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Greg Lang

1) My campaign slogan is “Calgary needs a social agenda, not just a business one.” More attention to affordable housing is a student concern that I would address. 2) I would like to see more public transit more often, and longer. Extend LRT lines and increase LRT cars. Complete existing and new roads and necessary… Continue reading Greg Lang

Theatre Preview: Greg Nelson: Intimate and unplugged

By Kyle Francis

There can be no sweeter joy than projecting one’s imagination onto a barren page and bringing it to life with words–creating a world within a book is dangerously close to playing God. As much of a head-inflation writing creatively can be, writing to sustain your life is different terrain entirely. Professional writing is a treacherous… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Greg Nelson: Intimate and unplugged

Spun: Greg Davis

By Peter Hemminger

Musically, it’s safe to say Somnia is a failure. The languorous pacing of the tracks, each featuring a single, heavily digitally altered instrument in an extended drone, is so fitting to the album title as to be almost funny. It’s as if the church lady fell asleep at her organ and every so often, twitched… Continue reading Spun: Greg Davis

What he meant was…

By Greg Lang

Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: “There can only be one… election,” October 7, 2004 The article by the Gauntlet news reporter Jodde Mason reads: “I believe the Calgarian City Council about the fault that it’s a totalitarian regime”. The unevenness of this statement should suggest that it is the reporter’s mistranscription. Moreover, though, I kept a… Continue reading What he meant was…

Canadian literature and identity

By Tamara Cottle

Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada was in Calgary last weekend for the Calgary Public Library’s annual One Book, One Calgary event. The event is the library’s city-wide reading initiative. His award-winning novel, The Book of Negroes, was chosen… Continue reading Canadian literature and identity

Film review: Long Distance Revolutionary

By Tamara Cottle

Imagine languishing in a Pennsylvania prison cell on death row for 31 years. Now imagine doing that while being innocent. For those who do not accept their fate at the hands of a terminally flawed justice system, their battle would unquestionably be for personal freedom, doing whatever they could to prove their innocence. Mumia Abu… Continue reading Film review: Long Distance Revolutionary

Baseball beyond borders

By Taylor McKee

Sometimes sport is more than just a game. Each year in August, the Little League World Series draws 11 and 12 year olds from all over the world to Williamsport, Pennsylvania to compete in an internationally televised baseball championship. Last year’s Team Canada was from Langley, British Columbia and was scheduled to face the winner… Continue reading Baseball beyond borders

Age of no consent

By Remi Watts

You have never had consensual sex. The sex you have now is not consensual, nor will you ever have consensual sex so long as you continue to live as you do. Rape, sexual abuse and assault are merely the tip of a sexually violent iceberg. Given the direness of our present circumstances– the inherent barbarism… Continue reading Age of no consent