Luke Sawczak

Professor Ulrich Krull has been appointed as the new interim vice president of UTM until August 31, 2017. Krull has served the UTM campus for...

The first Sunday I spent in the Medium office, then–features editor Amir Ahmed said he was going to a nearby Thai joint for lunch...

In a decisive vote, Unit 1 has accepted U of T’s offer to end the strike through binding arbitration. Unit 1 members will return to...

“Where is the divide between our personal private life and academic work life?” asks Natasha Hartono in this week’s lead feature story on social...

U of T has accepted an offer from Unit 1’s bargaining team and it now awaits a vote by members tomorrow. On Tuesday evening, the...

The effect of Unit 1’s strike on campus normalcy escalated drastically on Tuesday following the breakdown of its latest round of negotiations. Large groups of...

The divisive offer made by the bargaining team of CUPE 3902 Unit 1 was rejected on every point, according to updates by Unit 1...

Last week I took two of the unique Behind the Scenes tours, the second half of St. George curatorial master’s student Yan Wu’s project...

This was the first year since 2010 in which there were two (nearly) full competing slates for the UTMSU executive committee, but from the...

It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, and we have a features article by Dana Bibi on the Israeli company SodaStream. The main point of...

The front pages of both UTM’s and U of T’s websites don’t show much about the strike going on. Below large banners about various...

U of T’s courses have been impeded by the strike but the university refuses to meet with the bargaining team, The Medium has learned. In...

Unit 3 will not be joining the strike today. Members of the unit sent their tentative agreement on to the full membership this evening, which...

So. After several close calls over the last 15 years, we finally have a real live strike on our hands. It’s big, but for that...

The year was 1922. The widow of Bram Stoker, who had written the seminal vampire book Nosferatu, was still alive and still held the...

Company secrets are a serious topic at universities these days. One of the most striking cases took place last May, when dean Robert Buckingham...

There are a few things on my mind this week, and none really stands out, so I’ll touch on each. MENTAL HEALTH & MONEY A UTMSU...

University chaplaincies across Canada have finished celebrating Catholic Students’ Week, which at UTM featured a talk by Edward Curtis, a priest and pontifical master...

I’ll be honest—now and then I get tired of writing my typical editorial, so I like to keep a lookout for the topics that...

I’ve been thinking about the fact that there are some groups that work to improve students’ outlooks at university, some that are indifferent, and...

The Dalhousie dentistry case is a very interesting one. There are tons of differently nuanced opinion and news articles online—after reading through them, I...

Any and every religion can be and has been used to destroy or to build up. The determining factors are the people using them...

UTMSU’s approach to the town hall last week was unusual. They strategized the questions they would ask the administrative staff beforehand and expressed concern...

A lot of the media I know as “classic” comes from my parents. It’s the books I was given to read later in childhood,...

The annual general meeting of UTMSU last Thursday included a packed Council Chambers, free T-shirts, birthday cake, questions about international students, financials, and the...

There’s more than one type of respect a person can show, a point that was made clear for me this past week. While preparing to...

One of the articles on the front page of features this week talks about moving out. A Globe and Mail writer who tried it...

The circus is over. Every year there seems to be more tension and toxicity at the U of T student union’s general meeting, but...

Déjà vu. Two years ago The Medium wrote about a referendum to expand the Student Centre, quoting and expanding on a couple of figures...

Confusion arose last week on the subject of a motion to amend the U of T Student Union’s bylaws at its Annual General Meeting...

Reading an email from the executive director of UTMSU to the executive team and associates is disappointing, but not a huge surprise. It features...

I used to take walks in the fall. The season on this side of winter is my favourite one. There’s something about the combination of...

There’s not a whole lot that we take very seriously on this campus, at least politically, as students. Sure, we’re aware of some of...

While our team was editing the “City draws international students” story last week, one of us added a half-serious remark at the end on...

It’s the start of the year, but soon it’ll be that time again, people, when the question of what to do with your future...

Deerfield Hall is officially open following a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Monday. “Deerfield Hall will serve as an ideal foundation for new experiences, and of...

I remember a few quarrels involving our student union and St. George’s about the contract that determines the exchange of student fees between them—it...

The Medium was established in 1974 by a small team of student journalists. In our 40th anniversary magazine, we dive into the past four decades...

