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 …
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 ...
Transfero, transferre, transtuli, translatum
The blood of the ancient lives on in us I must admit, I was about to write this editorial on Varney the Vampire: Or, the …
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
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 ...
Blood red curtains
ESP Free Jazz nights at Water to Wine At the corner of Triller Avenue and Queen Street West, people stop to peer through the deep …
Sinking our fangs into vampire literature
How Dracula continues to slake our thirst for terror Although scholarly interpretations of Dracula see the novel as a fearful embodiment of some pressing threat ...
Look Back TIFF review
What does it mean to create?Hirokazu Kore-eda is a director best known for his humanistic approach to story-telling, exploring the immense emotional weight found in ...
Beyond the barricade
Behind-the-scenes of TIFF red carpetsCamera flashes. Overachieving journalists. Designer gowns. Elite afterparties. Someone shouting, “what are you wearing?” This is the glamour that I was ...
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 ...
I was waiting for you
/You find me on the steps, knees bent, all my promises having shattered on my tongue. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. Only a …
A tender act
Waiting in the shadows to seize her quarry, Lips prepared to puncture and drain the marrow, Lifeless eyes aglow with the hollow hunger That gnaws ...
Mother
Mother i am your daughter from our hunched shoulders to our furrowed brows i am your daughter from our reproachful eyes to our sharp ...
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 ...
The fine lines of vampire desire (and how they transcend them)
To perfect the art of creating the prime sexual icon that is the /vampire/ is to dance in between the lines of rigid meaning. It …
Joan Harker’s journal
(Kept in shorthand) 1 October. Toronto. – Left Burwash at 7:35 pm, on 1st October, arriving at home one hour later; should have arrived at ...
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