THE 50-YEAR TIME CAPSULE ISSUE THE Please recycle this Thursday, March 28, 2013 newspaper when you are NAIT Volume 50, Issue 24 finished with it. YOUR STUDENTNUGGET NEWSPAPER FOR 50 YEARS, EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA TOPBusiness student MODEL Julie Levitan wins CHOSENNAITSA contest, Page 17 FINAL THREE Julie Levitan, right, NAITSA’s Next Top Model, poses with runner-up Chris Figliuzzi and Inae Choi at the Nest. Photo by Chad Steeves 2 The Nugget Thursday, March 28, 2013 NEWS&FEATURES City pinning its plans on LRT a heck of a lot easier to get to school. Again, I A few federal and provincial big shots came ing through all that construction is not worth the don’t know if you will use this, but let’s hope to the announcement of the new LRT line and headache. that somebody, somewhere, at sometime finds it they all seemed really excited about “the largest Though public transportation is currently useful. It will be completed around the time that P3 (Public Private Partnership) to date.” The taking over the world (and Edmonton is rather I’ll be all finished here. Figures. feds are forking over up to $250 million for the far behind on that), Edmonton is still made up Earlier this month, Mayor Stephen Mandel project. of quite a few regular drivers and commuters. (who will celebrate his 117th birthday by the time What I don’t get about the project, however, We are a driving community and we have a hard this issue comes out) announced a new LRT line is the fact that they want to put an LRT in the time saying goodbye to our cars. that will stretch from Southeast to West Edmon- middle of downtown Edmonton, all of which is Another thing that the expansion will do is ton, covering a total of 27 km with an estimated supposed to be on street level. I would have less turn Churchill Square into a major transporta- ride time of 60 minutes. This line will connect to say about it if it were scheduled to be built tion hub. All of the LRT lines will be connecting SARAH STILWELL with the two other lines at Churchill square. underground. My issue is that a street-level train there. Currently Churchill is a major arts area in Issues Editor @sarah_stilwell I’m interested to see how this project turns is scheduled to be built in downtown Edmonton. Edmonton. The Citadel Theatre, Art Gallery of out. It will be completed, at the earliest, by 2017. Currently, there is always building construc- Alberta (AGA), and the Winspear are all close As part of the Nugget’s 50th anniversary- The total estimated cost of the project is $3.2 bil- tion and it’s hard enough driving downtown by, not to mention the Three Bananas Cafe, one time capsule issue, the editors have written lion. It will cost the city $1.8 billion for the Mill during rush hour traffic. I hate it so much that I of my favourite breakfast spots in Edmonton. columns addressing readers at NAIT 50 years Woods to City Centre leg of the LRT. actually give up my car for the school year. Driv- I love Churchill Square for what it is right from now. This is Sarah’s: now, a quiet place where on the average Sun- If you were wondering about what big things day morning I can walk around before I stop by happened in the news in the 2012-2013 year, Three Bananas for a latte or where I can see the a lot of it has to do with the City of Edmonton sea of pink that Run for The Cure brings in every and always wanting to build things. Right now, September to raise awareness for breast cancer. because we’re Canadian and because we like I know, I know – I’m crazy and get anxiety hockey, we’re trying to build a new arena. We’re over things that will undoubtedly change. What- always building things and advancing our city’s ever. If this LRT does go on the way that it’s infrastructure or something like that. In fact, I intended to, I wish it the very best. don’t think I’ve ever seen downtown Edmonton Some huge changes are taking place in without some kind of big construction going on. Edmonton over the next five or so years, but Let me know if that’s any different in the future. I’m anticipating many, many more projects from Today, for this very special issue, I want to now until this issue is reread in 50 years when discuss Edmonton’s transportation system, the the capsule is opened. I’ve stayed away from LRT (Light Rail Transit) in particular. I wonder saying anything about flying cars until right now, if you guys in 2063 will still find a use for it. so this article is already much less cliche than By next year, Edmonton will complete erausa.org I thought it was going to be when I started it. the NAIT LRT line, which I think will make it LRT train Happy five-oh, NAIT, and many more! Nothing but opportunity ahead look back at the last couple of decades it’s be rectified with a PST. Has the XL pipeline iPads and let them grow up on that. Are kids almost a surprise it hasn’t. Even the very come through yet, future NAIT Nugget editor allowed to play on playgrounds or are they year NAIT opened we were in the midst of or are the governments of Eastern provinces too dangerous? I imagine that you’re aller- the Cold War while France and West Ger- still creating flash games against it, while gic to everything, seeing as how you prob- many finally ended 40 years of aggression. half-baked Californian activists protest a ably weren’t allowed outside of houses and Since then we’ve seen near constant war in massive stimulus to their own economy? vehicles until you were 12. one territory or another, from the Middle And how is Edmonton? Do neighbour- No matter what life is like in your when, East through Vietnam. We’ve seen acts of hoods still have to take back their commun- I want to apologize for it. If any of the above terrorism, genocides and so many transgres- ities by boycotting stores that sell machetes hasn’t changed, that means my generation sions against human rights. We are right now to 12-year-olds, or is there finally an effort failed. We should be the ones that stop all JOSH YAWORSKI watching while millions starve, and thou- being put into the protection of our citizens this nonsense and I promise you, some tried. Assistant Issues Editor sands reel in millions of dollars profit. The and of our city? Are people using all the new So please don’t give up. Everything is up in @actuallyjosh last decade showed us that even the First transit services or are they mostly ignored in the air, it always has been, so find the pri- As part of the Nugget’s 50th anniver- World isn’t safe from the greed of corpora- favour of reckless driving? Does one of the orities and pull them down. Remember that sary-time capsule issue, the editors have all tions, as banks were bailed out by the people, richest regions of the country still cut fund- the definition of humanity is in altruism, not written columns addressing readers at NAIT only to have the banks turn around and fore- ing for essential services like YESS (Youth greed. Remember the power of a smile in the 50 years from now. This is Josh’s: close the peoples’ mortgages. Empowerment and Support Services) while face of a dark day and see the opportunity in Hello Issues Editor of the future, All of those things are in our news, so discussing a half-billion-dollar arena? Do things that are real. There is an honesty in How are you? What’s it like out there? Do they seem distant and beyond our own scope. future Edmontonians still walk past the working with one’s hands and I imagine that you have to dodge Morlocks as you run through But what about here in Alberta? We elected a homeless on Whyte Avenue so they can it’s been lost by your now. So find an oppor- the night? Is there a DisneyMoon yet and is it woman premier (Alison Redford) who guar- spend $10 on a Redbull in a bar? tunity to stick your hands in the dirt and learn awesome? Are the Jetsons still a tease, hinting anteed a priority for education, but didn’t tell Do you ever have any privacy, future from those roots. You can follow everything at technology that should be around by now? us that that would be at the expense of our editor? At the pace that we have gone in down to its roots and if you ever want to cre- I wonder if your time is less likely to buy healthcare. This province was once the dream the last decade, I imagine that by now you ate change, that is where it must be done. into infantile ideas of the end of the earth and now we have people dying on our sur- have Google and Facebook implanted in If you’re sitting where I am right now, or perhaps it has already happened, so you gical waiting lists. She promised us no PST your brain, and you have to pay Warner that means you have nothing but opportunity all got bored of the idea.