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A bear expert study has found that people using bear spray during grizzly bear encounters are injured far less often than people using firearms.

Master of Planning candidate in environmental design (EVDS), Jennifer Black, has been keeping even busier this semester coordinating the faculty’s Sustainability Seminar Series—which invites sustainability professionals to discuss their ideas, projects and career experience in global thinking and environmental stewardship.

In the centre of Craig LeBlanc’s exhibition Decade, on view now at Jarvis Hall Fine Art, a large-scale handgun, nearly 1.2 metres long, sits on a pedestal.

Normally a symbol of force, violence and fatality, LeBlanc’s foam rubber representation of the weapon is stripped of all its menace, rendered docile and effeminate by the fact that he’s cast it in an unlikely pretty pink.

The saga of the red bridge over the Bow River is finally coming to an end on Saturday when the Peace Bridge opens to pedestrians. Probably no other piece of city infrastructure has generated as much press per dollar of spending as the Peace Bridge. But for its symbolic importance as a measure of where our city is heading, for its functional utility and its aesthetic quality, it was money well spent.

Edmonton's downtown public spaces should be used and celebrated even in the dark of winter, say organizers of Illuminite, a weekend project in which temporary sculptures of light are being built in an alley.

Braving the city's first substantial snow storm of the year, artists worked Saturday in the alley north of Jasper Avenue and west of 104th Street behind the Sobeys store to create installations that, as night fell, lit up the otherwise dark and uninviting space.

Users of the EVDS computer lab are able to print on both the laser printers and the plotters from either the computers in the lab or from their own machines. Instructions for how to configure a laptop are posted in the labs.

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How’s this for a new city slogan: “Calgary, city with nice zoo and big airport near Banff”? It’s not as sexy or as clever as our new city slogan, but at least it’s honest.

The reason we need an image at all is that if we let the truth speak for itself, it wouldn’t be very enticing. This isn’t about slagging Calgary. It is a fine city with a positive, clean appeal and it’s populated by fine and friendly folk. But as a premium tourist destination, truth is, Calgary is unlikely to be high on many bucket lists. But never mind, that’s why we have marketing.

Critics have called him Canada’s greenest architect, and as the managing director of the Vancouver, British Columbia, office of international behemoth Perkins+Will, his business card has more letters appended to his name than a can of alphabet soup: C.M., FRAIC, MAIBC, Architect AAA, MOAA, Intl. Assoc. AIA, BCID, LEED AP. With these impressive credentials, Peter Busby, 59, runs his 88-person division of Perkins+Will with a fi rm design hand and a soft-spoken—even gentle—manner.

Ken Wood, who designed the first Apple notebook computer, the PowerBook 100 and other pivotal Apple products, is speaking on campus Thursday.

Hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), the Sustainable Cities Symposium on March 14 explores the global challenges and opportunities in addressing sustainable development.

It has been 20 years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; the first international summit to address urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development.