The Gateway

Convocation Hall set to get a $7.4 million refresh

The 110-year-old Convocation Hall, located in the Old Arts Building, is getting a refresh. And music students are excited about it. The renewal is estimated to cost $7.4 million. Renovations will start later in 2026, but no exact date is known. “The building is old, and that’s a part of…

PLAYshop helps parents foster physical literacy with their children

Unpaid and unseen: rural families on the frontlines of care

Notes from Council: Capital infrastructure and funding discussed

Course registration delayed until late April

Public attention on the AHS scandal is waning, to the UCP’s benefit

The unfolding controversy surrounding the United Conservative Party (UCP) and businessman Sam Mraiche is, on its surface, the kind of political scandal that should be difficult to ignore. Wrapped up in it all are allegations of insider access, questions around hundreds of millions in public health-care contracts, and multiple ongoing…

Burlap Sack: Doomscrolling to fill the time

Banning kids from social media isn’t a simple issue

Limitations to MAID moves focus away from health-care struggles

How free pancakes overshadowed tuition increase approvals

Film Review: ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’

The National Film Board of Canada has long built its reputation on films that challenge audiences, rather than comforting them. With The Girl Who Cried Pearls, that tradition continues, and arguably, reaches a new level of quiet devastation. Fresh off its win at the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…

Social Intercourse: April 8

Album Review: ‘Cinders’ by Larkk

Album Review: ‘Pray for Me’ by RAAHiiM

2026 Kreisel Lecture reflected on “place” with three awe-inspiring speakers

New School of Politics and Democracy sparks concerns from faculty

The University of Alberta and the Banff Centre have been the home of the Peter Lougheed School of Leadership since 2014. Now, the school has a sibling — the Peter Lougheed School of Politics and Democracy (PLSPD).  The U of A officially launched the PLSPD in October 2025. Its first…

Indigenous leaders struggle to make progress in GSA

2026 Predictions

The lives of students stuck in Gaza due to visa delays

From the archives: Wartime letters to the editor