When I pitched my idea for this magazine, just for fun, to former editor Michael Di Leo—how I wanted to celebrate the 40th volume...

“It was a simpler time. Mississauga as you know it is not how it was then. “Most of Mississauga in those days was apple orchards....

Welcome to campus, or back to campus, depending on who you are. For me it’s back to campus—and in kind of a strange way,...

Early afternoon. My friend Larissa and I peer out the window of the office at the snowy ground of the Five-Minute Walk. She’s calm. I...

Audio Cine Films sent an email today to U of T student clubs and societies implying that they have been screening movies outside of...

The university hopes to offer organic, free-trade coffee in a café called North Side Bistro in Deerfield Hall when it opens, among other changes...

You’re a professor at U of T. You get an email from the dean saying you can get up to $12,000 more in funding...

The UTM Chess Club, founded earlier this year by Ivan Manasuev, won a tournament against Ryerson’s and Brock’s teams this month. Each university sent four...

Filmmaker Richie Mehta, whose second and third feature films will be in theatres in June, took an afternoon last Thursday to visit UTM—his alma...

“Writing doesn’t just allow me to tell a story. It allows me to feel at peace with the event I’m writing about, as if...

There are more candidates than usual for UTMSU’s executive positions. But they’re not the most interesting aspect of, well, yet another election. But first, two...

There’s a graduating student exhibit on now in the Blackwood, and a piece by Colin Yau consists of old issues of the Medium with...

UTM has asked Chartwells to extend its contract for another year, Chartwells’ contract with UTM, originally set to expire in April, will likely be extended...

A candidate who dropped out is still on the UTSU elections ballot. Luis Moreno, formerly a candidate for VP external, is still listed along with...

I’ve always had a hard time duplicating some of the complaints about food on campus. Admittedly, I don’t know a whole lot about what...

Last week, I went to a consultation on how to work out the kinks of the co-curricular record. The invitation was sent to many...

Clubs and academic society representatives discussed the failure of the Student Centre expansion referendum at UTMSU’s open forum held on February 13. The event, which...

The UTM Students’ Union has found itself in a few controversies this year. Last month’s “aggressive” vote yes campaign. Their ineffectiveness in preventing the...

The archbishop of Toronto visited UTM for an hour-long lecture on Dante Alighieri’s classic The Divine Comedy to kick off Catholic Students Week on...

UTM’s Hospitality and Retail Services installed a new organic waste digester system in Spigel Hall for a 60-day trial run beginning last Tuesday. The system,...

Some of the time, I feel like I’ve had an epiphany that there is no Medium, no UTM Students’ Union, no UTM Debating Club,...

The English and Drama Student Society’s Poetry Gala was a spectacle on something of a different level compared to previous years. Last year’s announcement...

The Student Centre expansion referendum has failed, according to the unofficial results released by UTMSU today. The union posted the initial vote counts of 1,618...

When I was interviewing candidates for the position of online editor, one of them, a hijab-wearing woman, declined my handshake and explained that she...

As I picked up the mostly black and white CD featuring pictures of a woman and her guitar entangled in various apparently affectionate positions,...

The HCC will have to make cuts to services next year following the failure of a fee increase proposal presented to Quality Services to...

Complaints about fair campaigning are important, but they’re the same year after year, so I’ll give them just a little space this time around. Last...

There haven’t been any earth-shattering events this week, to my knowledge, so here’s a reflective piece. Something I noticed when I attended the UTM Students’...

The UTM Students’ Union is holding a referendum on fee increases that would see the levy rise to $50 per semester for up to...

The referendum is back. That’s not a complaint. Last year, a referendum by UTMSU on fee increases to expand the Student Centre was passed by...

A good question was raised quite unexpectedly, maybe even unintentionally, this week: how wide is the scope of a campus paper? A few UTM students...

The U of T Students’ Union addressed each of its pre-approved motions at its annual general meeting despite procedural motions to amend the agenda...

As someone who happened to start paying close attention to UTSU politics at a time when exciting things were happening, I’m looking forward to...

Some 40 students walked around campus with candles to symbolize their support for victims of gender-based violence in the eighth annual Light the Night...

The Medium was barred from filming the UTM Students’ Union’s annual general meeting last Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon, Raymond Noronha, the president of UTMSU, emailed...

