EDITORIAL

Upon picking a theme for this issue, the sitcom-lovers in the room won. I can’t say I’ve watched any Seinfeld, but that’s just fine—Jerry’s not the focus here. Longtime readers may remember the “Patchwork” issue from two years ago, an excuse to print whatever wherever. “What’s the deal with… [blank]?” ...

Minutes spent musing are minutes spent missing And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair — […] Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a ...

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 if we’re addicted to quick fixes, or if we actually crave something that lasts? This February, as we swipe right on both candidates and Tinder ...

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 am training. Instead, I was on the path to becoming a lifeguard or instructor. That path ended after I dealt with the consecutive waves of ...

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 on the same road where I learnt to drive. Enclosed by the same walls I scribbled over as a child. I never got the chance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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