By Mike Smith
With the CFL regular season over and done with, it’s time for some playoff football. What a regular season it was, though. With many tight games and some great Labour Day classics, it was one of the better CFL seasons in recent memory. But now all that is over and teams that did make the… Continue reading Sportspinion: CFL playoff predictions
By Douglas Long
This past weekend, The University of Calgary men’s soccer team came up short and finished fourth place in the Canada West Championship, hosted by the University of Alberta. The Dinos suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds during an attempt to gain a spot in the CIS National Championship Tournament.… Continue reading Soccersaurs fail to advance at qualifier
By Douglas Long
For all the avid skiers and snowboarders out there keen for an early start, it’s time to get your boots ready and your winter tires on. Lake Louise opened this past weekend, the first mountain of the Canadian Rockies to officially open. Nakiska was poised to open, but was unable due to lack of snow.… Continue reading Powder Report: Lake Louise opens
It didn’t take long for Naheed Nenshi to run into his first major setback as mayor. The southeast C-Train line he so fervently promised during his campaign is proving difficult to attain. Currently the amount of funding allocated for transit will not be enough to finish the southeast line for another 10 years while making… Continue reading Nenshi can’t make the trains run on time
Sitting in the crowd at MacEwan Hall on Wednesday Nov. 3 was a little strange. The day after historic losses by the Democrats in the midterm elections, Howard Dean and Fred Thompson addressed assembled students, business people and policy wonks. What they had to say was a little unexpected. Thompson, the former Republican senator from… Continue reading Republicans crash their own party
By Jocelyn Hunt
Remembrance Day is a day to remember and thank the men and women who have served our country during times of war and peace. We have all learned about this in school and most people can probably recall John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields, which asks future generations not to forget the fallen soldiers from… Continue reading The meaning of Remembrance Day
It has been common practice over the course of modern Israel’s relatively short history to accuse critics of the state of anti-Semitism or, in the case of Jewish writers like Gideon Levy and Noam Chomsky, Jewish self-hatred. Reducing political criticism of Israeli foreign policy to an ethnic issue has become so typical that we hardly… Continue reading Criticizing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic
[Re: New community radio station focuses on community content, Nov. 4 by Andy Williams] While I am encouraged that another radio club has been established by a dedicated group of music hobbyists in a garage in SE Calgary to have some fun playing commercially released songs that XL Radio might not be playing this month,… Continue reading Letter: What makes community radio
The University of Calgary announced record enrolment at the school with 30,838 attending students, compared to 27,763 in 2007, an increase of over 11 per cent. U of C registrar and associate vice-provost enrolment David Johnston said the boost is largely due to increased retention rather than new students entering the school. “As the economy… Continue reading Enrolment increases to record numbers
The Students’ Union has extended the deadline on submissions for Quality Money grants to Nov. 15. The Quality Money program is a partnership between the University of Calgary board of governors and the Students’ Union. Each year, approximately $1.5 million is collected from tuition for students, staff and faculty to spend on projects that enhance… Continue reading Quality money deadline extended to November 15