Students gathered at the UTM Students’ Union’s annual general meeting last week for the presentation of audited financial statements that recorded a significant profit...

I never finished CTEP. I was enrolled in it for three semesters after entering it in its third year of existence at UTM on...

“Hi persons. Moka, back in this yet again,” begin the liner notes to Moka Only’s Carrots and Eggs. “Thanks for investing your food, drug,...

UTM students are fee-paying, voting members of both UTMSU and UTSU. As their annual general meetings are approach on November 14 and the 27,...

Beside and below this editorial you will find two letters that both seem to be calling for good things: one calling for more attendance...

The Ontario government has pledged $27 million to the province’s colleges and universities to allow them to address mental health issues. As you can...

Somehow I’ve never felt very invested in the co-curricular record. Just last Thursday, a party was thrown for it, complete with a flash mob,...

I’m writing about writing initiatives. I know, I know. “Aren’t you going to talk about David Gilmour?” But it feels kind of like taking...

This year’s Frosh coverage has been significantly more copious than in previous years. It’s rounded off with a final article in the news section...

I go to the green cabinet in our office that holds a wealth of old CDs, mostly indie, that have been sent to us...

The students now reeling from the energy and loud music of Welcome Week and settling into another school year at the good old University...

As an editor-in-chief who stepped into the role after three years not as a journalist but as a copy editor, and who abstained on...

Hey, everyone. It is now endgame, and frankly I’m impressed you’re still taking time to read a newspaper at this point in the semester...

Hi, everyone. I’m Luke, a senior linguistics and French student, and next year’s editor-in-chief. My background at the paper is three years of copy-editing and...

Hi, everyone! Good to see you again! Yeah, I know it’s getting to that heavy time of the semester… but after a weekend of...

A few weeks ago, my parents rented Searching for Sugar Man, and I watched it over my shoulder while doing homework. You’ve probably heard...

Gazing out windows in Santorini or Jerusalem: our writers describe their rooms in international cities.   KABUL, AFGHANISTAN HAKIMA HAFIZI   The white wood frames of the half-open window...

Oh, hello there! Hope you had a relaxing week. (What? It was even more packed than a regular school week? Tell me about it…) Those...

Good morning to you! Or, if you prefer to be greeted in the French supplied by Google Translate, bonjour à vous! That may have seemed...

Hi, everyone! I hope you’re officially back in the groove by now. (I know I ain’t.) This week’s topic is kind of a humble one:...

Hi, everyone. Normally I’m annoyed by how early they start with the Christmas songs, Santa floats, and store displays complete with countdowns, but somehow...

Hello, hello! So, American Thanksgiving happened, and the world is now officially ready to immerse itself in Christmas for the next month. It used...

Hello there! And congratulations on using your procrastination time to read instead of watching videos of cats! Speaking of YouTube, I’m currently doing research by...

Hi! Today’s topic comes from a friend of mine who posed a question to the world of Facebook in his status. That’s the best...

Oh my goodness! You’re reading this! That means you survived Hurricane Sandy! The sheer stamina it must have required—just imagine, to have to carry...

Hello, and welcome to what they tell me will be another rainy week! Let’s all stay indoors and take advantage of the fact that...

In his new position as vice-principal of special initiatives, Professor Ulrich Krull plans on moving UTM towards the vision of a more comprehensive university,...

Hi again, everyone! I hope you’re getting some time to enjoy the leaves as they enter what I consider the ideal colour range. Blessed...

Dear Editor,   Every week I read every article in your paper two or three times. I’ve done so for the last three years—ever since I started...

Oh, hello, reader! It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Welcome back. Today’s topic is register—and not the kind you had to switch on...

helloeveryoneimgladtoseeyoubackagainforanothervolumeoflukeslanguages thisweekwellbetalkingaboutthedifferencesbetweenspokenandwrittenlanguage Huh, that’s funny. Why does my spell-check say that’s wrong? “Hello” is a word, “everyone” is a word… oh, wait. That’s right. Unlike when...

Oh, hello! Welcome back to this column, in which I try to make the study of language interesting to everyone. Today’s topic is “Is...

About 20 students attended, including regular students and members of UTMSU

Whatever it is, it’s working.

When other languages do borrow, in this modern age it tends to be English they lift what they need from.

Sir! I’ve just come from the frontlines—the enemy is upon us! The dreaded Essays are advancing, the Assignments are attacking from the east, and...

