By Ricky Hon
Gary Mar is one step closer towards making history by becoming the first person of Chinese descent and therefore, a non-caucasian, to occupy the office of premier in Alberta. Mar captured 40.8 per cent of the vote this past Saturday at the Alberta pc leadership election with Alison Redford (18.7 per cent) and Doug Horner… Continue reading Mar? Principles before history
Where does science really fit in? To be able to discuss the validity of science, we must first determine to which shelf of truth science belongs. In other words, how far science can go in asserting certain things to be true. In which realms may science find itself at a loss for words or out… Continue reading Limits of the scientific method
We’ve always enjoyed a good scandal involving politicians. The media has too — it makes their job so much easier. Without microphone gaffes, sex scandals and hissy fits caught on tape, they’d have to resort to actually reporting policy, analysing debates and doing their job. But who wants to read about that? The latest Ottawa… Continue reading You call that a scandal?
Last week Post Media reported that two University of Calgary research accounts were used between 2005 and 2007 for a lobbying campaign funded primarily by the oil and gas industry. The campaign — which took place in part as the Kyoto Accord was being considered — sought to paint the scientifically-accepted view that climate change… Continue reading The proper role of research
Maybe it’s the fact that they have been hailed as the successors to Canadian legends Blue Rodeo, or maybe it’s that I saw them absolutely kill it at a festival this summer, but it seems my expectations were a little too lofty for the fifth album by cult indie-rockers Cuff the Duke.Frontman Wayne Petti’s vocals… Continue reading Cuff the Duke
Oh Fortune is definitely a Dan Mangan album: clever, intelligent lyrics; dark humour; sarcasm and satire, along with Mangan’s trademark sincerity — everything fans have fallen in love with thus far. But this album is immensely different in many ways, filled with denser, richer sounds; full of experiments of texture, emotion and phrasing; stretching the… Continue reading Dan Mangan
Side one, or Mourning Song, begins by inviting all ears to an adventure in the woods on an autumn afternoon. The band does a wonderful job setting the scene for imagination to flow. It also embraces a theme that encompasses situations, feelings and words that most people have related to at some point in life… Continue reading We are the city
By Sean Willett
It would be an understatement to say that talking frankly about death is a taboo in our culture, and this taboo is part of what makes Peter Richardson’s How to Die in Oregon both disturbing and powerful. The documentary, the first in NUTV’s series of monthly documentary screenings entitled “Movies that Matter,” focuses on the… Continue reading Doc review: Movies that Matter’s How to Die in Oregon
I grew up with action movies. While my favourite will always be Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Bloodsport (highly recommended over Bloodsport 2), I’ve memorized parts of Bruce Willis’s Die Hard as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Commando and Total Recall. My memories of ’80s action films may be rose-coloured due to nostalgia, but I’ve still found contemporary… Continue reading Film review: Kill me now, Killer Elite
Just outside the tiny trucker’s town of Edson, Alberta lays an abandoned slaughterhouse. The perfect place, according to director Signe Olynyk, to lock oneself in a freezer as a cure for writer’s block. A little unorthodox, perhaps, but the script she emerged with after some time in her icy self-imposed prison soon became the based-on-reality… Continue reading Below Zero