Month: January 2010

Women’s hockey team snap 13-game losing streak with back-to-back wins over the Cougars

By Chris Pedersen

The University of Calgary women’s hockey team gained a much-needed confidence boost last weekend. On the back of superb goaltending by Katie Urness, the Dinos defeated the University of Regina Cougars 3-2 and 3-0 in back-to-back games. Urness earned her first Canadian Interuniversity Sport shutout. The wins end the Dinos 13-game losing streak, which stretched… Continue reading Women’s hockey team snap 13-game losing streak with back-to-back wins over the Cougars

Swimmers look to repeat as Canada West champions

By Jon Roe

It’s a fairly safe thing to say that the Dinos are favourites to repeat as Canada West champions in swimming this weekend at the University of Lethbridge, for both the men’s and women’s sides. Their top rival, the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, have 14 new swimmers on their roster and a new coach and… Continue reading Swimmers look to repeat as Canada West champions

Marquee match Saturday at the Jack

By Jon Roe

Here come the Thunderbirds. Number one in the country. Unbeaten at 11-0 so far in this men’s basketball season. Runners-up at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship last season. The team that knocked the Dinos out of the tournament. The team the Dinos beat to take the conference title last year. The team that knocked the… Continue reading Marquee match Saturday at the Jack

A clash of the titans!

By Rhiannon Kirkland

China is known to limit freedom of speech and has attacked activists’ rights in the past. The battle over censorship in China recently took a new turn with cyber attacks on the Gmail accounts of known Chinese dissidents. In response, Google said it is no longer willing to censor its Google China website and will… Continue reading A clash of the titans!

Learning to love political elitism

By Kim Nursall

In light of Conservative MP Tony Clement’s comments detailing who exactly cares about prorogation — “I know it’s a big issue with the Ottawa media elite and some of the elites in our country” — it is painfully obvious that being labelled an “elite” is a political insult. Clement’s words are offensive to Canadians. They… Continue reading Learning to love political elitism

A letter to NBC

By Ryan Pike

Dear NBC, The past few years have seen your stock fall in the eyes of television viewers. Your once-proud network now boasts only a single block of solid programming — Thursday’s line-up of Parks & Recreation, The Office, Community and 30 Rock — after a series of poor decisions. And let’s face it, you really… Continue reading A letter to NBC

On Haiti, God, and the case for aid

By Eric Mathison

Underlying all earthquakes is the idea of Fault,” says a character in Salman Rushdie’s novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which begins with an earthquake that kills the female protagonist, and then jumps back to trace her life from beginning to end. Rushdie is a master story-teller who wonderfully describes the search all people face… Continue reading On Haiti, God, and the case for aid

Editorial: Effective righting get’s the axe

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

The effective writing requirement was never really to useful. If a student made it through high school English with a fair enough grade than there was no problem and if they didn’t than they simply had to pass one redundant test. Redundant because if the student was so incapable of writing a coherent piece of… Continue reading Editorial: Effective righting get’s the axe