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On Wednesday, the former MacEwan University student who threatened mass violence against the institution last year pleaded guilty to uttering threats. John Quest, who was 19 at the time of the incident, appeared in front of a judge at the Provincial Law Courts of...
On Dec. 15, 2016, the MacEwan University Board of Directors approved a 15 per cent increase in international tuition fees over a two-year period. The now-approved proposition was introduced nearly three months earlier, on Sept. 29, and would see international...
A few months ago, I was watching an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I was entertained, as usual. Then, Oliver started discussing Donald Trump’s comedy flop at a Catholic charity event. I tensed up. Please don’t do it, John, I thought. Please, don’t....
For years, MacEwan University students who wished to pursue fine arts or communications studies were relegated to an unwieldy orange building in Edmonton’s west end. Eventually, the communications studies people jumped ship to City Centre Campus (CCC), but the fine...
Imagine you’re a musician who was born and raised in Canada. Imagine you put out an album chock full of Canadian collaborators. Imagine the album’s first single gets to no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Certainly, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission...
Canadian media seems to be flourishing on the global stage. London, Ont.’s Justin Bieber and Toronto’s The Weeknd both made Forbes’ World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities Of 2016 list. Meanwhile, Canadian authors like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje have seen...
In December 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report on Canada’s history of the residential schooling of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children. The initial summary of the report was released in July, and it came with a list of...
The MacEwan Sexual Health Club is an inclusive, accessible resource for sex-positive information for people of all genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, and ethnicities. So, what do you do with the MacEwan Sexual Health Club? AH: My official title is...
When I decided to write a piece on social wellness, I honestly wasn’t expecting it to be so hard. I expected it to be pretty sequential: I summarize my pitiful high school years, and then I talk about my wonderful time at MacEwan University. Compare, contrast;...
Here’s a secret that might shock everybody: I don’t like breaking my schedule. If something’s going to keep me from going home by 6 p.m. on a school night, it had better be worth my time. Fortunately, our play-through in one of the SmartyPantz escape rooms was very...
There are a lot of fun things to talk about when it comes to food. However, food insecurity is not one of them. For a growing number of students at MacEwan University, though, it is an ever-present concern. When times are tough, students can turn to the Students’...
This summer was a major period of recognizing, understanding and celebrating transgender people in popular media. Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic athlete and transgender woman, almost broke the internet with her spectacular coming-out on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July...
On Wednesday, the former MacEwan University student who threatened mass violence against the institution last year pleaded guilty to uttering threats. John Quest, who was 19 at the time of the incident, appeared in front of a judge at the Provincial Law Courts of...
On Dec. 15, 2016, the MacEwan University Board of Directors approved a 15 per cent increase in international tuition fees over a two-year period. The now-approved proposition was introduced nearly three months earlier, on Sept. 29, and would see international...
A few months ago, I was watching an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I was entertained, as usual. Then, Oliver started discussing Donald Trump’s comedy flop at a Catholic charity event. I tensed up. Please don’t do it, John, I thought. Please, don’t....
For years, MacEwan University students who wished to pursue fine arts or communications studies were relegated to an unwieldy orange building in Edmonton’s west end. Eventually, the communications studies people jumped ship to City Centre Campus (CCC), but the fine...
Imagine you’re a musician who was born and raised in Canada. Imagine you put out an album chock full of Canadian collaborators. Imagine the album’s first single gets to no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Certainly, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission...
Canadian media seems to be flourishing on the global stage. London, Ont.’s Justin Bieber and Toronto’s The Weeknd both made Forbes’ World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities Of 2016 list. Meanwhile, Canadian authors like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje have seen...
In December 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report on Canada’s history of the residential schooling of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children. The initial summary of the report was released in July, and it came with a list of...
The MacEwan Sexual Health Club is an inclusive, accessible resource for sex-positive information for people of all genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, and ethnicities. So, what do you do with the MacEwan Sexual Health Club? AH: My official title is...
When I decided to write a piece on social wellness, I honestly wasn’t expecting it to be so hard. I expected it to be pretty sequential: I summarize my pitiful high school years, and then I talk about my wonderful time at MacEwan University. Compare, contrast;...
Here’s a secret that might shock everybody: I don’t like breaking my schedule. If something’s going to keep me from going home by 6 p.m. on a school night, it had better be worth my time. Fortunately, our play-through in one of the SmartyPantz escape rooms was very...
There are a lot of fun things to talk about when it comes to food. However, food insecurity is not one of them. For a growing number of students at MacEwan University, though, it is an ever-present concern. When times are tough, students can turn to the Students’...
This summer was a major period of recognizing, understanding and celebrating transgender people in popular media. Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic athlete and transgender woman, almost broke the internet with her spectacular coming-out on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July...