We’re just going to look at what I call “linguistic candy”: checking out some random and cool stuff from various languages.

Since we closed last semester’s run of the series with a piece on defining your own style of language, let’s start this one with something both unique and universal among us: Canadian English.

We do so with the concept of “idiolect”. There’s a lot to be said about this. It comes down to the principle that what you say is unique to you. Because of your genes, your culture, your history, your personality, and even your own choices, you have certain habits of speech (and both old and new habits die hard).

So what do words mean and how is it we all tacitly agree? You say, “Go look in a dictionary, stupid.” But I mean—ah,...

Hello again, everyone! We’re halfway through the series now, and I’m going to take this opportunity to apologize that each subject must be treated so broadly; each one could easily have an entire series of its own.

So, last week I promised you we’d try some do-it-yourself experiments with phonetics (the sounds of language). And I have good news: We will!

What’s a dialect? “Talking with an accent.” What’s an accent? “When people talk funny.” What’s talking funny? “When they don’t sound, you know, normal!” So what’s normal? Actually, not so easy to answer.

“Prescriptive and descriptive? Sounds like you’re trying to teach me something!” (Well, just briefly, okay? Go make some popcorn if it’s that bad.) Basically, whenever people...

As a linguistics student, a new member of LSAS, an editor, and a wannabe writer, I’ve come to appreciate just how pervasive, how everywhere...

Don’t get me wrong. I used to read a lot. I remember my gramma teaching me to read when I was four, and when...

Dear Editor, Re: Mr. Boutilier’s letter I’m glad you sent in your letter, which makes important points about the ban. As an average reader, though, I...

Dear Editor, I’ve written in before to praise The Medium, and my opinion hasn’t changed. Unfortunately, neither has that of the general student population, who...

Oh, it’s you! Hello again! So you’ve come back for more fascinating Histories of Everyday Items? That’s great, because I just happen to have...

Dear Editor, I am a faithful reader of The Medium, and some (but not all) of my friends are, too. I don’t mean everyone should...

Oh, hello there! This is my first try at writing for The Medium. For this article (which will be printed in several installments), I...

The first Sunday I spent in the Medium office, then–features editor Amir Ahmed said he was going to a nearby Thai joint for lunch...

“Where is the divide between our personal private life and academic work life?” asks Natasha Hartono in this week’s lead feature story on social...

U of T has accepted an offer from Unit 1’s bargaining team and it now awaits a vote by members tomorrow. On Tuesday evening, the...

The effect of Unit 1’s strike on campus normalcy escalated drastically on Tuesday following the breakdown of its latest round of negotiations. Large groups of...

The divisive offer made by the bargaining team of CUPE 3902 Unit 1 was rejected on every point, according to updates by Unit 1...

Last week I took two of the unique Behind the Scenes tours, the second half of St. George curatorial master’s student Yan Wu’s project...

This was the first year since 2010 in which there were two (nearly) full competing slates for the UTMSU executive committee, but from the...

It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, and we have a features article by Dana Bibi on the Israeli company SodaStream. The main point of...

The front pages of both UTM’s and U of T’s websites don’t show much about the strike going on. Below large banners about various...

U of T’s courses have been impeded by the strike but the university refuses to meet with the bargaining team, The Medium has learned. In...

Unit 3 will not be joining the strike today. Members of the unit sent their tentative agreement on to the full membership this evening, which...

So. After several close calls over the last 15 years, we finally have a real live strike on our hands. It’s big, but for that...

The year was 1922. The widow of Bram Stoker, who had written the seminal vampire book Nosferatu, was still alive and still held the...

Company secrets are a serious topic at universities these days. One of the most striking cases took place last May, when dean Robert Buckingham...

There are a few things on my mind this week, and none really stands out, so I’ll touch on each. MENTAL HEALTH & MONEY A UTMSU...

University chaplaincies across Canada have finished celebrating Catholic Students’ Week, which at UTM featured a talk by Edward Curtis, a priest and pontifical master...

I’ve been thinking about the fact that there are some groups that work to improve students’ outlooks at university, some that are indifferent, and...

The Dalhousie dentistry case is a very interesting one. There are tons of differently nuanced opinion and news articles online—after reading through them, I...

