Album review: Hi This is Flume by Flume
Flume Hi This Is Flume Future Classic Score: A If someone told me five years ago that I would be positively reviewing a Flume album, I’d say: “Buddy, what are you? Some kind of...
The Reflector
MRU Cougar sports year in review
By Dan Khavkin, Sports Editor Men’s soccer Ryan Gyaki’s boys in blue kicked off their footy season while the rest of us were still soaking in the scorching sun in the final weeks leading up...
How a radical shift in the literary world is reviving poetry
By Sarah Green, Staff Writer We’ve been there — stuck in a high school English class, head in our hands, attempting to dissect the intricate words of Shakespeare, Homer or Dickinson. We’re all familiar with...
2018/2019 varsity season sees unprecedented success
By Dan Khavkin, Sports Editor The 2018/2019 Mount Royal athletics season proved to be the most successful the university has seen since its transition to USPORTS university level seven seasons ago but is also seeing...
How Maren Morris and the rest of the music industry are standing up for women
By Mackenzie Gellner, Contributor Music has the ability to make a person feel like they belong or that they are being understood. Music can uplift you and also put you right into your feelings. Recently,...
Pixar SparkShorts: The shifting tale of stories
By Rosemary De Souza, Features Editor The animation studio that brought us Bug’s Life, Cars, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and The Incredibles, to name a few, has had a couple of its Academy Award-winning creators leave...
Summer events you won’t want to miss in 2019
By Rosemary De Souza, Features Editor In less than a month, school will be officially over — well, at least for university students. So, pack up those bags and put those textbooks aside as it...
The rewarding, fulfilling and stressful reality of summer internships
By Colin Macgillivray, Publishing Editor At the end of April 2018, I had accepted a summer internship for Black Press in British Columbia. I genuinely had no idea what to expect. Initially, I felt nothing...
Aftermath: How authorities of justice and safety look at sexual violence
By Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Staff Writer In the 2015 study of Women’s Media Center on how the U.S. media covers campus rape and sexual assault, they found that 41 per cent of the topics given...
MRU phasing out the tradition of valedictorians at convocation
By Ryleigh Kampman, Staff Writer For years, many MRU alumni have a distinct memory of their graduating class’ valedictorian sending them off at convocation. Usually, an inspiring address to commemorate all the blood, sweat and...
