This is a review for MUSICWORKS CANADA. I signed my daughter up for lessons for 6 months. The…read morelocation closed without notice and MusicWorks will NOT refund me the money for the balance of my daughter's lessons owed. This is TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. If this is how MusicWorks operates, I would not deal with any of their locations. As a Franchisor, they need to honor any dealing any of their locations have with customers.

I have attended a number of gym events at this club. They have always been wonderful hosts and…read morelook out for all the athletes. The new facility is amazing, open and safe. The owner/head coach is kindhearted and their other coaches are amazing.

From the owner: A boutique gymnastic studio, located in Springbank (West Calgary). Acrobatic Gymnastics, tumbling,…read moretrampoline, Aerial circus arts."

I signed up for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) course through the University of Calgary's…read moreContinuing Education department. There are roughly three AI courses that are free, thanks to Microsoft. You will hear a lot about Microsoft Copilot, its AI tool, throughout these courses. I like free courses. I didn't mind learning about Copilot. ChatGPT is the frontrunner these days. It's not my first rodeo (so fitting, as it's Calgary) for me to be a student at an Alberta university. I was with Athabasca University first. I took a couple of undergraduate math courses for interest. I then took a graduate course in program management in IT as my elective for my graduate degree. It's nice to say that I am formally a University of Calgary student. Since this course is free, there isn't a formal grade that you get at the end of it. It's kind of nice to not do assignments, tests, or exams. The course that I took was on AI essentials. It's for anyone who is interested in AI and the tools out there to help you make things easier at work or personally in your life. This course was asynchronous. It meant that we had a three-hour live session through Teams. My session was last Friday. We then had course materials (videos, PowerPoint presentation, and some supplementary materials) to go through at our own pace. I finished everything late Sunday night. I have always loved learning and the course material was fascinating to me. My first time going through graduate school (I was a Master's dropout for a brief period) consisted of declaring AI as my field of specialization for computer science. It's funny how I somehow knew that AI would be a thing, but didn't realize the extent until now. I don't have the same desire to code like I did back then. I do like to see how AI can make my job as a writer better or help me at home. Perhaps AI can fetch a decent recipe for me when I can't think of anything to make or can't be bothered searching for one online. I registered for this course in late January. I chose a date and time to participate in the live online session. The process was straightforward. Within a couple of business days, I got my unique University of Alberta student ID and was asked to create a password after getting a temporary one. Connecting to the Teams session was easy. I used my work Teams account to connect, so I didn't need to install anything. Even if you don't have Teams installed, the link throws you to your browser, so you can technically participate in the chat. One star gets removed for the discrepancy in this online session's start time. The receipt that I got said that this session was at 1 pm Mountain. The syllabus that I got both a week and a day before the live session stated 1:30 pm. I went with the latter. I entered the chat with 177 people. All I saw in the chat were folks debating whether the course started at 1 pm or 1:30 pm. Perhaps it was an oversight of the course instructor and perhaps another person handling the syllabus. It may be the course instructor handling both details and getting them wrong. It's the type of confusion that everyone didn't need on the first and only group session, but got it. Luckily, we didn't miss much. The session was recorded. The course instructor was knowledgeable. However, he had a tendency to say um a lot, which felt like a distraction. Three hours of him talking felt like an eternity. We got five minutes midway through to break, which didn't feel like a break at all. The course materials were great. I liked the videos and sample prompts to feed Copilot and more. I learned a lot. The remaining two AI courses that are free are synchronous in delivery. It means that there are three 3.5-hour sessions to attend live through Teams. I'm not sure whether I feel like attending them. Luckily, I have some time to think about it. I want to check out other courses that this university has to offer. I don't mind taking courses for interest, provided that the tuition is affordable. (96)

My child attended summer bike camp here last summer. This was her 3rd camp at U of C. The other…read morecamps were good. Did not want to go down a steep hill but was told there was no choice. That morning, fell off bike and hit a tree, blood and cuts all over face and body parts. Finger/hand started to turn blue. Cuts all over her palms and they refused to give her more band-aids when the cheap band-aids fell off minutes later. No one called us. We picked up at the end and found our badly injured child. We went to the Children's Hospital for treatment. Stills talks about how horrible it was. Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! I show parents the photos and they gasp.

We had a 29th birthday gathering for our friend during COVID and we thought it would be a cute and…read morefun idea to bring some goats for a visit! The staff was wonderful to work with, the transaction was super smooth, and communication was great. When the goats came, Farmer Ethan was quick to set up and gave us all plenty of time to pet the goats and play in the pen with them. At the end, he let the birthday girl bottle-feed the baby goat and gave her a birthday gift (a cute, branded hat) which was not expected at all. 10/10 would recommend.

Great place!! It's not just for kids either if you like petting animals. Like tiny cuddly goats.read more

The North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre is where I was first discovered... okay it was me discovering…read moremy own enjoyment of painting. I had just moved to Calgary and was looking for something to wile away the hours, so I signed up for a beginners art class through the city. Lucky for me, The NMPAC (they don't call it that - or maybe they do - but I don't really want to type it out again) just happened to be down the street. It was perfect. This place is called an "Arts Centre" for a reason. They've got the facilities to host a plethora of classes from painting to sculpting to pottery. I quite enjoyed when break time came in my evening class and I got to wander the halls a bit and poke my head in to see what other classes were doing or take a look at the more recent projects hanging on the walls. It almost felt like elementary school in that sense... just as fun, but with a bit more skill. Reminiscing has me wanting to take another class soon... time to peruse the fall/winter schedule.

Gave my daughter some camp options for the summer. She loves arts & crafts so the camps at this…read moreart centre offered for her age group seemed like the perfect fit. Needless to say she was over the moon excited and couldn't wait for summer camp. It was also her first ALL day camp. She loved it. By the end of her camp week the amount of art work she had compiled to bring home was mind boggling. Everyone there was super nice & friendly and she was at ease immediately. Parking and drop off was also easy. I'm pretty confident we will be back here for more summer camps and then some! Really great place!

This place is huge and great facilities for this community. Been coming here for hockey for the…read morepast 20 years and has changed a great deal for the best. There is a pool, ice rinks, curling rinks, running track, indoor fields for soccer,lacrosse ruby, wall climbing. Store with sport paraphernalia and skate sharpening. Concession with all sorts of yummy food and goodies. Really enjoying coming to this facility. -Plenty of parking with excellent signage to where you have to go to park your vehicle.

I really love this place...... Usually I run outdoors but sometimes when it's -54 with the wind…read morechill I just splurge it's only five dollars and I can work out for over three hours running laps........ and then I do my stretches and abdominals and I'm always surrounded by very very healthy fabulous friendly not obtrusive staff. Plus they even have a little store where I can go shopping for a bath bathing suits on the first floor. You would not believe how massive this location is they also have curling and gymnastics and community centre and a swimming pool And hockey rinks. Pretty brand-new. And beautiful landscaping outside. And they use the parking lot for an amazing Calgary farmers market on the summer weekends. All in all just exactly the perfect place he would want to have in your community. Thank you!

My daughter started voice lessons and band here a year ago and it is the best thing that could have…read morehappened to her. She loves performing. The staff there is incredible. Great people, amazing class structure and so much fun for all ages.

From the owner: School of Rock is the leader in performance-based music education. We teach guitar, bass, drums,…read morekeyboard and vocals, and our students put on amazing shows at local venues. Our programs, camps and workshops for toddlers, kids, teens and adults make learning to play music fun and create great communities of musicians.