist

By Jordyn Marcellus

Sitting cross-legged in his zebra-print bean bag chair, Myke Atkinson is letting me listen to his latest work, Moments Of A Red Sun (In D Major). The music and video art installation — video provided by Manny Golden — debuting at the Cantos Music Foundation on Wednesday, May 20, is composed of eight different CD… Continue reading Caught beneath the Tides of music

By Allison Drinnan

The eye is a complicated organ integral to our very being, yet we think about or appreciate it very little. It captures light and sends signals to our brain, detecting shapes and colours, enhancing the way we experience our surroundings. There is a particular eye within the heart of Calgary’s musical scene that has been… Continue reading Jeepers creepers, check out these peepers