Mount Royal is coming of age. The school’s 100th anniversary is this year, and after many years of hard work, we’re finally a university. Now, MRU has to show us what being a university means.
With that responsibility comes the need to create a new logo. Personally, I’m not a fan of the weird M-shaped, flexing [...]

Halloween. It’s such an interesting and unique evening. People dress up and escape from themselves for a few hours — some as a scantly clad nurse, others as a scantly clad firewoman. While Halloween is full of fun, my favourite part about the spooky holiday is not the costumes, candy or even the alcohol.
It’s reading [...]

It was lucky number 13 in cham­pionship wins for the Cougars men’s soccer team as they won the ACACs on their

home-turf in a come-from-behind gold medal nail-biter.

With the 2-1 win over the SAIT Trojans the team earned them­selves a ticket to Seneca College in Toronto for the national finals.
“[They] faced some adver­sity there, especially [...]

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Howdy sports fans! A big congratulations to the Cougars men’s and women’s soccer teams for bringing home gold and silver from ACAC Championship. The men’s team left for Ontario Monday to start their bid for National gold. Check out this weeks print edition of the Reflector for coach Troy Flannery’s thoughts on the win and [...]

After winning ACAC gold, the Mount Royal Cougars men’s golf team came home from Ontario with a bronze medal in CCAA Nationals.
This is the first time men’s golf has medaled in nationals since 2001.
Hosted by St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario at the Ambassador Golf Club the team had a three-day total of 897 to [...]

The Mount Royal men’s golf team took their 19th gold in the teams’ history during the ACAC Championships Sept. 27 and 28 at the Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek.
The team drove, wedged and putted their way to a very impressive 30-stroke lead to win the tournament at their home club.
Coach Brock Balog [...]

It may be cliché to paint all Canadians as a polite group of people.
It’s hard to believe if you’ve ever been to a NHL game and see the devotion fans express by being rowdy and drunk. But whether you like the stereotype or not, our Canadian music heavyweights are the nice guys everyone says they [...]

Grahm Zilla believes a good way to gauge his latest project, Thunderheist, is to look at the hierarchy on festival flyers.
“You can always tell how big you are by your font size,” says the producer/DJ who shares the stage with rapper Isis.
For Saturday’s portion of this year’s Alberta Virgin Fest hosted at Canada Olympic Park, [...]

While most singer-songwriters cite other musicians as their greatest inspiration, Ontario’s Justin Rutledge finds himself heavily influenced by novels.
Because he reads so much, the 30-year-old said that the literature has rubbed off on him and been infused into the lyrics of his unconventional country-style sound.
“I just read a lot,” explained Rutledge. “If you do something [...]

Seamless integration and fluid, catchy melodies are likely the elements that stick out when first listening to Vancouver-based septet Fond of Tigers, however, guitarist and band leader Stephen Lyons admits that a great deal of the band’s preparation for a set comes at the last minute.
“As soon as something is set in stone I want [...]