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By Scott Strasser

University of Calgary students looking for help with their income tax returns can find it from an unexpected source — the Students’ Union. The SU has offered a volunteer tax program since 2000. If you’re part of the campus community, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) certified volunteers file your income tax returns for free. The program… Continue reading Go get a free tax return from the SU you turkey

By Gillian McKercher

Gossip feels good. At least, good in a way that virtue cannot compete with: it’s immediate, dangerous and full of exciting contradictions. A story is delicious when it’s distasteful and disgraceful. A forbidden secret tastes better than the biscotti it was shared over — so long as the secret is not about you. From a… Continue reading Finding the substance in the scandal

By Taryn Mahoney

November, formerly a month of mind-numbing sluggishness, has now become a mad scramble of planning to buy things we can’t afford while attempting to work off that extra turkey weight. Being a broke student never stings more than in November, when nothing alleviates the sad reality of trying to justify that costly female Spock Halloween… Continue reading Why November is the suckiest month of all

By Riley Hill

Hungry? Starting May 31, food trucks will return to the University of Calgary campus, bringing an eclectic mix of meals for hungry students and staff outside the MacEwan Student Centre. These diners on wheels first appeared in Calgary in 2011 following a campaign targeted at city officials by YYC Food Trucks creator James Boettcher. 
… Continue reading Food trucks return to campus for the summer

By Alicia Ward

George F. Walker is a playwright known for placing people in impossibly complicated situations that only get worse, while presenting his characters and their choices in a way that forbids the audience from judging them. In the University of Calgary drama department plays Problem Child and Risk Everything, the characters RJ and Denise are in… Continue reading Check into the Suburban Motel

By Alex Hamilton

An NHL scout’s traditional toolkit includes a reliable car, a good pen and a tolerance for countless hours on rough roads and in seedy hotel rooms. They are anonymous to the public when they succeed and often have to find a new employer when they fail. The job is a classic love-of-the-game cliche, perhaps romantic… Continue reading Hockey talent below the surface

By Gauntlet Editorial Board

When Tolstoy dropped out of university, he might have thought to himself that successful students’ unions are all alike, but that every unsuccessful SU is unhappy in its own way. Student elections in high school occurred annually, if begrudgingly, as students fought with one another to see who was most popular. One editor at this… Continue reading Editorial: The SU gets something right, and wrong

The Gauntlet Editorial Board writes (“The SU is Sucking us Dry,” Mar. 3) that most of what the SU does is “miscellaneous crap” that should be handled by the administration. I would counter that this “crap,” including things like the Den, BSD, clubs, awareness days, the used bookstore, the recycling program and concerts (not to… Continue reading Letter: Defending the SU

By Gauntlet Editorial Board

An article in last week’s Maclean’s magazine decried the decline of Canada’s parliamentary system. In the story, a sorry scene of a nearly empty parliament with clusters of MPs working on other projects are occasionally and briefly interrupted when the others show up for question period — also when the cameras appear. These few dedicated… Continue reading The SU is SUcking us dry