EDITORIAL

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New year, same (dis)orientation

On navigating the upcoming year and looking to the Vic community for guidance
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Sweet niblets! Life is a rodeo!

Vol. 64, as told through Hannah Montana song titles
Faded artistic depiction of a person's reflection, representing the magazine theme of 'Mirage'

Phantasm

Reflections on illusions
Scrapbook-like collage of influential Black artists and figures

BLVCKcellence

Celebrating beauty, creativity, diversity, love, culture
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I’m feeling (20)22

Taylor Swift was right when she said, “We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time”
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Journalism as storytelling

Putting the "story" back in "news story"

A new normal

This past summer, I developed the habit of taking walks around my neighbourhood. It was partly because I hoped a change of scenery every now and then would reignite my stifled creativity, but it was mostly because my parents begged me to do something other than watch Netflix in bed ...
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Educate your imagination

A holistic approach to learning—both inside and outside the classroom
An illustration of student looking into a hedge maze

On orienting ourselves

Welcome to Vol. 64 of The Strand

What does silence say?

On Renaming Ryerson, the Azarova affair, “This isn’t Canada,” and student papers’ potential