By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor If there is one thing that Calgarians are missing this summer due to the current pandemic, it’s music festivals. From Sled Island to Calgary Folk Music Festival (CFMF), the absence...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor Mount Royal University (MRU) announced on Wednesday that masks are mandatory in all indoor spaces on campus, effective immediately. This mandate doesn’t only apply to students, but also to employees,...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor After MRU decided that online classes would be the safest option for students in the wake of COVID-19, it was announced that the university’s U-Pass program would not be offered...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor As an act of solidarity, many people across Calgary have been calling on others to support Black-owned businesses — and with the launch of Black Owned Market this Saturday, doing...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor Earlier this month, the Canadian Cultural Mosaic Foundation (CCMF), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving race relations in Calgary and Canada, launched an online petition that garnered over 70,000 signatures...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor As Pride Month comes to an end, many Calgarians are looking forward to September — when members and supporters of the LGBTQI2S community come together to celebrate resiliency, community and...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor For the first time since its creation in 1912, the Calgary Stampede is being cancelled this year due to COVID-19. However, it was announced this week that in lieu of...
By Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Layout Editor In the words of Courtney Walcott, a teacher at Western Canada High School, “grief” is what prompted the initiative to create a petition calling for a school-based anti-racism...
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor Before COVID-19 hit and changed life as we knew it, I never worked from home. I hated everything about it — having my work too intertwined with my personal life,...
By Karina Zapata & Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Publishing Editor & Layout Editor George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Trayvon Martin. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. These are only a handful of names being chanted across the globe...
