Reading Time: 4 minutes World-leading U of A researchers and top employers are teaming up to train the next generation of diamond explorers and grow Canada’s $2.5-billion-a-year industry
Month: November 2020
The problem with kindness – and its vast potential
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once we decide to be kind, we find ourselves experiencing belonging. This is what caregivers, paid or unpaid, can teach the rest of society
The trouble with money
Reading Time: 3 minutes We crave, mythologize, demonize and fight wars over money. Why can’t we just treat it with respect and maintain harmony in the home?
Why are we facing lockdowns again?
Reading Time: 4 minutes If our leaders don’t learn any lessons and create better safeguards during a lockdown period, people will keep lashing out
Time to come to terms with Canada’s original sin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Separating one racial group of people from the rest of the nation and expecting a good result was madness then and is madness now
Schitt’s Creek star spikes enrolment in U of A online Indigenous course
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tens of thousands of new students from nearly every country in the world have joined Dan Levy in relearning history from Indigenous perspectives
Do you know what your body just said?
Reading Time: 4 minutes We reveal a lot about our attitudes, emotions and motives by the way we hold our bodies
Interpreting daytime skies
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sky watching isn’t as simple as looking at fluffy clouds – the sky is a complicated place where multiple phenomena are at work
The one simple skill all leaders must harness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Taking a moment to simply breathe is key to make decisions from a place of rational response rather than emotional reaction
Changing the way we think about weight and health
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you are going into physical fitness with only weight loss in mind, you’re setting yourself up for failure