Category: Voices

  • Dentistry Students Raise $60,000 for Local Charity

    Dentistry Students Raise $60,000 for Local Charity

    (School of Dentistry) Funds to help provide dental care in remote areas and countries By Tarwinder Rai, University of Alberta First year School of Dentistry students Nicholas Churchill, Brenda Pham and Emily Ervin present a $60,000 cheque to Kindness in Action vice-president Dave Maskell. The dental students at the University of Alberta are proving to…

  • Planet Waves: Can You See What Truly Nourishes You?

    Planet Waves: Can You See What Truly Nourishes You?

    Note: Planet Waves Horoscopes has moved from their regular Friday schedule. Please watch for them early next week!  By Amanda Painter Generally speaking, our culture has difficulty recognizing what truly feeds and nourishes it. From reality TV shows to fast food, from misogynistic song lyrics to obsessions with brand-name fashions and technology, it can be…

  • Reel Reflections: Film from Books

    Reel Reflections: Film from Books

    By E. P. Whinters Movies come from two sources – they either start as a visual story, created for the screen through what you see and what the characters say, or they start as a print-source first, a book or a comic. The two movies that I will reflect on today started as novels, Room by…

  • CPAWS Statement re: Federal Court Decision on Maligne Lake Legal Challenge

    CPAWS Statement re: Federal Court Decision on Maligne Lake Legal Challenge

    EDMONTON – Conservation groups remain hopeful that a concept proposal for overnight commercial accommodations at Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park will be stopped after a Federal Court ruling confirmed that proposals violating park management plans cannot be approved. The February 8 ruling came in response to a legal challenge brought by the Canadian Parks…

  • Fuelling Women Champions

    Fuelling Women Champions

    Across Canada, women and girls from all walks of life, at all skill levels, enthusiastically reach for their goals through sport. Sports play a vital role in a healthy lifestyle; yet, Canada’s dairy farmers discovered that all too often, women’s sports are overshadowed by media coverage and funding of men’s sports. So dairy farmers from…

  • Infographic: What is Functional Zero?

    Infographic: What is Functional Zero?

    Vineeth Sekharan York University; Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub This week’s infographic comes to us from Community Solutions and looks at ending veteran homelessness. Community Solutions is an organization located in the United States that is working towards a future without homelessness. The organization takes a community-based approach for identifying the best tools that can…

  • Red Letter Campaign Launched to Shut Down Puppy Mills across Canada

    Red Letter Campaign Launched to Shut Down Puppy Mills across Canada

    Ruby’s Love Letter campaign named after rescued survivor February, 2016 BEWDLEY, ON–(February 7th) marked the kick-off a national Valentine`s Day pressure campaign to bring a close to the grim and disgusting reality of puppy mills in Canada forever. MPs, MPPs and MLAs will soon find their offices filled with red envelopes containing letters mailed from concerned…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Unique Ideas

      By Reena Nerbas Magnetic Cat Hair Dear Reena, I own two very furry cats. I always put the toilet seat down when the toilet is not in use but when I lift up the seat it is covered with fur. Seems like fur is attracted to the seat, any tips for how to stop…

  • Canada’s New GHG Emissions Requirements Will Inflict Widespread Pain

    As always, the Trudeau government announces lofty goals short on devilish details By Kenneth P. Green, Senior director of Natural Resource Studies, The Fraser Institute CALGARY, Alta./ Troy Media/ – On Jan. 27, the federal government injected yet another syringe full of uncertainty into the country’s oil and gas sector, announcing a nebulous plan to overhaul Canada’s…

  • How Will the Needs of Seniors with Dementia Who are at Risk of Becoming Homeless be Met?

    How Will the Needs of Seniors with Dementia Who are at Risk of Becoming Homeless be Met?

    By Emma Woolley, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub: York University This question came from Glenda L. via our latest website survey: “How will the needs of seniors with dementia who are at risk of becoming homeless be effectively met? These are vulnerable individuals who may need a high level of support to obtain and retain housing.” Many…

  • Local Musicians play Inglewood’s Ironwood Stage for Easter Seals Alberta

    Local Musicians play Inglewood’s Ironwood Stage for Easter Seals Alberta

    6th Annual Give a Kid a Lift Fundraising Concert Calgary, AB – Join us on Sunday, March 20, 2016, from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. at the Ironwood Stage and Grill for the 6th Annual Give a Kid a Lift Fundraising Concert helping provide a residential elevator in the home of a local family with a…

  • Explore Alberta with affordable, all-ages activities this Family Day!

    Explore Alberta with affordable, all-ages activities this Family Day!

      Make this Family Day weekend a staycation and enjoy all Alberta has to offer by visiting our provincial museums, historic sites and parks for special events, including Family Fishing Weekend! “Family is the cornerstone of our lives, our communities and our society. Let this Family Day serve as a reminder that spending time with…

  • On Second Thought …Comparisons Gone Wild

    On Second Thought …Comparisons Gone Wild

    By Jonathan Pollard “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.” – Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist Ronald Reagan, as U.S. president, likely drew heavily from his successful acting career during WWII – a time during which Americans experienced marginal tax rates as high as 90% – while promoting his economic platform in…

  • Millarville Horticultural Club Offers Landscaping Grants to Non-Profits

    Millarville Horticultural Club Offers Landscaping Grants to Non-Profits

      Millarville Horticultural Club has a landscaping grant available to non-profit organizations in the MD of Foothills, west of the 5th meridian and north of highway 540. The maximum grant available is $750. This could be used for hard landscaping, permanent plant materials and/or installation costs. If you are interested in applying for this program…

  • Reel Reflections: The New Action Hero

    Reel Reflections: The New Action Hero

    Mad Max: Fury Road By E. P. Whinters An action movie up for Best Picture this year? Are they serious? Many people thought other, more “worthy” films should have been nominated instead of this film … maybe Straight Outta Compton? Or Carol? Or Sicario? Or even Star Wars?? But no – Mad Max: Fury Road gets…