By Zoey Duncan
Mount Royal University finally has a sharp new logo to stamp on all correspondence and propaganda. Whether you like the new insignia is beside the point now, because you had plenty of time to give your input. In fact, about 1,600 people – over 70 per cent of whom were students – [...]

When Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach made a campaign pledge in February 2008 to graduate an additional 225 doctors and nurses annually over the next four years in an attempt to address the province’s health-care shortage it seemed like an empty promise.
While the jury is still out on Stelmach’s “solution,” there is no denying that a [...]

If you aren’t using social networking sites in your job search, you may be missing out on opportunities.
The rapid rise of social networking over the past five years is nothing short of a phenomenon. In fact, according to the Nielsen Company, the New York-based media conglomerate, social networking and blogs are now more popular than [...]

Opinion
We are seeing signs of the upcoming 2010 Olympics in Vancouver everywhere. I think the mascots are frigging adorable, the T-shirts okay and the hoodies a little scary, but the sense of excitement is all around us.
The cherry on this upcoming Olympic cake would be a gold medal. Sure we’ve won medals before but our [...]

Opinion

Mount Royal’s decade-long quest for university status seems to be hitting its zenith.
Inspectors from the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada — the country’s de facto university accrediting body — will soon visit Mount Royal. They will consider whether we are on par with other universities in the country and, more importantly, whether graduate [...]

Writing a book on the “Aboriginal industry” is certainly a worthy and important undertaking. There are lots of “industries” out there in the real world, such as cancer, diabetes, “green,” subsidization, immigration, and to situate the case of Aboriginal people within this industry context would certainly be an important practical and theoretical contribution to both [...]

At the forum we were hoping to provide an overview of our arguments in Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. We were looking forward to scholarly criticisms from Dr. James Frideres and Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn so as to further clarify our position.
Unfortunately, however, Yellowhorn and Frideres chose instead to showboat their [...]