Students continue concerns about Vic award sponsoring study at Israeli universities As students across the University of Toronto continue calls to disclose, divest, and cut ties with Israeli academic institutions complicit in apartheid, there remain questions and concerns from members of the Victoria College community regarding the federated college’s Coburn Award. Students have raised challenges […]
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 campus. Our team felt it would be disingenuous to our purpose not to have a special edition focusing on the central topic of campus dialogue and politics for the past
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The Strand gives previews for our most anticipated films at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is back this year to transform the city into the global centre of film from September 5 to 15. The Strand will have full coverage of the film festival, including different film reviews.
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Dearest Strand reader, I feel that student journalism can represent the purest form of journalism itself. We are acute case studies in local reporting. The Strand is funded by a student levy, which allows for us to exist without the worries of attracting advertisers or giving in to the field of rage bait. Local journalism
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I speak in harmonies words by Michael Elsaesserillustration by Maria Vidal Valdespino I’m proud of the way I talk;Each word handcrafted by generations before me,Carved from great stone, and shaved of splint edges.Each flow stems from rhythm,Each tone, mother’s tongue.I am but one square in a quilt,Stretching far beyond the horizonAnd stitched through long-lost hometowns.My
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Description of our Organisation The Victoria College Environmental Fashion Show is a collective for students who see fashion as a medium for change in the world. Our 2024 Fashion Shows features the work of over 200 UofT students in a two-day weekend event. Come see “Deliria” on March 30 and 31. Grab your tickets in
An interview with Ken Chan, the new bursar and CAO of Victoria University
The bursar’s building plans Read More »
A Barbenheimer-style back-and-forth duel on ideas of friendship, from caricatures inspired by Machiavelli and Carrie Bradshaw
In defense of platonic love Read More »
A tame night of reports from both new and departing administrators
Winter 2024 Caucus Report Read More »
Vivienne Westwood’s SS24 collection, and the memorialisation of fashion designers
To love and live on the runway Read More »
