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Q&A: Green Party leadership candidate David Merner

Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Green Party of Canada is still hosting its leadership race to replace Elizabeth May. Nine candidates are running to replace May who served as the leader of the party from 2006 to 2019. Online voting for the membership will be open from September 26…

Masks on campus: when and where they are to be worn

Q&A with U of A President Bill Flanagan

1000 Donors campaign aims to fill pandemic need for blood donors

Instagram page hosting COVID-19 parties debunked as fake

Editorial: Our institutions fail Black people

If there was any doubt as to whether the police motto “to serve and to protect” is a conditional statement, it was put to rest with the murder of George Floyd. On the evening of May 25, 2020, four Minneapolis police officers were called to a convenience store regarding an…

Top 5: Things I Never Thought I Would Miss About Campus

U of A students face more than one crisis

Point/Counterpoint: ThinkPad versus MacBook

Marble Pedestal: Deena Hinshaw

Researcher’s study on slow fashion uncovers our dependency on our stuff

In 2015, Alberta blogger Elizabeth Withey documented her experience wearing the same dress every day for a year. Four years later, University of Alberta human ecology student Jessica Kennedy realized Withey’s blog would make an excellent case study. Jessica Kennedy began reflecting on material culture long before she discovered Withey’s…

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival moves online with The Hill at Home

The First Time: Kokomo Margarita Ice Pops

Album Review: Heroes’ “Reflection”

Spill the Tea: DavidsTea’s Buddha’s Blend

Hidden in plain sight

Close your eyes. Picture someone who’s homeless. Someone who doesn’t have enough to eat or access to healthy food. Now open your eyes. Was that person going to classes and labs, hanging out in the Students’ Union Building or the library, and participating in clubs and activities? Odds are when…

Taking off the layers

Purity Test 2020

The Life I Want to Own

Grieving for a Student; Grieving as a Student