By Kallandra Weatherbee As of Jan. 18 the Alberta government will be easing public health rules around funerals, outdoor gatherings and personal services. For the first time in a month personal services such as hair salons and tattoo parlors will be able to re-open by...
By Nicole Murphy A group of people have been volunteering outside the Strathcona Farmers Market almost every Saturday for 20 years peacefully bringing attention to the modern day concentration camps happening in China. “All the media in China is controlled by the...
By Scott Zielsdorf The provincial government released its contact tracing app “ABTraceTogether” earlier this month, making Alberta the first Canadian province to implement a tracing application for COVID-19 cases. The app is a new method of COVID-19 containment that...
By Mia Hildebrandt Health care systems are bracing for a second wave of COVID-19 as cities slowly start to reopen. Manitoba is one of the provinces with fewer cases and deaths of COVID-19 amidst this pandemic with a total of 289 confirmed cases and 7 deaths. On May 4,...
By Mia Hildebrandt Christina Liaño, an 18 year old student living in London explained that on March 24 the city finally went into lockdown. “People aren’t really taking it seriously. It’s going to get worse,” said Liaño. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone...
By Chris Avery Leon Hsu, NAIT Alumni and Canadian Taiwanese citizen, believes Taiwan’s proactive measures have kept the cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan low. As of March 21, Taiwan reported only 153 confirmed cases, and 2 deaths. Hsu says Taiwan stresses the importance of...
By Nicole Murphy A family from Edmonton currently living in New York City sends this message back home to Canada: “Overreact.” The family of five has made the decision to shelter-in-place to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The normally bustling city has been the...
By Stephanie Swensrude Kellee Kryba, an English teacher from Edmonton, has been indoors for the greater part of two months in her apartment in Shanghai. This is after recommendations from the Chinese government to remain indoors to slow the spread of COVID-19. She...
By Elijah O’Donnell Assistant Entertainment Editor “Greta Thunberg visits Edmonton!” “Sixteen-Year-old Climate Activist in Edmonton.” “Greta Leads Climate March.” These were the kinds of headlines I saw leading up to and after the climate protests that took place on...
On October 18, thousands gathered on Jasper Ave. to protest against climate change along with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The march began at Jasper Ave. and 108 St. and ended on the steps of the Alberta Legislature Building where Thunberg spoke about the...