Any and every religion can be and has been used to destroy or to build up. The determining factors are the people using them...

UTMSU’s approach to the town hall last week was unusual. They strategized the questions they would ask the administrative staff beforehand and expressed concern...

A lot of the media I know as “classic” comes from my parents. It’s the books I was given to read later in childhood,...

The annual general meeting of UTMSU last Thursday included a packed Council Chambers, free T-shirts, birthday cake, questions about international students, financials, and the...

There’s more than one type of respect a person can show, a point that was made clear for me this past week. While preparing to...

One of the articles on the front page of features this week talks about moving out. A Globe and Mail writer who tried it...

The circus is over. Every year there seems to be more tension and toxicity at the U of T student union’s general meeting, but...

Déjà vu. Two years ago The Medium wrote about a referendum to expand the Student Centre, quoting and expanding on a couple of figures...

Confusion arose last week on the subject of a motion to amend the U of T Student Union’s bylaws at its Annual General Meeting...

Reading an email from the executive director of UTMSU to the executive team and associates is disappointing, but not a huge surprise. It features...

I used to take walks in the fall. The season on this side of winter is my favourite one. There’s something about the combination of...

There’s not a whole lot that we take very seriously on this campus, at least politically, as students. Sure, we’re aware of some of...

While our team was editing the “City draws international students” story last week, one of us added a half-serious remark at the end on...

I remember a few quarrels involving our student union and St. George’s about the contract that determines the exchange of student fees between them—it...

When I pitched my idea for this magazine, just for fun, to former editor Michael Di Leo—how I wanted to celebrate the 40th volume...

“It was a simpler time. Mississauga as you know it is not how it was then. “Most of Mississauga in those days was apple orchards....

Welcome to campus, or back to campus, depending on who you are. For me it’s back to campus—and in kind of a strange way,...

Early afternoon. My friend Larissa and I peer out the window of the office at the snowy ground of the Five-Minute Walk. She’s calm. I...

Audio Cine Films sent an email today to U of T student clubs and societies implying that they have been screening movies outside of...

You’re a professor at U of T. You get an email from the dean saying you can get up to $12,000 more in funding...

The UTM Chess Club, founded earlier this year by Ivan Manasuev, won a tournament against Ryerson’s and Brock’s teams this month. Each university sent four...

Filmmaker Richie Mehta, whose second and third feature films will be in theatres in June, took an afternoon last Thursday to visit UTM—his alma...

There are more candidates than usual for UTMSU’s executive positions. But they’re not the most interesting aspect of, well, yet another election. But first, two...

There’s a graduating student exhibit on now in the Blackwood, and a piece by Colin Yau consists of old issues of the Medium with...

A candidate who dropped out is still on the UTSU elections ballot. Luis Moreno, formerly a candidate for VP external, is still listed along with...

I’ve always had a hard time duplicating some of the complaints about food on campus. Admittedly, I don’t know a whole lot about what...

Last week, I went to a consultation on how to work out the kinks of the co-curricular record. The invitation was sent to many...

The UTM Students’ Union has found itself in a few controversies this year. Last month’s “aggressive” vote yes campaign. Their ineffectiveness in preventing the...

The archbishop of Toronto visited UTM for an hour-long lecture on Dante Alighieri’s classic The Divine Comedy to kick off Catholic Students Week on...

UTM’s Hospitality and Retail Services installed a new organic waste digester system in Spigel Hall for a 60-day trial run beginning last Tuesday. The system,...

Some of the time, I feel like I’ve had an epiphany that there is no Medium, no UTM Students’ Union, no UTM Debating Club,...

The English and Drama Student Society’s Poetry Gala was a spectacle on something of a different level compared to previous years. Last year’s announcement...

The Student Centre expansion referendum has failed, according to the unofficial results released by UTMSU today. The union posted the initial vote counts of 1,618...

When I was interviewing candidates for the position of online editor, one of them, a hijab-wearing woman, declined my handshake and explained that she...

As I picked up the mostly black and white CD featuring pictures of a woman and her guitar entangled in various apparently affectionate positions,...

The HCC will have to make cuts to services next year following the failure of a fee increase proposal presented to Quality Services to...

Complaints about fair campaigning are important, but they’re the same year after year, so I’ll give them just a little space this time around. Last...

