by Charisse Steward | Nov 13, 2018 | Events |
On the weekend of Oct. 26 through 28, a three-day horror film festival took place at Edmonton’s not-for-profit movie theatre, the Metro. This festival’s main goal was to break the stereotype of the “final girl,” which is a common character in most horror films. Not...
by Ben Hollihan | Nov 13, 2018 | Campus |
The SMHeartCard (pronounced like “smart card”) is a new, portable method of carrying around medication to be used in the event of cardiac chest pain and heart attack. It is essentially what an EpiPen is to anaphylactic shock. Colin Blais, a nursing student at MacEwan,...
by Marina Shenfield | Nov 12, 2018 | Culture, Features |
According to a 2017 Ipsos report, women, millennials, and people with low incomes are the Canadians at the highest risk for mental health issues. The report states that while 41 per cent of Canadians are classified as being “high risk” for mental illness, these three...
by Marina Shenfield | Nov 10, 2018 | Events, Features |
Oct. 1-5 marked MacEwan University’s second annual Sexual Violence Awareness Week. Oct. 4 is also the day set aside to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. As part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week, and in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous...
by Thai Sirikoone | Nov 8, 2018 | Opinions |
Everyone knows things are weird right now. There are Nazis, people who believe the world is flat, and others who just deny science and common knowledge as a whole. Sounds a lot like the world is regressing, doesn’t it? While we’re on our way back to the dark ages, why...