Princess Mononoke: A discovery of human nature
Why are we, as people, addicted to certain things? I am talking here, about the certain kind of sadness; the specific emotion when you...
Sanction Ezra Street parties or stop complaining
This city hates its golden goose. Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge is home to Canada’s eleventh-highest median income, in no small part because of its universities.
But every year...
Why nobody cares about Black History Month in Canada
It’s that time of the year again, when teachers pull out their favourite Martin Luther King quote and Black history references populate your timeline....
Psst – hey! What’s up with Wet’suwet’en?
The Wet’suwet’en (wet-SO-it-en) crisis out West is confusing, constantly moving, and dominating every headline.
We know it can be really difficult to keep up with...
More than just talk – mental illness needs support
By: Stephanie LResources and funding as opposed to awareness, are needed to break mental illness stigma
Mental illness affects one in three Canadians at some...
From sports to video games. Same shit, different stool
Technological developments have a long history of shaping mankind’s demands for new entertainment to fill our ever-increasing leisure time.
From this demand came sports,...
Reflections on racism and coronavirus
In some ways it feels like the coronavirus has taken over my life. Not only is it all over the news and social media, but...
The grads aren’t alright
From Jan. 23 through 24, the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Council held an e-vote on the following resolution: Be it resolved that the GSA...
Putting an end to the gun control ‘debate’
The political right keeps using the same argument against gun-restrictions, and the left rarely has a good response.
As a result, it almost always goes...
Four long years of Brexit
The decades after the UK became a member of the European Union (EU) in 1973 were spent stitching together a complex economic, political and...
