NEWS

Concerns sparked from over six hour VUSAC budget ratification

Karim Arif February 4, 2025

A discussion with the VUSAC President on concerns from the winter budget meetings The Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council (VUSAC) winter 2025 budget ratification on …

Elections: what’s happening?

Karim Arif February 4, 2025

Breaking down Canada’s current political climate with Professor Lawrence LeDuc Continuing the discussion on the upcoming federal elections, The Strand recently interviewed Professor Emeritus Lawrence ...

MPP Jessica Bell on housing, transit, and drug policy

Michael Elsaesser January 22, 2025

An interview with the University-Rosedale representative on top issues facing students and Ontarians Jessica Bell is the MPP for the riding of University-Rosedale, representing its ...

Changes made to Coburn Award

Karim Arif January 22, 2025

Criteria for acceptance into the Coburn Fellowship Award eased In a December 2024 meeting, the Victoria University Senate approved amendments to the Coburn Fellowship Award. ...

EDITORIAL

Love & Sex & the City

Michael Elsaesser February 4, 2025

Carrie Bradshaw takes on Toronto In a city where our morning coffee order is more consistent than our love lives, I can’t help but wonder …

A deep dive into a graduating mind

Michael Elsaesser January 22, 2025

New year, new term, and new horizons My New Year’s resolution was to start swimming again. I never went competitive. I refused to do 4 ...

Where the heart is

Michael Elsaesser December 9, 2024

HOME—by any other name I have never been homesick. I spent my entire life in one house in the suburbs of Ottawa. Learning to bike ...

The first draft of history

Michael Elsaesser October 18, 2024

We must protect journalism and freedom of speech, on campus and beyond The Strand, as a student newspaper, intends to reflect the conversations happening on ...

OPINIONS

Give, give, give

Julia Plotkin and Amy Yang February 4, 2025

Women lose too much in pursuit of love and sex Modernity defines ‘love’ as an open concept to be felt and desired by all without …

The myth of college soulmates: navigating expectations of love in your 20s

Web Editor and Natalie Contardi February 4, 2025

Why the pressure to find ‘the one’ in university may be misguided For years, everyone has told me that my post-secondary years will define my ...

Twink culture

Silas Busby February 4, 2025

Desire, gender, and the hetero masculine gaze Content Warning: this article discusses eating disorders and racism, which may be triggering for some readers. It is ...

Why You’re Falling Prey to Situationships

Kayla Co February 4, 2025

Navigating the Gray Area of Modern Dating ‘Situationship.’ The term sprung into popularity as of late to put an easy label on our confusing and ...

FEATURES

Date The Strand

Web Editor and The Strand Masthead February 4, 2025

Everyone’s favourite dating game a. Pooja Position: The court jester (social media manager) Worst advice someone has given you about dating: people say you should …

Trumping Bengal

Druphadi Sen January 22, 2025

On Bengali Hindu Persecution, Trumpian takes, and why America won’t save us More than half a century ago, as the slapdash borders of Partition tore ...

Entertaining hate

Sophia Bannon, Ida Khanlou, Kate Moffett and Manuela Mora Castillo December 9, 2024

Victoria College’s civil discourse In the world of politics, manners can get a little muddled. Regardless of the spaces in which they are held—online forums, ...

From The Fruit Machine to Facial Recognition

Mia Jakobsen November 20, 2024

How queer surveillance has evolved from the Cold War to the Digital Age If you’ve ever studied the Cold War in a history class, chances ...

ARTS AND CULTURE

Feminism’s forgotten love revolution

Alexa Fairclough February 4, 2025

How the quest for true love inspired a generation of feminists When I was younger, an obsessive reverence rooted in fear of the power of …

AceO3

JP February 4, 2025

Engaging with erotica through an asexual lens Erotica—media portraying sex or its elements—has two uses. Its surface-level purpose is to sexually arouse the viewer. Its ...

Finding community through history on stage

Michael Elsaesser February 1, 2025

An interview with writer/director Mashreka Mahmood about her new play 71 The Strand: As you are both the writer and director, could you walk through ...

Aesthetics, fascism and Gen Z

Emmanuella Nwabuoku January 22, 2025

Is our generation as progressive as we thought? Donald Trump is set to begin his second term on January 20, 2025, this time having secured ...

SCIENCE

Love in the lab

Silas Peters February 4, 2025

Four couples who show us that we don’t need to be alone in the lab on Valentine’s Day It’s hard to imagine falling in love …

The year of hydrotherapy

Silas Peters January 22, 2025

How throwing yourself into an ice bath may be a good thing this flu season The internet is no stranger to trends—particularly those related to ...

Where science finds its home and who it lives with

Silas Peters December 9, 2024

How our perceptions of who does science are wrong Since we were children, science was presented to us in a specific way: white lab coats, ...

Corporate stalking

Raj Parekh November 20, 2024

The insidious world of surveillance advertising Imagine this: pop-ups that plaster your browser window with the latest Zelda game that you just looked up, Spotify ...

POETRY

attends

Sofija Stankovic February 4, 2025

memory sends rivulets in slalomdown her spine, belligerent skeins spin awayfrom fingers tangling twine instead of touch,attends or attends? move or move on tostep into …

leg-thing

Patrick Ignasiak February 4, 2025

crisscrossing such full of probes who full of magnitude with each adheres: even before how to bend in several directions since adjusts in outerletting – ...

progressive dirty talk

Jessica Beswick February 4, 2025

i appreciate you mentioning the dichotomy of my 10 inch clit and moderately sized tits but first, we must assess the accessibility of the space ...

Somptult

Patrick Ignasiak January 22, 2025

There are many meshed and just enough, so in their brittle wakefulness molluscs that lumped. Cancerous behind their voices. Shook their shadows before the slough-off ...