What do you think of when I say the word ‘ballet’? Graceful dancing, tutus, and classical music, right?

The world is on fire and we aren’t the driver at the wheel. A precious few people around the world seem to determine the fate of our environment and economy, and any one regular person, especially a struggling student, has little impact.

Everybody knows that wine is a part of the cultural opportunities of life in the Okanagan. But thanks to the Wine Research Centre, wine is also part of the academic opportunities at UBCO.

"Fundamentally, a critic must not represent a character as if they are a real person, or a text as if it is reality. The literary analyst, i.e., an English major, must identify the fictitious nature of the character and from whom the character was created, i.e., the creative writer."

There is an ignorance circulating in North America about how prevalent the English language is in the world. And, just because someone has an accent different from yours, that does not mean they, like me, learned the language as a second language. In fact, many of the people who I have talked to feel degraded when told their English is good because, of course it is, it’s one of their first languages.