NEWS

Victoria University works to offset $10 million Covid deficit

Michael Elsaesser March 13, 2025

Updates from the most recent Board of Regents meeting On February 13, the Victoria University Board of Regents held a public meeting in the Wymilwood …

Understanding Vic’s engagement with civil discourse

Kaprook Iewwongcharoen and Karim Arif March 13, 2025

Victoria College’s attempts to foster civil discourse have manifested in numerous initiatives and received varying responses Recently, Victoria College has been taking steps to implement ...

McEwan uses AI for policy review

Jessica Beswick March 13, 2025

A look into McEwan’s view on AI in academia. During the Board of Regents meeting on February 13, Rhonda McEwan, President of Victoria College, highlighted ...

Concerns sparked from over six hour VUSAC budget ratification

Karim Arif February 4, 2025

A discussion with the VUSAC President on concerns from the winter budget meetings The Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council (VUSAC) winter 2025 budget ratification on ...

EDITORIAL

Love & Sex & the City

Michael Elsaesser February 4, 2025

Carrie Bradshaw takes on Toronto In a city where our morning coffee order is more consistent than our love lives, I can’t help but wonder …

A deep dive into a graduating mind

Michael Elsaesser January 22, 2025

New year, new term, and new horizons My New Year’s resolution was to start swimming again. I never went competitive. I refused to do 4 ...

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 ...

OPINIONS

The awakening of a nation

Logan Liut March 13, 2025

How the threat of annexation can reforge Canada’s unity and purpose One hundred and fifty-seven years into our national story, we find ourselves faced with …

Joie de vivre

Julia McCarthy March 13, 2025

Unravelling the simplicity of finding moments of life in the everyday Whether we take the measures to acknowledge this or not, life is forever and ...

Subject, Verb, Object

Silas Busby March 13, 2025

What are the consequences of what we know? “Can rocks die?” This is the question proposed in the title of an essay by anthropologist Dr. ...

The myth or actuality of the invisible string

Julia McCarthy March 9, 2025

We’ve all heard the love story that restored our faith in soulmates. The one that encourages hope about that one special, singular person waiting for ...

FEATURES

Shock, awe, and Trump’s first month back in office

Felix Hughes March 13, 2025

An account of the state of American politics Only a month into the second Trump presidency, it feels like it has been 30 months. While …

Date The Strand

Web Editor and The Strand Masthead February 4, 2025

Everyone’s favourite dating game a. Pooja Position: The court jester (social media manager) Worst advice someone has given you about dating: people say you should ...

Trumping Bengal

Druphadi Sen January 22, 2025

On Bengali Hindu Persecution, Trumpian takes, and why America won’t save us More than half a century ago, as the slapdash borders of Partition tore ...

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, ...

ARTS AND CULTURE

Streaming killed the TV star

Tara Karanovic March 13, 2025

With endless content available, why does it still feel like there’s nothing good on TV? Despite the amount of content spoonfed to us by streaming …

In defense of pop music

Pooja Mangra March 13, 2025

An exploration of pop, jazz, and the importance of diversity in music As an unapologetic fan of popular music, watching this year’s 67th Grammy Awards ...

Is your attention span longer than a goldfish’s?

Alexa Fairclough March 13, 2025

Your guide to the attention recession The ‘attention economy’ has been called into question in light of struggles with maintaining focus in today’s increasingly busy ...

Feminism’s forgotten love revolution

Alexa Fairclough February 4, 2025

How the quest for true love inspired a generation of feminists When I was younger, an obsessive reverence rooted in fear of the power of ...

SCIENCE

The fall of the aves

Yaocheng Xia March 13, 2025

What you should know about the avian flu I remember growing up during the avian flu scare. Paranoid of the avian influenza LPAI H7N9 resurfacing …

Will the Paris Agreement hold?

Meadow MacDonald March 13, 2025

The future of climate action—commitment or collapse? On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump’s first day back in office, one of his many executive orders was ...

Love in the lab

Silas Peters February 4, 2025

Four couples who show us that we don’t need to be alone in the lab on Valentine’s Day It’s hard to imagine falling in love ...

The year of hydrotherapy

Silas Peters January 22, 2025

How throwing yourself into an ice bath may be a good thing this flu season The internet is no stranger to trends—particularly those related to ...

POETRY

Skeletal Muscle Physiology

Jaiden Punia March 13, 2025

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Orthodox Judaism and Lesbianism

Mackenzie D'Andrea March 13, 2025

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Sofija Stankovic February 4, 2025

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Patrick Ignasiak February 4, 2025

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