There haven’t been any earth-shattering events this week, to my knowledge, so here’s a reflective piece. Something I noticed when I attended the UTM Students’...

The UTM Students’ Union is holding a referendum on fee increases that would see the levy rise to $50 per semester for up to...

The referendum is back. That’s not a complaint. Last year, a referendum by UTMSU on fee increases to expand the Student Centre was passed by...

A good question was raised quite unexpectedly, maybe even unintentionally, this week: how wide is the scope of a campus paper? A few UTM students...

The U of T Students’ Union addressed each of its pre-approved motions at its annual general meeting despite procedural motions to amend the agenda...

As someone who happened to start paying close attention to UTSU politics at a time when exciting things were happening, I’m looking forward to...

Some 40 students walked around campus with candles to symbolize their support for victims of gender-based violence in the eighth annual Light the Night...

The Medium was barred from filming the UTM Students’ Union’s annual general meeting last Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon, Raymond Noronha, the president of UTMSU, emailed...

I never finished CTEP. I was enrolled in it for three semesters after entering it in its third year of existence at UTM on...

“Hi persons. Moka, back in this yet again,” begin the liner notes to Moka Only’s Carrots and Eggs. “Thanks for investing your food, drug,...

UTM students are fee-paying, voting members of both UTMSU and UTSU. As their annual general meetings are approach on November 14 and the 27,...

Beside and below this editorial you will find two letters that both seem to be calling for good things: one calling for more attendance...

The Ontario government has pledged $27 million to the province’s colleges and universities to allow them to address mental health issues. As you can...

Somehow I’ve never felt very invested in the co-curricular record. Just last Thursday, a party was thrown for it, complete with a flash mob,...

I’m writing about writing initiatives. I know, I know. “Aren’t you going to talk about David Gilmour?” But it feels kind of like taking...

This year’s Frosh coverage has been significantly more copious than in previous years. It’s rounded off with a final article in the news section...

I go to the green cabinet in our office that holds a wealth of old CDs, mostly indie, that have been sent to us...

The students now reeling from the energy and loud music of Welcome Week and settling into another school year at the good old University...

As an editor-in-chief who stepped into the role after three years not as a journalist but as a copy editor, and who abstained on...

Hey, everyone. It is now endgame, and frankly I’m impressed you’re still taking time to read a newspaper at this point in the semester...

Hi, everyone. I’m Luke, a senior linguistics and French student, and next year’s editor-in-chief. My background at the paper is three years of copy-editing and...

Hi, everyone! Good to see you again! Yeah, I know it’s getting to that heavy time of the semester… but after a weekend of...

A few weeks ago, my parents rented Searching for Sugar Man, and I watched it over my shoulder while doing homework. You’ve probably heard...

Gazing out windows in Santorini or Jerusalem: our writers describe their rooms in international cities.   KABUL, AFGHANISTAN HAKIMA HAFIZI   The white wood frames of the half-open window...

Oh, hello there! Hope you had a relaxing week. (What? It was even more packed than a regular school week? Tell me about it…) Those...

Good morning to you! Or, if you prefer to be greeted in the French supplied by Google Translate, bonjour à vous! That may have seemed...

Hi, everyone! I hope you’re officially back in the groove by now. (I know I ain’t.) This week’s topic is kind of a humble one:...

Hi, everyone. Normally I’m annoyed by how early they start with the Christmas songs, Santa floats, and store displays complete with countdowns, but somehow...

Hello, hello! So, American Thanksgiving happened, and the world is now officially ready to immerse itself in Christmas for the next month. It used...

Hello there! And congratulations on using your procrastination time to read instead of watching videos of cats! Speaking of YouTube, I’m currently doing research by...

Hi! Today’s topic comes from a friend of mine who posed a question to the world of Facebook in his status. That’s the best...

Oh my goodness! You’re reading this! That means you survived Hurricane Sandy! The sheer stamina it must have required—just imagine, to have to carry...

Hello, and welcome to what they tell me will be another rainy week! Let’s all stay indoors and take advantage of the fact that...

Hi again, everyone! I hope you’re getting some time to enjoy the leaves as they enter what I consider the ideal colour range. Blessed...

Dear Editor,   Every week I read every article in your paper two or three times. I’ve done so for the last three years—ever since I started...

