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Top polling mayoral candidates spoke to MacEwan students at 2025 SAMU mayoral forum

All four mayoral candidates who participated in the municipal election forum. From left to right: Michael Walters, Tim Cartmell, Rahim Jaffer, and Andrew Knack. Amanda Erickson/The Griff Mayoral candidates provide their solutions

October 13, 2025

News·Politics

Making a martyr: Fascism claiming victimization

Graphic by Forrester Toews. A short rant about politics. America once stated itself to be the “land of the free.” Regardless of what it actually was, the world once believed that the

October 9, 2025

Opinions·Politics

Executive troubles: SAMU’s code of conduct requires review

Graphic by Forrester Toews/The Griff, Photo by Amanda Erickson/TheGriff Editor’s note: The author, Darcy Hoogers, served as vice-president (academic) for the 2024-2025 SAMU executive committee. Hoogers also ran for president this year,

August 26, 2025

Campus·News·Politics

SAMU to begin exit from CAUS and CASA after March students’ council meeting, budget approved

Originally published in print on April 1, 2025.After a lengthy confidential debate, students’ council has voted for SAMU to begin severing memberships with two of the three umbrella advocacy groups it allies

April 7, 2025

Campus·Politics

NDP nominee Trisha Estabrooks seeks to represent MacEwan’s riding in next federal election

Originally published in print on March 3. While sitting on campus and logging onto my Macbook, I felt both eager and wary of meeting federal NDP nominee Trisha Estabrooks. Due to time

March 17, 2025

Politics

Opinion: Curiosity is the cure-all for political burnout

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

February 25, 2025

Opinions·Politics

Is Alberta the Texas of Canada?

WTF does that even mean? Is Alberta Canada’s Texas? The Griff is fixin’ to answer the question, so hold your horses. At some point, we’ve all heard someone relate ‘Berta to our

February 4, 2025

Politics