By Alicia Ward
A performance that’s labelled an “interactive online reality dance show” may sound like a combination Jersey Shore/Dancing with the Stars-themed video game or something equally nauseating, but Inlayers is, thankfully, not. Taryn Javier and Jenn Doan are two Canadian artists who thrive off dancing, collaborating and exploring, and their project and performance Inlayers touches on… Continue reading Inlayers: contemporary dance for dummies
Steve Gates is a singer-songwriter from Halifax, Nova Scotia and A Bee in Her Mouth is his debut full-length album. It was recorded in a makeshift studio in an apartment with the help of his friends in the East Coast arts community. With roots like that, it’s hard not to develop warm feelings for this… Continue reading Spun: Steve Gates
By Ben Hoffman
Released a scant six months after Kate Bush’s previous album, 50 Words For Snow is reminiscent of 2005’s Aerial, with a significant exception: it captures not the airy lightness of summer, but rather the melancholy of the cold winter months. With her teenage son “Bertie” as the only other artist appearing on the album, her… Continue reading Spun: Kate Bush
By Alicia Ward
We all know that girl — you know, the one who’s still with her boyfriend from Grade Eight and finds herself contemplating more white dresses than Fibonacci squares during midterms — and the one that you may have tried to talk out of leaving school in pursuit of the nuclear family. Director and playwright Brooklyn… Continue reading Wedded bliss? More like wedded hit-or-miss
By Sean Willett
Not everyone in Canada knows what it’s like to live on a reservation. Due to a lack of education on modern aboriginal issues and the unfortunate pervasiveness of negative stereotypes of First Nations peoples, most citizens are unaware of the internal strife and conflict present in some aboriginal communities. Blackstone, an Albertan television show created… Continue reading Blackstone
By Erick Maleko
The Canadian Alliance of Student AssociationsÂ, comprised of 26 students’ unions accross Canada, is lobbying the federal government to reduce fees for international students. The federal government and university administration say international students are not taxpayers, and therefore should not receive subsidized rates for tuition. International students pay tuition fees three times higher than domestic… Continue reading International student fees questioned
By Josh Rose
Thanks to kinesiology researcher Joan Vickers from the University of Calgary and police psychologist Bill Lewinski, the Calgary Police Service’s police training program is now even more cutting edge. Vickers and Lewinski found that elite shooters in high-pressure life or death situations make the best decisions because of where they focus their eyes and attention.… Continue reading Police improve aim through Quiet Eye
Running north and south along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, the Old North Trail was an important transportation corridor for the Blackfoot people for many generations. Today, numerous archeological sites dot the historic route, which runs from the Yukon all the way to New Mexico. The distribution of these sites has intrigued University… Continue reading Mysteries of the Old North Trail
In Canada, there are over 600 cases of Aboriginal women who have disappeared or been murdered over the past 30 years. Feb. 14 is a day to remember the missing women, and move towards changing the patriarchal and racist attitudes prevalent in society. According to the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s database, Aboriginal women represent… Continue reading Remembering missing and murdered women
The most storied rivalry in Alberta is Edmonton versus Calgary. It’s the Stampeders, Flames and Roughnecks against the Eskimos, Oilers and Rush. Rivalries are most commonly geographical by nature but can be fuelled by a botched call, a bad trade or a dose of trash talking. Competitive sports of all types have healthy rivalries that… Continue reading The collegiate battle of Alberta