What is the Future of Education?

The University of Toronto refuses to invest in meaningful social change There is a serious ideological battle lurking in the shadows at the University of …

The Name of the Game

A Historical Analysis of Trump’s Recent Renaming Spree News outlets and magazines must love Donald J. Trump. It seems like every day there is another ...
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The Costs of Bill 98

The future of the TTC and commuting in the GTA In March 2026, Premier Doug Ford introduced Bill 98—a bill intended to build housing and ...

The president’s odyssey: navigating the future of education

Interim president William Robins shares his vision for Vic’s next great chapter and the personal journey that shaped his leadership The 2026-27 academic year marks ...

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

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 ...

The settlers win when the Earth stops breathing

Modern science fiction by African-American authors show an imagined, vitalized Earth that thoroughly disrupts colonial narratives. In my early encounters with water, I met it ...

Cuddling with a chatbot and its consequences

In a decade where we are more socially isolated than ever, the allure of intimacy presented by artificial intelligence has only fragmented us further 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 …

Like a “real” girl

A sociological understanding of how AI adopts and reproduces oppressive, traditionally ‘feminine’ gender roles. The relationship between gender and artificial intelligence grows increasingly complex. Many ...

You are your own voyeur

The paradox of male performativity I recently got into a tiff with a friend of mine about the pink heart stickers he had stuck onto ...

Avant tout, soyons canadiens

The odyssey of the Franco-Canadian identity Over the course of the past month I spent overseas, and especially upon returning home to my small Canadian ...

Mentally, I’m in a visual novel

Breaking the ordinary of dating simulators Content warnings: mental illness, murder Visual novels, especially dating sims, have been stereotyped to death. There is very much …

The love of the thrill

An exploration of crime literature To turn the page and discover new facts, expose a new suspect, uncover a betrayal, and to find a shock ...

A Rebours and the charm of Bladee

I spent my summer reading A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a story about a frail young misanthrope named Des Esseintes living in 19th-century Paris who ...

Trinity College Dramatic Society’s Urinetown sets the standard for campus theater

Resistance, queerness, and performance perfection It’s only September, and Urinetown at the Theatre Pass Murielle has already given every other campus production a run for ...

A Necker cube explained by two stimuli

A guide to detecting visual illusions and deceptive cues To the readers, please note that having an experience related to the one described does not …

Your grandma wants (needs) you to find a girlfriend

Why the love of a grandmother can be more self-serving than it seems My grandmother loves me. I hope yours does too (I really do). ...

On the odysseys across the Serengeti

 A story of survival for Thomson’s gazelles Across the savannah, animals seasonally engage in a long migration journey across the 30 000 km stretch of ...

Tripping into a psychedelic state of mind

A new Royal Ontario Museum exhibition unites diverse perspectives on the scientific and cultural odyssey of psychedelics  My curiosity with magic mushrooms and the ‘psychedelic ...

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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