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The process of changing your legal name in Alberta is a lengthy and expensive one It costs $250 to legally change your name in Alberta. Well, for some people it’s less and it depends on why you’re changing it. And how much you’re changing. And what forms you fill...
Outside seating sits empty at Towers Pub after hours. Amanda Erickson/The Griff. After 13 years behind the bar, Jill Brekke says mismanagement and missing gratuities mark a shift in culture at MacEwan’s campus pub. For over a decade, Jill Brekke has tended the bar...
The sun has set on another successful Fall Fest, SAMU’s annual welcome-back bash Evan Watt Photos by Amanda Erickson Here we are. The first month of another year at MacEwan University has come to a close. Classes have been dropped, textbooks have been legally...
The wayfinding mosaic that sits on the first floor of building 9. Amanda Erickson/The Griff A new initiative from the kihew waciston hopes to eliminate the struggle of locating the centre through art Evan Watt Photo by Amanda Erickson Since its construction in...
Pictured: Áine Humble, who won our very first national championship in any sport (1987-1988). With her is head coach Alan Thom. She was recently inducted into our Wall of Distinction last April. How the Griffins’ mythical logo has grown with our institution Ian...
New MacEwan men’s basketball coach David Kapinga. Amanda Erickson/The Griff A new era of Griffins basketball has arrived. The 50th anniversary of the MacEwan Griffins is already shaping up to be a big year; new logo, refurbished gym, and for the men’s basketball...
Photo: Forrester Toews/The Griff The Alberta-set musical will be the third show this season, slated alongside The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Carrie: the Musical, and A Chorus Line. Each year, the halls deep within Allard Hall rumble with the sounds of...
Originally published on January 1, 2025. Walking through the pedway between Building 8 and SAMU, it’s hard not to notice the walls of banners in the David Atkinson Gymnasium. These banners celebrate the many successes in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference...
I’m not the first person to gush over my nostalgia fuelled love of Fallout New Vegas and I won’t be the last. But when I think about it, it’s this game that I owe my eternal love of video games to almost entirely. When I was in high school, Fallout New Vegas...
MacEwan’s best-kept secret might be its fitness classes. Okay, they aren’t exactly a secret. All three of the classes I attended were almost full — but not with students. MacEwan’s fitness centre is super popular among the student body, which you’re well...
Let's make the Griffins’ den roar once more Deep in the belly of Rogers Place, far from the main arena where thousands of fans pack the stands 75 nights a year for Oilers and Oil Kings home games, lies a small, unassuming ice rink. The City of Edmonton’s logo is at...
Trans people are saying they had it rough, and today’s youth will have it worse. All first-person perspectives in this story are those of writer Evan Watt. It was getting better When you are young, transgender, and terrified of yourself, the phrase “it gets better”...
MacEwan’s student body proudly displays the Griffin's name across their chests, but where is the support on game day? That Griffins tackle sweatshirt everyone on campus wears is $55. Do you know how many Griffins games you could go to for that money? All of them....
Looking back on Alberta’s role in the Ghostbusters franchise The Alberta film industry is heating up, and the Alberta Film Commission is gearing up for its “biggest year yet.” More and more locations featured in film are becoming recognizable to the average...