Oh, hello, reader! It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Welcome back. Today’s topic is register—and not the kind you had to switch on...

helloeveryoneimgladtoseeyoubackagainforanothervolumeoflukeslanguages thisweekwellbetalkingaboutthedifferencesbetweenspokenandwrittenlanguage Huh, that’s funny. Why does my spell-check say that’s wrong? “Hello” is a word, “everyone” is a word… oh, wait. That’s right. Unlike when...

Oh, hello! Welcome back to this column, in which I try to make the study of language interesting to everyone. Today’s topic is “Is...

About 20 students attended, including regular students and members of UTMSU

Whatever it is, it’s working.

When other languages do borrow, in this modern age it tends to be English they lift what they need from.

Sir! I’ve just come from the frontlines—the enemy is upon us! The dreaded Essays are advancing, the Assignments are attacking from the east, and...

We’re just going to look at what I call “linguistic candy”: checking out some random and cool stuff from various languages.

Since we closed last semester’s run of the series with a piece on defining your own style of language, let’s start this one with something both unique and universal among us: Canadian English.

We do so with the concept of “idiolect”. There’s a lot to be said about this. It comes down to the principle that what you say is unique to you. Because of your genes, your culture, your history, your personality, and even your own choices, you have certain habits of speech (and both old and new habits die hard).

So what do words mean and how is it we all tacitly agree? You say, “Go look in a dictionary, stupid.” But I mean—ah,...

Hello again, everyone! We’re halfway through the series now, and I’m going to take this opportunity to apologize that each subject must be treated so broadly; each one could easily have an entire series of its own.

So, last week I promised you we’d try some do-it-yourself experiments with phonetics (the sounds of language). And I have good news: We will!

What’s a dialect? “Talking with an accent.” What’s an accent? “When people talk funny.” What’s talking funny? “When they don’t sound, you know, normal!” So what’s normal? Actually, not so easy to answer.

“Prescriptive and descriptive? Sounds like you’re trying to teach me something!” (Well, just briefly, okay? Go make some popcorn if it’s that bad.) Basically, whenever people...

As a linguistics student, a new member of LSAS, an editor, and a wannabe writer, I’ve come to appreciate just how pervasive, how everywhere...

Don’t get me wrong. I used to read a lot. I remember my gramma teaching me to read when I was four, and when...

Dear Editor, Re: Mr. Boutilier’s letter I’m glad you sent in your letter, which makes important points about the ban. As an average reader, though, I...

Dear Editor, I’ve written in before to praise The Medium, and my opinion hasn’t changed. Unfortunately, neither has that of the general student population, who...

Oh, it’s you! Hello again! So you’ve come back for more fascinating Histories of Everyday Items? That’s great, because I just happen to have...

Dear Editor, I am a faithful reader of The Medium, and some (but not all) of my friends are, too. I don’t mean everyone should...

Oh, hello there! This is my first try at writing for The Medium. For this article (which will be printed in several installments), I...

In a decisive vote, Unit 1 has accepted U of T’s offer to end the strike through binding arbitration. Unit 1 members will return to...

I’ll be honest—now and then I get tired of writing my typical editorial, so I like to keep a lookout for the topics that...

It’s the start of the year, but soon it’ll be that time again, people, when the question of what to do with your future...

The university hopes to offer organic, free-trade coffee in a café called North Side Bistro in Deerfield Hall when it opens, among other changes...

“Writing doesn’t just allow me to tell a story. It allows me to feel at peace with the event I’m writing about, as if...

UTM has asked Chartwells to extend its contract for another year, Chartwells’ contract with UTM, originally set to expire in April, will likely be extended...

Clubs and academic society representatives discussed the failure of the Student Centre expansion referendum at UTMSU’s open forum held on February 13. The event, which...

Students gathered at the UTM Students’ Union’s annual general meeting last week for the presentation of audited financial statements that recorded a significant profit...

Professor Ulrich Krull has been appointed as the new interim vice president of UTM until August 31, 2017. Krull has served the UTM campus for...

Deerfield Hall is officially open following a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Monday. “Deerfield Hall will serve as an ideal foundation for new experiences, and of...

In his new position as vice-principal of special initiatives, Professor Ulrich Krull plans on moving UTM towards the vision of a more comprehensive university,...

The Medium was established in 1974 by a small team of student journalists. In our 40th anniversary magazine, we dive into the past four decades...