Back to School! Did you know this about your university?

On behalf of CTYA’s Blogs team, we would like to wish good luck all those students who start school this week, and to those who start next week! We hope this year will be a year filled with success. Before you begin, here are some fun facts about Canadian students and campuses!

The Monster

Written by: Shalini S.

Amma, will you please check under the bed? I think there’s a monster underneath. Amma would always check, and assure me everything was safe. But I knew better, I knew there was a monster lurking somewhere.

May 21, the End of World? It’s Never Too Late.

Written by: Gayathri R.

I’m generally not one to believe in superstitions, so the claim that today (May.21) is “Judgment day” and that the world will end in the “Greatest Earthquake Ever” was not one I truly believed. This isn’t the first time a group prophesized the world was ending on a particular day. Remember Y2K? Or the end of the Mayan calendar? Maybe we just have wait until next year for 2012?

Book Review: Bone China by Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne’s book Bone China is a tale of family, love, and painful choices amidst a period of unrest and war in Sri-Lanka. It centers on Grace, and her family, a once wealthy English-speaking Catholic Tamil family. With rising Sinhalese nationalism and a shift of power from the British, this Tamil family like many others are the victims of ethnic violence, and systematic discrimination that slowly eats at their place in society and government.

A Great Canadian Invention

Inventions are great, they make our lives easier. I mean, without them, our life would just not be the same. But, today we’re not going to talk about the invention of light bulbs, or the telephone, we’re going to talk about another very important invention, one that was invented by a Canadian.