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Delania Anders as a Clown, Vanessa Yaremchuk as Patrick Baetman, Nancy Ward as Mima (Perfect Blue), Anna as T-Boe (iCarly). Griffin's Landing. The Griff/ Virginia Boden Some of the coolest costumes around campus. Another Halloween has come and gone at MacEwan. So...
Illustration by Virginia Boden/The Griff This is my first year at MacEwan. Much like most first-year students, it's been a big adjustment. I moved five hours away from my home and had to make new friends, all while navigating a huge campus and learning...
Camille Villoso, MacEwan University student, appears stressed while studying, balancing notes and digital work during a challenging study session. Edmonton, AB. October 16, 2025. Alexia Pang/The Griff Where is the line between just “busy” and “overwhelmed”? The...
Local fashion designer and MacEwan alum Alliyah Lecky puts on one last show in Edmonton before moving to Toronto to pursue her career in fashion design. The designer didn’t want to leave Edmonton without giving a proper, glamorous thanks to her roots.“It was very...
The Triffo Theatre sign. Amanda Erickson/The Griff Triffo Theatres’ opening act of the 25/26 musical season The Triffo Theatre is gearing up for its 2025-26 season. The season began on Oct. 29th, with this year’s opening musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County...
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...
The gorilla was not a real ape A Sunday afternoon looks like this for me: Alarm set for 10:50. Roll out of bed dehydrated and starving. Before eating, turn on NFL Redzone and then proceed to rot on the couch for seven hours of commercial-free football. Sundays are...
A poster for MacEwan’s Revolutionary Communist Club on 109 St NW. Amanda Erickson/The Griff Inside a MacEwan’s Revolutionary Communist Club meeting Virginia Boden Communism. What's the first thing you think of when you hear that word? A dictatorship? How about a...
Having a relationship with an AI LLM is a complicated, strange, and ultimately new trend — is it benign or beneficial? Amanda Erickson Illustration by Evelina Migaldi When Rob first opened up a chat window with a language model, he wasn’t looking for love. “About...
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...
An interview with MacEwan’s Cybersecurity/Ethical Hacking Club’s president, Dmytro Gorkun, and vice-president (external) Tenzin Pyurveev, talks about what the discipline of ethical hacking means to both the club, and the wider world. Syn Dika Photo by Amanda...
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...
If nobody’s got you, the lofi girl’s got you. Ian SmythIllustration by Hayden Carkner Picture this. It’s near the end of the term. You’re stressed out of your mind, living off of energy drinks and timmies Farmer’s Wraps. On top of that, it’s -30 C outside. So you...
Fuck sickos, fuck the trolls Raynesh Ram Graphic by Forrester Toews If you’re online as much as I am, chances are you have heard about the untimely passing of YouTuber Gothic KingCobraJFS, also known as the gothic bad boy or Josh Saunders, his real name. His death...
Edmonton’s Pride Parade hits the streets after a 7-year hiatus. Text and photos by Amanda Erickson/TheGriff After nearly eight years, Edmonton’s Pride Parade made its long-awaited return this past weekend, filling downtown streets with rainbow flags and crowds of...