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U of A student plays a part in Canada’s Paralympic gold medal

Dylan Rusnak, a fourth-year kinesiology student at the University of Alberta, helped Canada’s wheelchair curling team win gold at the Milano Cortina Paralympic Winter Games. This was Canada’s first Paralympic gold in the event since 2014. To Rusnak, the win was not just about achieving a gold medal. It was…

Notes from Council: 2026–27 councillors appointed to committees

Student group spotlight: The Undergraduate Physiology Students’ Association

Canvas cyberattack disrupts spring semester

Unions gather for May Day on campus

Marble Pedestal: Moving

Moving places is more than just relocating into a different postal code or adjusting to a new time zone — it is the transition to a new lifestyle. It is leaving what once was and living with what will be. Think back on the first day that you moved into…

Why the U of A should provide recorded lectures

Edmonton’s falling rent: A call for caution

How sickle cell disease is reshaping the classroom

Do we need another mission to the moon?

Film Review: ‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’

If somebody asked me to describe Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in a single word, I don’t think I would be able to. Like the film’s loquacious title, the Canadian-made movie bursts at the seams. It is chock-full of genres, styles, and outrageous moments that you have to…

Social Intercourse: May 20

Book Review: ‘Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge’

Book Review: ‘Black Girl in the Ring’ by Dolores V. Mullings

Social Intercourse: May 6

New School of Politics and Democracy sparks concerns from faculty

The University of Alberta and the Banff Centre have been the home of the Peter Lougheed School of Leadership since 2014. Now, the school has a sibling — the Peter Lougheed School of Politics and Democracy (PLSPD).  The U of A officially launched the PLSPD in October 2025. Its first…

Indigenous leaders struggle to make progress in GSA

2026 Predictions

The lives of students stuck in Gaza due to visa delays

From the archives: Wartime letters to the editor