NEWS

Victoria College’s Fall 2024 Caucus Report

Karim Arif and Jessica Beswick December 9, 2024

An overview of Vic’s Fall 2024 Caucus Administrative Reports Registrar Yvette Ali started the caucus with a report on the recent move of their office …

Vic’s response to restrictions on international students

Krapook Iewwongcharoen December 9, 2024

Canada introduces new immigration measures that impact UofT’s international student community On November 12, Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, made a statement regarding the new ...

Photo of Dr. McEwen talking to community members

President McEwen on Mental Health, Fossil Fuel Divestment and other topics.

Karim Arif November 20, 2024

A snippet into The Strand’s interview with President McEwen on recent Vic and student affairs. Why do you think Victoria College finds it so difficult ...

Doug Ford removes bike lanes

Jessica Beswick November 20, 2024

Doug Ford’s plans to remove bike lanes and its reception During a speech on October 17, 2024, Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed that the province ...

EDITORIAL

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 ...

The truth shall make you free

Michael Elsaesser August 26, 2024

Dearest Strand reader, I feel that student journalism can represent the purest form of journalism itself. We are acute case studies in local reporting. The ...

Our Editor-in-Chief is a ______man student

Shelley Yao and Celena Ho April 29, 2024

Celena tells all

OPINIONS

I have no place

Silas Busby December 9, 2024

On Métis identity, temporality, and (de)territorialisation Where am I from? What a tricky question. There are four answers I typically give depending on the context. …

Pomacanchi: community, family, and the resistance against oblivion

Manuela Mora Castillo December 9, 2024

A conversation with Professor Janett Vengoa This interview was conducted in Spanish, and all translations are the author’s. Located two hours away from Cusco in ...

Chasing the feeling of home

Ava Sales December 9, 2024

The privilege, courage, and longing tied to the universal pursuit of home I consider home to be a feeling. A feeling strongly associated with family, ...

Introducing another form of capitalism: surveillance capitalism

Ava Sales November 26, 2024

Every click, swipe, and post = $$$ for social media companies The 2020 film The Social Dilemma was not overexaggerating when they said if we ...

FEATURES

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 ...

The People’s Circle for Palestine: A Graphic Timeline

Anonymous October 18, 2024

Victoria’s royal standards

Julian Apolinario August 26, 2024

Queen Victoria died at the turn of the twentieth century. A hundred years later, the remnants of British colonialism still pervade the University of Toronto ...

ARTS AND CULTURE

The politics of belonging

Maya Cutulle December 9, 2024

When culture becomes a competition They say that university is where we find our people. We tend to gravitate towards the people who remind us …

The House and The Home: a GLAM exhibition

Alexa Fairclough, Arts and Culture Editor December 9, 2024

Victoria GLAM wants to make you feel at home Victoria University’s own Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) pre- professional students organisation is hosting an ...

A Reflection On My Journey Across Nations in the Wake of the US Presidential Election Results

Natalie Lau December 5, 2024

A perspective on how life across borders reveals the stakes of political decisions and the value of civic engagement As an immigrant to Canada, having ...

Review: VCDS and TCDS’ Next to Normal

Julia Pelitis December 5, 2024

Who is normal? Many musicals deal with themes of mental illness, but none do it as tastefully as Next to Normal. The VCDS (Victoria College ...

SCIENCE

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 ...

Polio’s re-emergence in Gaza

Julian Apolinario October 18, 2024

For most people in North America, polio is a distant memory – for Gazans, it is a part of their reality From the Canadian and ...

Who really made the desert bloom?

Sara Qadoumi and Tala Qadoumi October 18, 2024

An exploration of Palestinian agricultural history and the environmental & socio-political consequences of Israel’s cultivation techniques “It was only after we made the desert bloom ...

POETRY

Gesticulating ginger roots to knuckle-bones in rivers scrapedof solitude sallow and sinkingfeeling sends moonshine minglingflexing her fingers in jugscharcoal chisels sentience into itchyrays peddling pith …

i do not know banyan trees

Jennifer Chiou December 9, 2024

instead florida palms and pines,home sits in grid-rows of asphalt shingles and gleaming canals,no grand mountains, no ancient valleys.home is young and foreign––like me, sometimes,who ...

The ecstasy of germs

Patrick Ignasiak December 9, 2024

These smithereens I – our little segmentations, clearly visible, emerges as human bodies, as the mood to fill your apartment with liquid and enjoy the ...

drive me mad formless one

Luke Ax December 9, 2024

It’s been three months since you left,and I’m lying on my back in thegrass, picturing your crag-toothed slot-canyon grin, mybody pouring into the coldempty sky ...