By Sean Willett
The most common species of bat in North America is now threatened with possible extinction — and there is little hope of stopping it. A disease known as White Nose Syndrome has been sweeping across the United States and Canada, killing hibernating bat species by preventing them from maintaining a dormant state during the winter.… Continue reading Bat-killing disease threatens Alberta
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 Sean Willett
It’s a struggle to view cities as products of design. In Calgary, maybe it’s because one may find it hard to believe the terrible bicycle infrastructure and plague-like urban sprawl were planned by rational human beings. Yet cities, like most things in our modern world, are the result of choices made by designers. Whether these… Continue reading Urbanized
By Sean Willett
It sounds like a great evening — going to a show, sitting down with your friends and enjoying the best theatre, music or dance that Calgary has to offer. There’s only one snag — the cost. With the hefty price of tuition and ever-encroaching debt, most students struggle to merely afford their education, much less… Continue reading Claim your empty seat
By Sean Willett
Simon Pegg is an oddity, as far as actors go. He started his career as a cult movie hero, with only a handful of small yet critically acclaimed films to his name. Now he’s starring alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol and helping to break new ground in motion capture technology with Steven… Continue reading Simon Pegg
By Sean Willett
Remember in junior high, when you and some friends decided to start a band? Remember how you lasted about three months before breaking up? That is the case for most young bands, but not for Sunshine Radio. With three of its members fresh out of high school and the other a sophomore at Mount Royal… Continue reading A new day for Sunshine Radio
By Sean Willett
As citizens of Calgary, we sometimes forget how much power the oil industry really has in Alberta. Director David York’s latest film, Wiebo’s War, allows us to see how deeply large corporations can influence the everyday lives of average citizens — and how sometimes, there may be little we can do to stop them. The… Continue reading Wiebo’s War is far from over
By Sean Willett
It would be an understatement to say that talking frankly about death is a taboo in our culture, and this taboo is part of what makes Peter Richardson’s How to Die in Oregon both disturbing and powerful. The documentary, the first in NUTV’s series of monthly documentary screenings entitled “Movies that Matter,” focuses on the… Continue reading Doc review: Movies that Matter’s How to Die in Oregon
Lacking patience, hungry Gauntlet reporters descended on the 18th avenue Smoke’s Poutinerie last week to find out how awesome it will be to have a poutinerie on campus. Montreal Poutine Typically, I’m somewhat of a poutine purist who sticks to the classic fries-curds-gravy combination. However, with so many combinations at Smoke’s, you have to step… Continue reading Poutine reviews
By Sean “how do you spell assistant” Willett
I have a love/hate relationship with Star Wars. While I love the original three films and the universe they have established, there is very little else that is both Star Wars-related and not objectively terrible. So when I heard that Canadian video game developer Bioware was developing a Star Wars massively multiplayer online game, I… Continue reading Star Wars:The Old Republic is refreshingly new