Eight Over-the-Top Pop Culture Moments of 2021
By Emme Larkins, Contributor It has been a long year. The COVID-19 chaos from 2020 only seemed to have heightened in 2021 as bad news continued to flood our screens. With the transition to...
The Reflector
A Canadian Icon: The story behind the career of Anne Murray
By Emme Larkins, Contributor As 2021 came to a close, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) dropped a poignant story of a Canadian music icon. A woman who broke ground for those perhaps better remembered...
How Netflix can learn from the mistakes of Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender
By Spencer Yu, Contributor Avatar: The Last Airbender is considered one of the highest rated animated series in the six to 11-year-old target demographic and is widely regarded as one of the best animated...
The profound connections we make through books and other media
By Taylor Charlebois, Staff Writer A world without books is inconceivable. That’s something I’ve felt my entire life. More than twenty years later, my feelings have yet to change. But I, and my life,...
Four easy goal categories that can make 2022 your best year yet
By Abbie Riglin, Staff Writer It’s that time of year again! Everything feels new, the holiday stress is over, and you might get a chance to rest up before regular life starts up again....
Coping with the “winter blues” in Alberta
By Zach Poole, Contributor Every year as the seasons change and the weather gets colder, it seems that our emotions change with them. Some of us get lazy and some get sad. But it...
MRU lets go of politically divisive professor
By Keoputhy Bunny, News Editor Frances Widdowson has been let go from her tenured position as an associate professor at Mount Royal University (MRU). Widdowson made waves in 2020 by criticizing the growing Black...
Kazakhstan’s Future is Uncertain Amid Violent Demonstrations and Mass Arrests
By Matthew Hillier, Staff Writer After months of steadily increasing tension in Kazakhstan, last week has seen a rapid explosion of both political and social unrest as the Central Asian nation unravels into massive...
New COVID-19 wave crashes into Calgary; campus moves online until Jan. 24
By Keoputhy Bunny, News Editor Healthcare systems are overwhelmed, new COVID-19 measures are in place and schools are closing. The fifth wave is here. At the time of writing, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Unwrapping the NBA’s Christmas Day matchups
By Jed Mabazza, Staff Writer Christmas is around the corner and that means the much-awaited NBA Christmas games are too. These games will surely dial the intensity up a notch to what has already...
