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If you’ve ever walked through Building 8 at MacEwan University’s City Centre Campus, you’ve probably seen quite a few students wearing maroon hoodies sitting at the tables near the staircase to the gym. Many of them are athletes who play on one of MacEwan’s sports...
With Royal Canoe’s most recent release, Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit, debuting on Sept. 16, it was something that felt a bit anti-climactic for vocalist Matt Peters. “We’re feeling pretty great,” Peters said, while watching the Toronto...
A 19-year-old Sherwood Park male was taken into custody without incident late Tuesday morning after a threat of violence against MacEwan University was posted to a social media platform. The threat, posted by an anonymous person who self-identifies as a MacEwan...
With Rogers Place opening its doors in September, it felt like Edmonton’s downtown revitalization had taken its first major step. But the revitalization wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for others laying groundwork, like executive director Jason Flammia...
A number of years ago, what was then Grant MacEwan College had few food options. Subway and Burger King were the premier choices, especially during the winter months when the weather sucks and staying at school until the wee hours sucks even more. But as time moved...
Have you ever watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? The one where Ty Pennington, the jack-of-all-trades host of the show, finds a family with a run-down house and builds them the biggest house they can imagine? It felt like that’s what happened with MacEwan and...
When Rob Poole, the mainstay of the women’s basketball team for six years, decided to move on from the program, it was unclear who would step up in the midst of MacEwan’s best years in its short Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) career. The bond Poole shared...
The MacEwan University student missing in Nice, France after a person driving a truck killed 84 people has been identified. Twenty-two-year-old Mykhaylo "Misha" Bazelevskyy has been missing since the attack, and his whereabouts are currently unknown. He was one of...
You've seen their giant, one-dimensional, smiling faces in the halls. You might have thought, "Holy smokes, WTF is that?" Well, we thought the same thing. Read our roasts before you place your votes on March 9 and 10. Amy Beard Too bad you couldn’t post...
Recently, I watched a time-lapsed video of Nicholas White, a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. It was 11 p.m. when he took an elevator down the McGraw-Hill Building in New York, heading down to smoke a cigarette. Instead, he was holed up in a square room, with...
As 2015 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the best musical releases of the year. It was a remarkable time for Canadian artists. Drake released a number one album alongside a heavily anticipated collaboration with Future, breaking records along...
It’s Shawn Gan’s first theatre gig, and after the interview that landed him the job, he still had one question. “How did you find me?” he asked, since he hadn’t applied in the first place. “We Googled ‘Edmonton Chinese musician,’ and your name came up,” the...
As the semester chugs along, the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is often the holiday season. Even if they don’t celebrate anything in December, students can still look forward to the sweet relief of having no school responsibilities. For those that do...
“Fell in Love with New York” is one of the biggest hits from The Zolas’ four-song Wino Oracle EP, but the band was beginning to fall out of love during our interview. The Vancouver-based band is playing the Mercury Room on Oct. 30, but was travelling from...