NAIT

• NAIT breaks ground on Advanced Skills Centre, adding 5,500 student spaces

  The Advanced Skills Centre will have 29 programs teaching construction, transportation, manufacturing and energy — increasing NAIT's capacity to more than 15,000 students a year.

  Education

  Sep 8
  
• NAIT pausing 18 programs as part of review

  The post-secondary's vice-president, academic Peter Leclaire says the changes are to ensure NAIT can meet the needs of students and industry.

  Education

  May 15, 2025
  
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• NAIT’s wellness dog retires after a decade

  Flynn officially retired March 19, and hundreds came to celebrate him.

  Features

  Apr 1, 2025
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• NAIT auto body students restore historic car made for 1951 royal visit to Edmonton

  The 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible was built specifically for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip to ride in when they made their inaugural royal visit to Canada.

  Features

  Feb 5, 2025
• Fire that destroyed Edmonton’s historic Hangar 11 being investigated as suspicious

  A large fire consumed Hangar 11, a Second World War-era airplane hangar that was part of the former municipal airport, between the NAIT campus and Blatchford.

  Fire

  Apr 22, 2024
• Can you race a concrete toboggan? NAIT students say ‘yes’

  Engineering students from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology made their debut at the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race this year — and took home an honour or two.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2024
• All-female NAIT team wins big at IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany

  A team of Edmonton chefs — all of them women — was recently awarded silver in the community catering event at a huge international culinary competition.

  Canada

  Feb 7, 2024
• NAIT alumni team invents smart teddy bear to monitor children’s sleep

  A group of former students at NAIT  have been named finalists for a provincial award for inventing a smart teddy bear.

  Tech

  Oct 16, 2023
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• Construction well underway on Edmonton’s northwest LRT expansion

  Crews have been quietly working on an Edmonton LRT extension to the northwest in Blatchford, even though the community is still under construction.

  Consumer

  Apr 7, 2023
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• NAIT students, Canadian Animal Blood Bank hold dog blood bank

  Dogs need to be in decent health, between the ages of one and eight and at least 25 kilograms to be eligible to donate.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2023