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Methods of making myself feel better often depend on what is making me feel poorly. If I am physically sick, my body will tell me under no uncertain circumstances that sleep is my number one priority. But being sick can also be emotionally straining, and while...
I was 14 years old the first time someone tried to convince me of a conspiracy theory. It was in Grade 9, as I was sitting in a film studies class, that my teacher tried to convince us that 9/11 was an inside job. It didn’t really sink in at the time. I was...
It all began with the four days this summer that were supposed to be mine and mine alone. Every university student with a demanding summer job knows what I am talking about. You finish the winter semester, jump headfirst into your summer employment, and try to find...
Battle for Azeroth, the seventh expansion since the game’s release in 2004. Since its debut, World of Warcraft has become a phenomenon in both video games and popular media as a whole — there are even some World of Warcraft-inspired street names in the Ottawa...
Sexism. Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. I’m sure that most, if not all, of these words elicit an emotional response in you because you’ve heard them used and you understand that they can cause irreparable harm to those whom they target. But what about...
A giant pair of brick- and glass-striped stockings and shoes. A pile of shiny balls. A 14.9-metre-tall aluminum baseball bat. A sculpture of twisted bronze abstractly resembling a flock of geese. A series of colourful fruit sculptures. These are all pieces...
It can certainly be said that the Canadian national anthem is well embedded in the minds of Canadians, from when we stood and sang in it in our homeroom classes to the hockey games we attend as adults. The anthem is something we are exposed to for our whole lives,...
For nearly the entirety of my post-secondary education, tuition has been frozen in Alberta for domestic students, meaning that I’ve been paying the same amount for tuition each year since 2015. In that year, Alberta’s newly minted NDP government came into power,...
Gather ‘round, MacEwan. It’s time for a story. Once upon a time (October 2014, actually), a woman named Emma Healey published an online article called “Stories like passwords” on hairpin.com, in which she details her experience as a creative writing student at...
As an adult female, I should feel comfortable calling myself a woman. But while I am proud of who I am as a person, the terminology feels unnatural. Whenever I start to label myself a woman, the word catches on my tongue or comes across as though I’m making a joke....
—“Hey, Siri: tell me when the world will be taken over by robots.” —“I’m sorry, Sydney, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” If Siri’s response sends a shiver down your spine, you can thank HAL 9000, the iconic, eerily calm, artificially intelligent computer in Stanley...
The notion that students should “dress for the job they want” is not new. For some students, school is their job, and along that line of thinking comes the desire to dress professionally. These individuals believe that they are already well into beginning their...
After reading an article from Connected: The Surprising Powers of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, I started really thinking about how social media affects our daily lives. The article explains some of the...
October: Current State of Horror The way he’s holding this kind of reminds me of King Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone. And the stone is the house. The house kind of reminds me of Monster House. I’m more scared of the house than I am the dude with the...
The Students Association of MacEwan University (SAMU) executive committee elections are on March 8 and 9, and with that comes the U-Pass (universal transit pass) referendum. The referendum gives students a chance to vote on whether or not they believe the U-pass...