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On Nov. 1, 2022 Employment and Social Development Canada announced that Canadian students can expect more flexibility with student loan repayment with recent changes made to the Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (CSFAP)’s repayment assistance plan. These...
On Oct. 6, 2022, it was announced that Danielle Smith would be the premier-designate for Alberta. She won by 53.8 per cent on the sixth ballot, while Travis Toews received 46.2 per cent of the vote and Brian Jean was kicked out of the race after the fifth ballot...
NASH 84, Canada’s largest student journalism conference, created by the Canadian University Press (CUP), took place over the weekend of Feb. 25-27. The three-day virtual event was hosted by Montréal’s The Concordian, Concordia University’s student publication and...
Albertans are now facing a fourth wave of the COVID virus. After Premier Jason Kenney announced his open for summer plan in June 2021, which set the trajectory of the fourth wave, the province is now faced with mandatory mask restrictions, limited capacity in...
At 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, around 40 people were on hand to watch as a Tipi was erected and banners were put up on what used to be known as the Living Bridge, which passes over 97 Street near 105 Ave in downtown Edmonton. Prairie Sage Protectors, a grassroots...
Mandatory vaccines will be needed for students planning to return to campus starting in January of 2022. Declaration of inoculation status will be required through the Safe@MacEwan app, which can be used for both Apple and Android devices. MacEwan University’s...
With restrictions heightened once again and no idea what summer will bring, there isn't much that Edmontonians can do for fun, but Fort Edmonton Park is hoping to change that. Originally, the intention was to open in May 2020, but the park is now slated to open...
the grief: Anti-bike candidate for mayor promises “car lanes” if elected Ford Driver, a mayoral candidate in the upcoming Edmonton municipal election, says that if he’s elected, the city’s roads will get new special lanes built just for cars. “Bicycles have been...
Once a province of opportunity where a melting pot of people from other provinces came together for economic reasons, Alberta now seems to be losing citizens at a rapid rate. Although some may speculate on the number of reasons why this is happening, one thing is...
The Edmonton Transit Service has been the cause of much discourse over the years, often for its weaknesses. However, that might be changing for the better all because of a collaboration between eight municipalities. On Jan. 28, 2021, the Government of Alberta...
The Government of Alberta appears to be engaged in a conspiracy theory to try and discredit climate reporting — one that describes shadowy international groups handing out directions to journalists, as well as activists, non-profits, and governments in a supposed...
When the Alberta government released its budget on Feb. 28, 2020, it included a reduction in provincial parks funding. This was the second cut in approximately six months, with parks experiencing cuts of 9.7 per cent in the fall 2019 budget and 10 per cent in 2020....
The City of Edmonton will provide all single-unit and some multi-unit homes with carts for garbage and food waste as part of the City’s 25-year waste strategy to divert 90 per cent of waste from landfills. Homes will be provided with one large (240 L) garbage bin...
Since April, almost every one of James Ball’s work days has ended later than he’s used to. On its own, this wouldn’t be a major problem for him, except for the fact that his customers are not used to it either. “When it reaches the point that people are answering...
Roughly 2,000 Edmontonians are currently homeless, according to an online media release from Mayor Don Iveson on Oct. 10. In the same media release, City Council said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this number has been growing in Edmonton. Yet, the maximum...