The key to happiness
A short explanation on the art of practicing Hygge | Emma Marshall, Arts Editor | The winter air drapes our city in white and coaxes the geese away. Calgarians dust off their winter jackets, a task...
Tagged: culture
Car culture in Calgary
Rev your engines and knock off your rust; Calgary’s car culture is growing and ever present. You just have to know where to look
A Haunted History: Halloween’s roots and rituals around the world
By Emma Marshall, Staff Writer When you think of Halloween, what comes to your mind first? Is it the candy, the costumes, or the scary movie marathons? This is what western Halloween is boiled...
Shaping a New Narrative: How One Woman is Redefining Indigenous Reconciliation through Business, Music, and Film
By Emma Marshall, Staff Writer Through her impactful music and film, Sandra Sutter has become a voice of Indigenous resilience. However, her behind-the-scenes work in the corporate world is laying the foundation for a...
My heritage is not your fetish; the microaggressions I have experienced as a Filipina
By Mikaela Delos Santos, Publishing Editor I will start off with frankness to avoid being accused of hypocrisy. I have a white boyfriend and have had previous relationships with white cis males around my...
MRU celebrates International Education Week
Khai Choual, Contributor & Mikaela Delos Santos, News Editor Mount Royal University (MRU) celebrated International Education Week (IEW) last Nov. 7-9 along with many institutions worldwide as a way to illustrate cross-cultural learning and...
Inaugural SAMRU anti-racism event invites BIPOC students to share experiences
By Noel Harper, News Editor When Alannah Providence-Toho began her studies at Mount Royal University (MRU), she attended a class in which a discussion about Inuit peoples took place. The professor, Providence-Toho said, referred...
Celebrating Black History Month in Calgary
By Emmanuella Kondo, Contributor February is Black History Month, and though COVID-19 has kept us all apart, there are still plenty of ways to celebrate Black culture in Calgary.. Several organizations and communities are...
What is cultural appropriation anyway?
By Karina Zapata, Publishing Editor Ah yes, Halloween. It’s officially that time of year when everyone talks about cultural appropriation — a complex term that’s easy to understand in retrospect, but is initially more...
5 ways to support arts and culture organizations in Calgary
By Karina Zapata, Layout Editor As a fourth year journalism student and the latest arts editor of the Reflector, it’s only fitting that my summer internship was at none other than an arts and...
