Wastelands of American interventionism
Haniya Siddiqui
April 24, 2026
The consequences of forcing regime change
VUSAC year-end review
The Strand News Team
April 24, 2026
As the academic year comes to an end, the current VUSAC Council is wrapping up their terms and beginning the transition process for newly elected ...
Memes as the artefacts of our ignorance
Haniya Waheed
March 30, 2026
Social media and political propaganda
Winter 2026 Caucus report
Sijil Jindani
March 30, 2026
Transparency, wellness, and finances discussed
Death and Devotion
Sofija Stankovic
March 30, 2026
“And to not know what the next moment will bring… brings you closer to a perception of death. You see, that’s why I think that ...
New faces in old places
Sofija Stankovic
February 19, 2026
“In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfils its various functions. ...
Alone in the wasteland
Matheo Nadon
April 24, 2026
Everyone is dead. You are born completely alone. Would you feel lonely? At first, the answer seems obvious. Probably not. Loneliness usually feels like being ...
Neoliberal Academia: The Death of Morality at UofT
Karim Arif
April 24, 2026
Neoliberal academia has quietly yet increasingly undermined UofT’s moral principles
Art is power. Power is art.
Lia Iannarilli and Malaika Bunzigiye
March 30, 2026
Investigating the relationship between cultural sovereignty and Congolese emancipation
Mirages of the self
Marnie Scott
April 24, 2026
Isolation, wandering, and the solitary quest in American wasteland cinema
We cannot kill “What’s Killing the Poets?”
Sofia Terese Glantz
April 24, 2026
"What’s Killing the Poets?" may not have qualified for any awards, but it won the audience Dramafest
The university speaks
Bosko Garaca
March 30, 2026
Brian Soucek’s newest book addresses universities’ most pressing questions on academic freedom
Lunchbox for the apocalypse
Shivantika Shegar
April 24, 2026
Picture this: the world, in all of its peculiar glory, decides to end tomorrow. Imagine that this sudden apocalypse came with the token doomsday tragedies—barren, …
Should humanity colonise space?
Ziad Nashad and Zachary Xerri
April 24, 2026
As space settlement becomes plausible, we must ask whether leaving Earth is a necessity or an irreversible mistake.
Artefacts of Science
Ziad Nashad and Zachary Xerri
March 30, 2026
How chance encounters with the physical world set innovation in motion.
Anthropocene
Charis Li
April 24, 2026
Oh my love, there is ruin That I have dipped my toes in A polluted connection An exploitative relation No matter how much I do …
LVX ÆTERNA
Sebin Cho
April 24, 2026
Waterboard at seven, Legacy parkade at eleven; she reclined in her seat, black plastic smoked to crystal, and with hand like pale candelabra reached for ...
VI. UNREAL CITY MMXXV
Diana Nagporwalla
April 24, 2026
The skyline is sharp and jagged So when smog slaps it, Rain bleeds, thick and oily and hesitant when Every clock broke last week in ...
Fucker dance
Ava Reitmaier Stone
March 30, 2026
Motivations can be understood as they manifest in the reactions to each moment, everyone is coming together in the Now—this cannot be transcended as it ...
The best places on campus to survive a nuclear war
Max Friedman-Cole
April 24, 2026
An unfortunately-prescient guide to UofT’s best fallout shelters
Death by UofTears
L F. Shubert
April 24, 2026
A student rewrite of The Wasteland’s “IV. Death by Water”
Actually, my filthy dorm room is a museum
Jia Bawa
March 30, 2026
Welcome to the museum. Gloves will be provided upon entry.





