By Eesha Imran
When talking to the children of the eighties, there is one movie most of them can name — a movie that helped guide their generation, as well as define the time period. It became so decade-defining that people are still talking about it. Footloose is regarded by many as the ultimate story of youth empowerment.… Continue reading Footloose and eighties-free
By Chad Utke
For the record, I’d probably vote for George Clooney if his name popped up on my local election ballot. Wouldn’t you? He has built a reputation as one of the classiest and most charismatic men in Hollywood — an Oscar-nominated actor on-screen and an active advocate of resolving the conflict in Darfur. If you happen… Continue reading Film review: The Ides of March
On September 26, EMI Music launched “Why Pink Floyd?”, a new advertising campaign surrounding both studio album re-releases and distribution of previously unreleased audio and video footage. However, a more apt question than “Why Pink Floyd?” may be “Is it worth it?”– especially when one considers the slew of Pink Floyd releases that have trickled… Continue reading Pink Floyd: Remastered
The University of Calgary’s Engineers Without Borders club is attempting to make the U of C a fair trade campus. EWB has been holding ‘Fair Trade Fridays’ in a push to promote Fair Trade on campus. “Fair Trade Canada came to EWB with this Fair Trade Campus idea to try to get EWB to implement… Continue reading Fair trade Fridays at the U of C
By Julia Shaw
The University of Calgary’s Native Ambassador Post-Secondary Initiative is in its tenth year. The goal of the program is to motivate and inspire Aboriginal youth to pursue post-secondary. Senior NAPI ambassador Tessa Baily is from Teslin Tlingit First Nation in the Yukon and is in her third year at the U of C. When Baily… Continue reading Ten years of success for NAPI program
The Metropolitan Calgary Foundation would like to put senior issues back into the dialogue of communities and government policy. MCF is a non-profit organization in Calgary that provides housing for low-income seniors. With approximately 1,700 residents, MCF operates 17 independent townhouse, apartment and cottage-style housing options as well as nine subsidized supported living lodges that… Continue reading MCF puts seniors on the map
By Erick Maleko
After nearly 10 years in development, the Haskayne School of Business will be joining other top-calibre business schools in the country with its construction of a new Finance and Trading Lab. Calgary billionaire N. Murray Edwards donated $500,000 to the construction of the lab, giving Haskayne the facilities needed to provide its finance students with… Continue reading Haskayne joins the ranks
By Matthew Feeg
The Sept. 22, 2011 issue of the Gauntlet ran an article entitled Limits of the Scientific Method by Louis Joubert. I have found this article to be most erroneous in its criticism of science. Part of this stems from the failure to clearly define science. The author proposes to “stick to the definition that seems… Continue reading A science of progress is a reliable science
Denmark’s recent move to add a fat tax — costing their consumers about 3 dollars per kilo of saturated fats — does not address any of the implications of the mass-production of foods. At the very least, if a similar fat tax were introduced to Canada, it definitely would not improve the habits or health… Continue reading Danish fat tax: a step in the wrong direction
By HJ Hornbeck
Guess what’s back in the news? Conservative mp Brad Trost warns that the debate on abortion access has been reopened in Canada, and that aggressive new tactics will be the name of the game. Okay, fine. Let’s talk abortion. We’ll assume that abortion is murder, and that our goal is to eliminate it. I know… Continue reading “This again?! Abort me already…”