February is Black History Month, a time to come together and celebrate Black Canadians’ achievements and contributions throughout history. Today, The National Black Coalition of Canada (NBCC) and the City of Edmonton mark the start of Black History Month at City Hall with live music and performances under the theme “Ours to Tell.” The event includes keynote […]

NAIT NewsWatch is back with a new cast. For the first show of 2023, we take a look at tuition increases in Alberta and the start of Black History Month. In sports, we see an assistant coach who laces up the skates and a NAIT Ook goalie on her way to breaking a record. In […]

Edmonton saw the world’s best snowboarders this past weekend at Canada’s first-ever Snowboard FIS World Cup Big Air Event. The event featured a 15-story high drop-in, the largest indoor scaffolding jump in the world.  The Style Experience was the first stop of seven on the North American 2022/2023 FIS world cup season and the only […]

While the torch remains unlit, NAIT’s culinary program is building its student team in preparation for the 2024 IKA Olympics cooking competition in Stuttgart, Germany.  “It’s very exciting. To compete is fun, but you have to push hard to win,” said Jose Paez, a NAIT culinary student.  “Students that persevere and are able to meet […]

NAIT is remembering the loss of 14 victims who were murdered 33 years ago in the worst anti-feminism attack in Canadian history. Known as the Montreal Massacre, 14 women in an engineering class at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal were shot and killed for simply being women. As a Polytechnique school itself, NAIT is honouring the […]