By Amy Badry
Street Talk, a local street paper that raised awareness about issues of poverty and homelessness, published its last paper this month. For the past 15 years, Street Talk was sold around the city by vendors experiencing poverty and homelessness. Selling the paper gave vendors a way to supplement their income while enhancing skill sets and… Continue reading Street Talk stops talking
Affordable housing is always an important issue for students in the city and a new initiative from the Calgary Seniors’ Resource Society looks to ease the problem with a unique partnership. A new program called Calgary Homeshare launches this fall and hopes to match students with seniors in the community to both alleviate rent for… Continue reading Calgary Homeshare program unites students and seniors with housing
The campus ID card is used for everything from security identification to gym access, but the University of Calgary plans to expand the system even further. Though the timeline for the whole project spans several years, the school plans to improve the printing interface and replace traditional payment methods at more vendors with the card.… Continue reading ONEcard looks at expansion in MacHall
The University of Calgary Students’ Union has formally withdrawn its complaint against the Campus Pro-Life student group in the latest of a series of successes for the club over the past several months. “It was the previous Students’ Union executive who gave the go-ahead to the review board to withdraw the complaint,” explained SU president… Continue reading SU withdraws Pro-Life Club complaint
With only a few days left before Bike Root will be forced to leave their current location in Murray Fraser Hall, the bicycle advocacy group’s prospects for a new permanent home look bleak. Due to the end of quadrangle construction, the university notified Bike Root in June that they would be reclaiming the currently inaccessible… Continue reading Bike Root Update
By Amy Badry
July 1 marked the first official day on the job for Elizabeth Cannon as the eleventh president of the University of Calgary. Another first is the publication of the president’s contract which was posted online listing, among other details, Cannon’s take-home base salary at $430,000.The U of C decided to post Cannon’s contract on its… Continue reading U of C makes president’s contract public
By Jaya Dixit
Many an elder have argued that the best way to watch what you eat is by making it yourself. With the recent and prolific reactions to ethical eating discourse, however, it seems that perhaps the best way to watch what you eat is to grow it yourself as well. Once upon a time, food consumption… Continue reading Eating ethically is neither cheap nor easy
By Noah Miller
Calgary shoppers continue to express their agitation and anger over recent efforts by retailers of every shape and size to charge for plastic bags in an attempt to curb the 900 million bags dished out to Albertans annually. Few Calgarians have to look further than their local store to witness a cashier informing a customer… Continue reading Plastic baggage carries high costs
Elizabeth Cannon, the University of Calgary’s president as of July 1, started her job at a tough time. The great recession is still fresh in our minds; education costs are rising due to a lack of provincial funding; and, following the outgoing president Harvey Weingarten’s $4.5 million pension package, people are seeing the president’s salary… Continue reading New president starts it off right
By Noah Miller
Thanks to a new agreement between Shaw Communications and the Canada West University Athletic Association, Canada West football action will be televised live for the next two seasons. Shaw is slated to broadcast six conference season games, giving each of the six Canada West teams a shot at the spotlight. Shaw will also broadcast a… Continue reading Shaw to broadcast Canada West Football