Over the past few years, baseball has turned into one long, massively boring snooze-fest. Ever since Babe Ruth broke out with the Yankees all the way back in 1920, the home run has been an integral part of Major League Baseball. Recently, teams have been stacking...
After successful seasons by the men’s and women’s NAIT soccer teams, both teams managed to make the national championships. The women played in Halifax while the men were in Nanaimo. Unfortunately, the women just missed out on a medal, settling for fourth for the...
Talent is not always enough to achieve greatness in sports. As much as it takes depth in a team’s lineup to succeed, a pair of players can often be complete gamechangers. Zubeir Hussein and Machot Magok of NAIT’s men’s basketball team are beginning to look like...
I have given in to an addiction that many sports fans have in North America. As I sit in front of my computer writing this, I have a Toronto Raptors game on my TV, an Oklahoma City Thunder game on my computer minimized in the bottom right corner and a live stats feed...
Fall reading week has been the topic du jour of Canadian post-secondary student senate meetings and newspapers this past month and NAIT is no exception. A little under a month ago, the University of Calgary announced they’re adding a fall reading break next year....
NAIT is paving the way for Alberta’s competitiveness on several hot-button issues. On Nov. 2, NAIT held its second annual Research Symposium at the Shaw Theatre, focusing on a wide variety of issues, including future energy, digital economy and natural resources. The...
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology is referred to as a leading polytechnic. I have never been more proud than when I have to watch my computer screen buffer for five minutes trying to open one application. Seeing the lag and constant freezing while editing a...
The Edmonton Police Service have issued a warning to NAIT students about a virtual kidnapping scheme impacting the Chinese community in British Columbia. In July of this year, RCMP in lower mainland British Columbia became aware of a fraud trend involving Chinese...
A $1 million donation has been made by Ashif Mawji towards establishing the new Mawji Centre, which will be home to the New Venture and Student Entrepreneurship resources. The centre will be dedicated to helping NAIT students in all fields of academia learn, explore...
You have probably noticed the #MeToo hashtag that was spread on social media by millions of women worldwide in late October. The 2017 wave began when celebrity Alyssa Milano posted a tweet, suggesting use of the hashtag as a way to “give people a sense of the...
