By Ryan Pike
Students applying to Alberta universities will soon have fewer hoops to jump through, thanks to a streamlined application process set to launch in the fall. Apply Alberta is a program that will process applications to Alberta’s 21 post-secondary institutions through a government-run website designed to centralize the process. Advanced Education and Technology Minister Doug Horner… Continue reading Centralized applications for post-secondary on the way
Mount Royal College will soon face a signage crisis. Provincial advanced education and technology minister Doug Horner is introducing legislation this spring which would allow MRC and Grant MacEwan College to change their names to include ‘university.’ The proposed Post-Secondary Learning Amendment Act would let institutions that give out baccalaureate degrees to ask the minister… Continue reading MRC name change in the works
By Doug Horner
It is very early morning, and because mornings have recently been robbed of an hour of daylight, I am biking in darkness. Up ahead is a tunnel, a nexus of sorts. On one side exists a quiet tree-lined residential street and on the other the raucous unpredictability of Calgary’s urban centre. I enter the tunnel… Continue reading On riding bikes
By Doug Horner
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian intellectual, a prolific author and essayist and very active in many cultural and political organizations around the world. He was recently in Calgary and gave a lecture at the Vertigo Theatre on his new book A Fair Country, Telling Truths About Canada.During his speech, Saul struck emotional chords with… Continue reading Canada’s mysterious identity explained
By Doug Horner
An oft-forgotten Northern land is now a source of contention for federal politicians. Geologists predict there are vast stores of fossil fuels beneath its seabed and this potentially resource-rich territory is under dispute. The Northwest Passage might also soon become a viable trade route between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Canada has established communities living… Continue reading Canada’s Northern frontier in a war of words
By Doug Horner
The American economy has been through a tumultuous fall. Many economists, journalists and politicians have described the crisis with varying degrees of fervour, but all agree that the situation is serious. Calgary Economic Development vice-president and chief economist Adam Legge remarked that this autumn heralded the fall or take over of revered financial institutions like… Continue reading From Wall Street to Main Street
By Doug Horner
Melting ice in the Arctic is a physical transformation that is drastically changing the political and economic climate of the north. A U.S. geographical survey estimated that one-quarter of the Earth’s undiscovered petroleum reserves– 90 billion barrels of oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas– is quietly waiting under the environmentally fragile Arctic… Continue reading Melting north up for grabs
By Doug Horner
In the wake of the closing of McNally Robinson, the Calgary literary scene may be in for some hard times. B House Publications, the city’s newest publisher, however, is looking like a bright light at the end of the tunnel. At the launch of his new play Writer’s Block, prominent local playright Eugene Stickland began… Continue reading Calgary literature’s shining light
By Sara Hanson
As China’s economy continues to experience unprecedented growth, the University of Calgary has decided to contribute its two cents. Earlier this month, U of C vice-president research and international Dr. Dennis Salahub travelled to China with Advanced Education minister Doug Horner to develop exchange programs with selected Chinese institutions. Salahub first visited Bejing to renew… Continue reading Chinese exchange programs in U of C’s future
By Chris Adams
A bill proposing controversial changes to public sector pensions, including those affecting University of Calgary support staff, left the Alberta legislature last week and will enter a public hearing process for review over the summer. Bill 9 — also known as the Public Sector Pension Plans Amendment Act — drew criticism from union workers and… Continue reading Public- sector pension bill removed from legislature