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Staff Picks: YYC Hot Chocolate Fest 2024

Staff Picks: YYC Hot Chocolate Fest 2024

During this year's YYC Hot Chocolate Festival, the Gauntlet staff went around and tried as many spots as we could. Overall, this is what they had to say about the ones they got their hands on. RAMIRO: LAYOUT EDITOR Caramelized Honey and Orange Hot Chocolate — 3.5/5

Gauntlet Mixtape Vol. 20: Soundtrack to University Life

Gauntlet Mixtape Vol. 20: Soundtrack to University Life

November is the midterm season. Late-night study sessions, caffeine-fuelled marathons and the light at the end of the tunnel – a well-deserved break. Here is the Gauntlet Mixtape Vol. 20: Soundtrack to University Life to romanticize your university life as a means to survive this thrilling yet nerve-

Oliver Tree becomes Cornelius Cummings in Alone in a Crowd

Oliver Tree becomes Cornelius Cummings in Alone in a Crowd

The first question you might ask is who is Oliver Tree? You probably already know some of this internet sensation's music, especially if the global pandemic accelerated your transition to TikTok in 2021. Tree's hit song "Life Goes On" trended all over TikTok and

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CIFF 2023: M. H. Murray turns trauma into emotive art with  I Don’t Know Who You Are

CIFF 2023: M. H. Murray turns trauma into emotive art with I Don’t Know Who You Are

Trigger warning: Sexual violence The beginning of I Don’t Know Who You Are starts off on a carefree Friday morning. We see the star of the film, Benjamin, a gay, working-class musician played by Mark Clennon, dancing around his kitchen and cooking breakfast with his cat. Later that

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CIFF 2023: Open your mind to climate optimism with Thomas Acton’s Close The Divide

CIFF 2023: Open your mind to climate optimism with Thomas Acton’s Close The Divide

Before watching Close The Divide, directed, co-written and produced by Thomas Acton, I must admit I had a pretty narrow view of the climate change crisis. My outlook on the future was dim, and I couldn't understand how climate change deniers came to be. I had a

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Beakerhead celebrates ten years of being wonderfully weird

Beakerhead celebrates ten years of being wonderfully weird

Since its liftoff in 2013, Beakerhead has been welcoming Calgarians with open arms to both the strange and exciting elements of science. This nerd-loving festival employs the ingenuity and beauty of the arts to entice a broader audience into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). From Sept. 14 to

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A neurotechnology hackathon coming to a university near you

A neurotechnology hackathon coming to a university near you

NeurAlbertaTech's third iteration of natHacks — the largest neurotechnology hackathon in Canada — is returning to Alberta, running from Nov. 16 to 19. The Gauntlet spoke with NeurAlbertaTech executive members — Yash Mouje, the vice president of media relations, and John Cooper, the chief communications officer — about the hackathon.  NeurAlbertaTech is

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U of C researchers investigate: Are female bones more likely to crack under pressure?

U of C researchers investigate: Are female bones more likely to crack under pressure?

From periods to the patriarchy, females have a lot to put up with. On top of all this, females are four times more likely than males to endure stress fractures. U of C Ph.D. candidate Olivia Bruce, under the supervision of Dr. Brent Edwards, has provided answers as to

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