To experience or not to experience, that is the quarantine question
In this Covid-19 era, there’s a word you’ve probably heard over and over. It’s a word most of us know intuitively, likely learned by...
The Role of Art in a Time of Crisis
In his romantic-era sonnet Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley describes the ruins of an ancient king—his political legacy undone by the indiscriminate forces of history. All...
The Unseen Pandemic
The Impacts of Covid-19 on Climate Activism
A year ago, on November 29, 2019, I was standing among hundreds of other Toronto residents in Nathan...
The Essential Poems
my house burned down last night
i didn’t watch it happen
my eyes were shut
but I felt the fire’s heat
set free to the passion
that once found...
I am (not) essential
The truth is, I’m not essential, and no one cares.
The world pre-Covid-19 seems like a faint memory, tucked away in the deep recesses of...
How George Floyd’s Death Underlines the Importance of Equity and Human...
"Please! I can't breathe!" Those were some of George Floyd’s last words, as former-officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck.
The history of...
Editor’s Note
We’re all facing our own identity crisis.
Though we may refute it, every day we hope to find the true key in the search for...
Fake news, opinions, and change: a story of consequence.
Hours after the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, many of our Facebook feeds may have been hit with a similar...
Restoring the Integrity of Journalism
Technology has ushered us into a new age—one filled with an abundance of information available at a moment’s notice to billions of people across...
Finding a balance that fits your lifestyle
When individuals, especially women, look at Instagram models, such as Kayla Itsines, Diana and Felicia of basebodybabes, or Jen Selter, it is easy to...
Friday at Sihan’s
Shirt off, gut out, and a flashing unicorn horn on his head, Sihan Zheng yells at the top of his lungs, “suck it.” His...
Your sexts are permanent, and other horrifying thoughts
The adage of “Everything posted online stays there forever,” a once comforting thought, has now become a horrifying technological dystopian reality that many people...