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Blooming new Filipino girl group Bini performs in Winnipeg
August 2024
Remember when Korean pop music — K-pop — took the world by storm? Well, a new melodic hurricane is bound for landfall in Canada. Bini, an emerging girl group from the Philippines, is performing Friday night at the Centennial Concert Hall, and fans among the Filipino community in Winnipeg are looking forward to jamming along.
Winnipeg outreach group's new boat takes to the river to help people in encampments
July 2024
A Winnipeg outreach group's new motorboat will soon be jetting down the Red River to offer resources like food and harm reduction supplies to people living in encampments on the river's banks. "[The water is] another aspect to the dynamic that folks are finding themselves struggling in. So we're going to test the waters, no pun intended, to see how we can help those folks," said Daniel Hidalgo, founder of the non-profit CommUnity 204.
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MRU Students waitlisted for housing at Residence
August 2023
Mount Royal University (MRU) students who wish to apply for housing on campus this year are likely to be put on a waitlist. MRU Residence, Mount Royal’s in-campus housing, has a total of 950 beds campus-wide from East Residence, West Residence Apartments, and West Townhouses. As of writing, at least 80 students are on the Residence waitlist. One of them, Airdrie resident Cassie Morey, says that the whole experience has been frustrating.
Calgary clinic to shift to $4800 members-only medical service
July 2023
Patients of Marda Loop Medical Clinic received an email on July 24, 2023, offering their membership-based medical service to begin Aug. 1, 2023. Patients who choose to pass on the offer are limited to one day per week of medical care, according to the email. Annual pricing of the membership will rely on the number of membership holders and their dependents— a two-parent household that covers dependent children is priced at $4800, while a single parent household with dependent children is priced at $2400.
App created by MRU students helps tackle food insecurity issues
January 2023
An assignment for a Computer Information Systems (BCIS) course has led four Mount Royal University (MRU) students to create an app that will help in tackling issues relating to food insecurity. BCIS students Diego Anzola, Christian Shammas, Ramin Radmand and Brandon Bodemer have created WeGiveYouEat, an app where users are able to donate their unspoiled and untouched food locally.
Is the Alberta Sovereignty Act something to worry about as an Albertan?
December 2022
United Conservative Party (UCP) leader and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has caused quite a stir after proposing Bill 1: the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. The proposed act has been one of Smith’s front-running policies on her campaigns during the Alberta UCP leadership race back in September 2022. BCIS students Diego Anzola, Christian Shammas, Ramin Radmand and Brandon Bodemer have created WeGiveYouEat, an app where users are able to donate their unspoiled and untouched food locally.
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Healing through Muay Thai
June 2023
After having trained Jiu Jitsu in my own personal time, I learned that the overall MMA culture is illusively tribe-like. And the primary rule of the MMA gyms? Thou shall not step inside with another gym’s merchandise. And that was exactly what I did coming into the local Calgary gym Muay Thai Fight Club, or MTFC. I had my bright red boxing gloves and shin pads, repping my home gym. They were the only pairs I had as getting new ones was too expensive. I was a little embarrassed having to come to the MTFC turf with my gear to be honest, expecting to be chastised for it.
How being alone is important in overcoming your fears of abandonment
October 2023
It feels like I’ve exhaled a great amount of my old self — the abandoned, the unloved, and the deprived parts of me, when I succumbed to the notion of being alone. It doesn’t happen overnight, and you don’t really notice it, until suddenly, your soul just feels lighter than before. This is how I felt when I finally realized that I wasn’t lonely anymore. Instead, I was alone. And while the word ‘alone’ sounds sad, to me it is solitude.
Quitting nic: How I said goodbye to my vape and hi to yarn
March 2024
I remember when I first bought a vape— a pink lemon-flavoured disposable, with 20 mg of nicotine per puff. Never having smoked before, my first puff was barely even considered smoking, inhaling through the mouthpiece and blowing all the nicotine out. “Just keep it in your mouth for a bit,” my friends told me, chuckling at my innocence.