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A place and platform for students: Saitsa turns 100

1922 marked not only the opening of Heritage Hall, but also the creation of the Students’ Association (today’s Saitsa) which was originally housed within that building. It began as an initiative to bring some levity to student life outside the workshops and classrooms by offering social, literary a…

Masters of murals: Establishing Calgary's art scene

Calgary’s first public art project was by students from the Art Department of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA, as SAIT was known at the time). Their murals can still be seen and admired on the walls of Heritage Hall today. The ambitious program was created by the head of the de…

Growing Up in Heritage Hall: The University Demonstration School

After the Second World War, the Calgary Normal School (a training school for primary and secondary school teachers) returned to the west wing of Heritage Hall as the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education University Demonstration School (UDS). Until 1955, youngsters from…

No. 2 Wireless School at Heritage Hall: Heroes in training

In less than one week at the start of the Second World War, the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA, as SAIT was known then) moved all of its students to temporary classrooms throughout the city. Why? So that the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan could open its No. 2 Wireless Scho…

Architecture of a Queen: A monument for the future

The future looked incredibly bright for Calgary in the early 1920s, and the construction of a majestic new home for the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) was a testament to that. Taking shape high above the bustling city, and built in the Collegiate Gothic style, the school’s castle…

The Castle on the Hill: Third-place prize to first-class institute

SAIT’s roots are as old as the famous Calgary/Edmonton rivalry. After Alberta became a province in 1905, its newly formed government gave Edmonton both the provincial legislature building and the province’s first university. After determined campaigning by Calgarians, the city was awarded the Provi…

Raw Mike Sea 4 Ep 10: Crazy story from Ron Tarrant, flooring Pierre McGuire!

An unbelievable story that rivals a soap opera plot! Ron Tarrant tells a story that shocks Mike Richards and overwhelms Pierre McGuire! CRAZY but real! Ron and Mike talk goalies and an also get into the discussion about #CarterHart

Mike Richards & Ron Tarrant on the future of sports radio

Veteran sports talk host Mike Richards is about to resurface on the airwaves in Calgary after a tumultuous summer for sports media, particularly in Calgary and Vancouver, where Rogers Sports & Media took Sportsnet Radio off the air in both markets. The Raw Mike Richards Show, which Richards had bee…

Back home, here: The Raw Mike Richards Show

The Raw Mike Richards Show debuts on QR Calgary on Saturday, Sept. 5 and then airs every Saturday 11 a.m. to noon. For years, Mike was the voice on 960 in Calgary. With the Calgary Flames calling QR Calgary home for the next five years, it only made sense to bring the sports show back here, back ho…

525 - Richard Stroobant: Teaching the Future

Richard Stroobant has spent more than 40 years in broadcasting, although for a good chunk of that time, most people in radio knew him simply as "Big Dick." And yes, there's a story behind that nickname. Richard and I first worked together in Edmonton in 1994, before he returned to Calgary and becam…