To give credit where it’s due, Danielle Smith’s victory in the United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership race is a remarkable comeback. As a reminder, our new premier led the Wildrose Party into the 2012 provincial election, an election for which polling said the Wildrose would comfortably win. But
On Oct. 19, the University of Calgary’s IT team’s Department of Paranormal Affairs (UCITDPA) held a short but disturbing press conference addressing the recent Wi-Fi outages in the Earth Sciences building. Senior Phantom Management Director Max Phearson announced that the UCITDPA believes that the connectivity issues stem
Following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing and King Charles III’s subsequent ascension to the British monarchy, there have been two prevailing but contradictory sentiments about the monarchy’s future in the 14 Commonwealth realms. The first is animation, excitement to catch up with the times and replace the monarchy
The new The Lord of the Rings show, The Rings of Power, has become the latest battleground in the perennial culture war. Indeed, The Rings of Power’s reception represents polarization’s murder of nuance — by far the two most popular IMDb user ratings are 1 and 10. The show’
It feels like yesterday that it was March 2020, when I was in 12th grade and arrogantly saying to a friend that the province should shut down the schools so we could get two extra weeks of spring break. The last months of high school, the first year of university
During the course of a school day, you will find yourself using the campus washrooms for various reasons — when you gotta go, you gotta go. We can only hope to help you use the right facilities on campus and avoid the wrong ones. Here’s a list of the best
Despite committing at November 2017’s UN peacekeeping conference to creating a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) of 200 Canadian peacekeepers in the next five years, the government quietly extended its deadline to create the QRF by a year while acting coy on the topic. This may be surprising, given how
Following Hershey’s announcement that they may be unable to meet demands for Halloween candy this year, thousands of children as young as four have taken to the streets, protesting potential Halloween candy shortages. Thus far, the protests demanding Hershey guarantee an adequate supply of candy for this Halloween have
An article written by Jessica Mundie for the National Post on Indigo’s refusal to sell Andrew Lawton’s book The Freedom Convoy generated animated discussion. The responses range from smugly congratulating Indigo for refusing to sell a book sympathetic to the protest, to outraged calls to boycott Indigo for
When I saw that alternative metal band Primus’ A Tribute to Kings tour included a Calgary show — a tour where they would be covering all of Rush’s landmark album A Farewell to Kings — I knew I had to see them. As such, on June 9, I had the pleasure