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How artificial status is performed. Forrester ToewsIllustration by Dallon Costello As you walk to your 200-level humanities class in Building 6, you pass Starbucks. Near the fairly expensive cafe, you notice someone that you’ve seen many times before with a...
Reviews of three of my favourite folk horror books I’ve read this harvest season Kelsie Johnston The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois 5/5 Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones go into the woods. None of them make it out alive...
Danielle Smith is gambling with the health and safety of Albertans with a new vaccine rollout plan. Kelsie Johnston Graphic by Forrester Toews As the wind becomes colder and the leaves on the trees start to turn different colours, it’s not only the seasons that are...
Trans athletes are athletes. Let them play. Graphic: Forrester Toews/The Griff. In Oct. 2024, a fourth NCAA women's volleyball team forfeited their match against San Jose State University (SJSU). The forfeits came after the gender identity of an SJSU player came...
How do you answer the phone? “Hello.” As a millennial, this is how I was raised to answer the phone. It’s also what I imagine most people are accustomed to hearing when they make a phone call. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered that there are some Gen...
The new Superman film finally does the character justice. In 2013, I lost my love for Superman. Man of Steel (2013) showcased a Superman who didn’t value humanity, was more stoic than supportive, and acted like a villain. It was such an antithesis of the core...
Invading foreign countries for oil and gas? So 2001. Say hello to rare earth elements (REEs), uranium, and freshwater — enough to outpace China in the AI arms race. All of it just sitting up north, ripe for the picking — or so your rich friends tell you. But the...
If you’ve ever rushed to class through the first floor of Building 7, a giant portrait of our University’s namesake, Dr. Grant MacEwan, stood in your periphery. All it takes is a minute of pause to look closer at the details of what he loved in life: MacEwan...
Should all Canadians wield the power to revoke citizenship?
As the beloved character of Daredevil’s show jumps from Netflix to Disney+, fans like myself are curious to see just how many changes Daredevil’s world is in for, and if Disney can keep the same level of engagement from the original audience. The Netflix hit...
AI is a powerful tool for students and non-students alike. It saves time, helps with homework, and is arguably efficient. But what is the cost of artificial intelligence? Students are becoming too reliant on it. Once upon a time, when students were...
This issue of the Griff is talking politics and while I know it’s been an exhausting marathon of bad news, please stop thinking about Donald Trump and Elon Musk and for just a second and consider what’s shaping the city you live in. Engage your curiosity, because...
Speak truth to power. How often has this statement been regurgitated? How often has it been used to describe a journalist's contribution to society? How often have we — journalists or not — taken the time to understand what it means? In an era of “fake news” and...
“How long will it take before our access to the sun is under a paid subscription?” We ask, looking up at our family trees, standing between mangled, surfaced roots. Our gene branches respond with leaf litter. “How long?” They rustle. “It began...
It’s a Wednesday evening, and everything goes as usual. I leave my black garbage bin along the curb right beside its smaller green clone. They sit there in silence like gargoyles in the night, awaiting the arrival of Edmonton’s garbage trucks. In the early rise of...