Type O, Canada

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 …

A silhouette of 7 people and the cornell logo in the background

Draining Cornell’s reputation

The Cornell 7 case highlights the important influence of the media Recently, there has been much discourse amongst college students, journalists, and commentators alike on ...

Blood money at UofT?

An interview with Climate Justice UofT  With this summer’s devastating forest fires in recent memory, the climate crisis is top of mind for many young ...

Cutthroat conversations with the University—Rosedale candidates

A city council debate On September 24, the nave of the College Street United Church was filled with passionate followers of municipal politics and community ...

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

“These forgetful spirits hope for resurrection / into bodies. They start to want to see the sky.” – The Aeneid, Vergil, trans. Shadi Bartsch It ...

Don’t waste your assets

Final remarks

Artefacts of absence

Zagreb’s museum of broken relationships

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

The future I dread is being a dead-eyed employee, pale from all my life being sucked out by a company I have this recurring nightmare ...

Domestically manufactured fallacies

For a social and political power so constantly exploited by the United States as language, even the current administration demonstrates its limits. Traditionally, the guiding ...

My information? Public. My second job? Unacquired.

A tale of two shitties. Yep, we’ve all been there, coming across a scam. Given that I constantly point out any clickbait or AI-generated reels ...

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

Crossing continents between Osgoode and St. Andrew There are a lot of reasons that someone might call TIFF magical. Maybe they saw a movie that ...

Creation of Dracula

The vampire, the concept and the character, has existed for millennia. Camazotz inhabited the caves of Mesoamerica, the Vetala dwelled in Indian cemeteries, and the ...

A note from the editor

Veiling verity: on AI and journalism One of the many joys of working in academia and journalism is the opportunity it provides its students to ...

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

A discussion of  Double Freedom dir. Lisandro Alonso How did the film’s form strike you? J: I feel like it felt kind of clean. It ...

On duendes, sirens, and ghosts

A review of David Turpin’s Ancestors “Who’s going to watch me disappear?” — Ancestors, David Turpin Some time this summer, I found myself descending into ...

Breaking boundaries in rodeo

Cheyenne at TIFF Eight seconds is like the blink of an eye. But on the rodeo circuit, eight seconds could be the difference between life ...

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

How porphyria became linked to some of the most recognizable features of vampires Long before Edward Cullen sparkled in the sun, vampires were creatures of ...

TICK, TICK, TICK: The bloodsuckers that just won’t die

How does a tick feed? What allows it to use hosts as endless blood supplies? Most importantly, how do you kill a tick? Ticks are ...

All about bloodsucking leeches

Nature’s very own vampires Lurking just beneath the surface of many water bodies is a creature that perfected the art of bloodsucking millions of years ...

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

Tonight’s trick won’t surprise you It’s been over a century since she’s made her debut. Aquarium-like glass pens, many have tried to peer through and ...

Beginning of a Child

  Sing to me, oh Muse of a child so cherished in her world set to perish, Hades’ eyes dark and bruised.   He watches, ...

Calliope and the Sirens

Calliope   Voice like a salved bruise,    I sing atop the heavens,    Chanting a sweet breeze    Agalope   Echoing the western sea,    The ...

You’re…Odysseus?

Excerpts from an alternate ending to The Odyssey—found in a trailer, buried under SparkNotes sheets and Cheeto dust

Q & A outside Cineplex: The Odyssey

A professor and a student walk out of a movie theater

A commuter’s epic

To those who take an odyssey, five days a week

The best places on campus to survive a nuclear war

An unfortunately-prescient guide to UofT’s best fallout shelters
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