During the Fall 2025 NAITSA Clubs Showcase, a new club appeared that was hard to ignore. With their bright red banners, hammer-and-sickle logos and Soviet-style fonts on their signs, there was no mistaking that the communists had set up shop at NAIT. The Revolutionary...
Satire: Budget cuts force NAIT to replace beloved taco in a bag with coffee in a bag
Due to a realignment of budgeting priorities, the NAIT Student Orientation (NSO) committee will no longer be serving the popular taco in a bag to new students beginning in the spring 2026 term. Instead, the committee has announced that they will be switching to coffee...
Cultivating culture and identity as part of the Yoruba diaspora
Being a leading immigration destination, Canada hosts many peoples from around the world that are part of a diaspora, and this is seen in the NAIT community’s diversity. NAIT encourages these diasporic communities to value their cultural ties to their home countries...
Satire: NAIT installs GPA-activated fire alarms
In an attempt to address the long-running practice of students maliciously setting off fire alarms during final examinations, NAIT has recently installed new, state of the art fire alarms that can only be activated by students with a cumulative grade point average...
Time, connections and the inescapable farewell
With the academic year ending soon, the number of activities at the NAIT campus has seemingly increased dramatically. It’s as if clubs and offices are churning out as many events as they can to end the term with a bang. If one were to look at things closely...
Who suffers when Alberta flip-flops on health benefits for non-permanent residents?
The Alberta government, through Premier Danielle Smith, recently announced a provincial referendum scheduled this fall. On Oct. 19, Albertans will be asked to vote on a range of government policy topics. Critics have referred to this as an “anti-immigrant” referendum,...
Capstone project tackles takeout containers at NAIT Artisanal Market
For those that regularly visit NAIT’s Artisanal Food market, a new container has appeared on the shelves, with a message to return once done so it can be reused. But the sustainable endeavour didn’t start with NAIT — rather, it’s a capstone project from four Bachelor...
Making sense of NAITSA’s ban on slate campaigning
“Slate campaigning” is a term many NAIT students either don’t understand or just ignore, having no practical effect on their daily student life. But for those who do know what it means, particularly those who have run for any NAITSA elective office in recent years,...
Neurodivergence as superpower: How one NAIT student wants us to change our perspective
Jola Ilemori, a Bachelor of Business Administration Entrepreneurship student and self-taught comic book artist, is in the process of creating something no one at NAIT (or maybe even in Canada) has seen before. This creation, named Project Delta, is a comic book series...
Am I a hypocrite? When the threat of a strike hits close to home
On Jan. 15, the NAIT Academic Staff Association (NASA) held a strike vote where 83 per cent of the votes cast were in favour of authorizing a strike. Although this does not necessarily mean a strike is imminent, it is the closest NASA has gotten to an actual strike...










