The MacEwan University Journalism program downtown community news site
Volume II
No. 1: Feb. 2, 2021
Online pros and cons
Cut, colour and COVID
How one hair salon has adapted to this complicated time by integrating the provincially mandated protocols into daily operations – with the goal of ensuring health and safety of its employees and clients.
Orbiting for wildfire
Since 2018, there have been 15,031 wildfires in Canada, devastating vast areas of woodlands. Timely information is critical in managing wildfires, and climate change is raising the stakes.
Six months of the mask
It has been six months since city council enacted the mask bylaw. In December, the city started cracking down and handing out more fines. The LRT still struggles with compliance, and the city seems to be ignoring it.
Food bank … rupt
Food banks were intended as a semi-permanent solution to food insecurity. But, volunteers say, putting the responsibility for feeding the homeless on charity allows us to simply give and forget.
A town for all seasons
Learning to love winter could make us healthier. But making Edmonton a winter-friendly city means examining everything from neighbourhood accessibility to building design, to infrastructure.
Segways in the snow
River Valley Adventure is banking that its Segway tours of the city will attract Edmontonians who are sick of sitting indoors but want to get out and enjoy the brisk weather and Alberta sunshine together … but apart.
Hookah or hook-nah
Editors’ notebook: City council may form a committee to alter the bylaw that makes hookah smoking legal again. This week’s managing editors explore the look at reasons for and against the opening of the lounges.
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About us
Managing editor: Brittany Burridge
Assistant managing editor: Benjamin Hollihan
Photo editor: Christopher Ranta
Copy chief: Haley Grinder
Copy editors: Brendan Collinge, Preston Hodgkinson
Contributors: Cole Buhler, Nikita Case, Brendan Collinge, Brooklyn Cooper, Haley Grinder, Andy Trussler, Peter Williams
Publisher: Brian Gorman PhD, associate professor of journalism
gormanb3@macewan.ca