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The Prairie Joggers, comprised of two friends — Cody Goertzen and Adam Hill — are a self-professed “gritty-folk rock band” from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pair have a specific “thick vintage” sound, which they combine with “retrospective lyrics” and “simple steady, grooves.”. It’s perfect for many occasions, ranging from easy ...
What's with millennials' obsession with tattoos? - The Gateway
Mar 28, 2017 · The United States Navy has changed its body art policies to allow for more and larger tattoos in the hopes of drawing in more millennial recruits. In 2010 about 40 per cent of millennials had at least one tattoo and that number has increased in the last six years. Young Instagram and high fashion runway models are often spattered with tiny ...
Short story review: Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” - The Gateway
Oct 6, 2019 · How do you explain the realities of scientific progress to young children? Mark Oates, a father of two, wrangles with this question as he tells his children how teleportation was discovered in Stephen King’s short story, The Jaunt. The Jaunt takes place hundreds of years in the future, in an alternate version of reality where humans discovered teleportation (or “jaunting”) in …
U of A launches new Indigenous Strategic Plan - The Gateway
On June 24, the University of Alberta launched the Braiding Past, Present, and Future: University of Alberta Indigenous Strategic Plan. Delivered in person on the U of A’s Main Quad and livestreamed to a virtual audience, the new Indigenous Strategic Plan outlines ways for the university to carry out institutional commitments to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action ...
Album Review: As Long as Your Eyes are Wide - The Gateway
Apr 22, 2017 · The newest album from Canadian cult-classic indie band Said the Whale brings a breath of fresh air to the often similar and repetitive anthems of the genre – and this new sound fits the trio like a glove. As Long as Your Eyes Are Wide represents just about every iteration of love, from the exciting and hopeful to the soul-crushingly difficult.
The aesthetics of the keyboard “smash” - The Gateway
Nov 4, 2015 · When typing with a QWERTY keyboard, the standard practice is to put your left pinky, ring, middle, and index fingers on the A, S, D, and F keys, respectively, while placing the right ones on the semicolon, L, K, and J keys. All of the fingers are now on the middle row of the keyboard. When typing a keyboard smash, moving fingers in as small of ...
Short Story Review: Stephen King’s “1408” - The Gateway
Oct 5, 2019 · When horror fans think of a haunted hotel story by Stephen King, The Shining is usually the first thing that comes to mind. But decades later, King wrote another tale about a sinister hotel room: one of my favourite short stories of all time, 1408. Released in 1999, 1408 follows Mike Enslin, a paranormal skeptic who travels the United States debunking various hauntings — until he checks into ...
Lawsuit to resolve Campus Saint-Jean funding issues reveals …
Aug 22, 2020 · The Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) Caucus issued a statement in support of the ACFA. It is calling on the province to reverse its funding cuts to post-secondary which are forcing the U of A to cut funding to Campus Saint-Jean. Marie Renaud, NDP critic for Francophone issues, described the cuts as “wrong” and said in a statement the ...
Reconciliation in healthcare is essential for Indigenous …
Sep 30, 2021 · “The fact that there’s not enough health care workers to provide services we’ve come to expect, not having facilities available near the places where we live, and not being able to have that visit or follow up with your physician… all of these things are comparative to what Indigenous peoples have experienced, for a much longer time, in a …
Point/Counterpoint: Times New Roman or Garamond? - The …
Oct 22, 2019 · Garamond is a thing of both beauty and utility. It balances the lavish strokes of the most eccentric fonts like Pacifico with the rigidness of the utilitarian choices such as Times New Roman. It is thin, elegant, artistic, and yet still understated enough for business correspondence or academic work. It’s widely used for its exceptional ...