MacEwan Journalism’s downtown community news site
Volume VI
No. 3, March 6, 2023
Raising the Dead
Fans of the Grateful Dead are getting ready to to gather this month for the second Dead Ends Live festival, which celebrates the music of the apparently immortal California rock band.
Playing hot potato with the homeless
O’day-min Coun. Anne Stevenson says she wants to see Edmonton’s downtown come back to life, but some of her constituents wonder what that means for other parts of the ward.
15 minutes to madness
The idea of a city in which every amenity and need is within a quarter-hour’s walk seems fairly harmless – yet the conspiracy industry has already turned it into a sinister plot to limit our freedom.
Befriending Magpies 101
Whether you regard them as nothing more than noisy flying garbage cans or the geniuses of the bird world, magpies are a fact of life in Edmonton, so we might as well learn to like them.
Leaving women in the dark
Editor’s Notebook: In the debate over whether to stay on Daylight Time year-round one possible complication has been overlooked: the effect of dark streets on women’s safety.
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Managing editor: Theodora MacLeod
Photo editor: Kieran Fong
Copy chief: Taylor Harrison
Contributors: Gwyneth Bignell, Kieran Fong, Taylor Harrison, Isaac Lamoureux, Ethan LaPerle
Publisher: Brian Gorman PhD, associate professor of journalism
gormanb3@macewan.ca
No. 2 February 13, 2023
Hearts, candy & flowers … and Romans, cynics & sex shops
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You’re flying solo on a day when everyone is pledging their love to a significant other. Or you’re just an incurable cynic who is so fed up with the whole romance song and dance that you could scream. We have some Valentine’s Day suggestions for you.
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When we talk about Valentine’s, we talk about love, and romance … and dodge the fact that, in the end, it’s also about sex. Our reporter takes a trip to the South Side to see what this time of year brings to the little shops of pleasure.
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About us
Managing editor: Gwyneth Bignell
Photo editor: Kieran Fong
Copy chief: Theodora MacLeod
Contributors: Kieran Fong, Taylor Harrison, Ethan LaPerle, Isaac Lamoureux, Theodora MacLeod
Publisher: Brian Gorman PhD, associate professor of journalism
gormanb3@macewan.ca
No. 1 January 30, 2023