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Canada’s economy ran on one donor for decades. Ottawa is in the market for another, but compatibility is everything For years, Canada’s trade bloodstream has …
Draining Cornell’s reputation
Blood money at UofT?
Cutthroat conversations with the University—Rosedale candidates
Linger
Facades of impermanence The world tries to sell you a certain idea of temporality. Your access to everything is temporary; it only lasts as long …
Sucking the marrow of life
The culture vulture: flying with the flock at your convenience
Two birds of the same feather, except one wants sparrow cred without sparrow wings When I was a kid, I came across a magazine with …
Work is sucking up my soul
Domestically manufactured fallacies
My information? Public. My second job? Unacquired.
A note from the editor
Jane Doe A few weeks ago, my roommates and I sat together, buried under blankets, pillows, and an eerie quiet. A few moments prior, we …
Around the world at TIFF
Creation of Dracula
A note from the editor
TIFF in conversation
A discussion of Elsinore dir. Simon Stone *The following contains spoilers for Elsinore, dir. Simon Stone, starring Andrew Scott. Did you feel that the montages …
TIFF in conversation
On duendes, sirens, and ghosts
Breaking boundaries in rodeo
Caring for Count Dracula
The psychological toll of caregiving and the complicated relationship between familial duty, cultural expectations, and mental health My grandmother has a heart condition. She cannot …
Vampire disease
TICK, TICK, TICK: The bloodsuckers that just won’t die
All about bloodsucking leeches
Mirror Image
Though I falter at your touch, I nonetheless remember: What is brightness without the shadow that follows it, forlorn and shaking frostbite nipping at its …
Saw Trick
Beginning of a Child
Calliope and the Sirens
You’re…Odysseus?
Excerpts from an alternate ending to The Odyssey—found in a trailer, buried under SparkNotes sheets and Cheeto dust























