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While students took time off from school during the summer, several MacEwan University residents remained busy on campus. The rooftop of Building 5 is home to several honeybee hives that were first installed in 2016 as a partnership between Campus Services and the...
MacEwan University’s Students’ Council election is taking place this week! Voting opens on Oct. 12 at 9 a.m. and closes on Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. Voting can be accessed through your MacEwan email. Students’ Council is the highest governing body at the Students’...
It’s October, which means everyone lines up to drink… bubble tea! Move over pumpkin spice lattes, there’s a new fall drink in town. We encountered some incredible highs and some dangerously close spit-takes on our quest to find the best bubble tea that...
Tune up your guitar, oil your valves, or grease up your slide because BandSwap Yeg is back! BandSwap brings Edmonton musicians together in a weekend-long event that celebrates weird instrument combinations, funky song arrangements, and the creativity of local...
The pandemic has brought on lots of unforeseen changes, but for university students, one of the biggest impacts has been the pandemic’s influence on their career paths and the job market in general. There’s no doubt that two years of online schooling and sporadic...
I have a few hang ups with the internet, but the main one is rabbit holes. We’ve all been there. I feel fairly safe making this generalization because the world is a big place with plenty of room for random obsessions. You know how it goes. It’s late at night...
Audrey Ochoa grew up surrounded by music. Her parents were both professional musicians, and with instruments scattered all around the house, it wasalmost inevitable that Ochoa would pick one up and fall in love with it. “Performing is the most genuine way of...
As a long and particularly stubborn winter comes to an end, it’s the perfect time to start pulling out the gardening gloves and get planting. Don’t let a lack of space stop you from taking up gardening. You can start a little patch of green paradise almost...
Edmonton artist AJA Louden started his artistic journey with just a stack of papers. As the first-born child to busy, entrepreneur parents, he would keep himself occupied by drawing. “That was kind of my first introduction to making things,” he says. Today, Louden...
Students are often encouraged to complete their undergraduate degrees within four years. However, over the last few years, students have faced overwhelming challenges that have made this more unrealistic: the pandemic derailed normal, in-person learning, mental...
I love baking. No, really. You don’t need to look further than my search history to see evidence of countless pie-crust rabbit holes, or my laptop bookmarks, which tend to involve more cookie recipes than useful school-related websites. But the thing is, I’m not...
Edmonton has a rich tapestry of queer history. As we celebrate Pride Week at MacEwan University this month, it’s also important to reflect on queer history, both in our city and at MacEwan. “Too often, queer history has been written out of our textbooks,” says Dr....