EDITORIAL

Why electoral reform would be bad for Canada  On February 1st, Democratic Institutions Minister, Karina Gould, announced to Canadians that the Trudeau government would no longer be pursuing electoral reform, a position that was a focal point of their 2015 election campaign. In his first throne speech following the election, ...

The Strand's editors reflect on The Women's March from January 21st

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On November 8th, Americans decided to elect an individual whose campaign centred entirely on intolerance, racism, misogyny, and bigotry. Above all, white Americans decided that they were willing to ignore or embrace the intolerance that Donald Trump presented day after day. Many decided that their “economic” interests outweighed those of ...

By now, everyone on the UofT campus will have heard about the comments made by Professor Jordan Peterson regarding free speech. Our Opinions Editor Shailee Koranne and Arts & Culture Editor Molly Kay spoke to Professor A.W. Peet to discuss.

If you went on any sort of social media between October and January of last year, you most likely saw—and promptly became annoyed by—the constant posts and messages asking you to vote to amend the board structure of the University of Toronto Students’ Union. The campaign to bring the UTSU ...

While starting university is an exciting and effervescent experience, it is undeniably overwhelming. You have more than enough voices telling you that it’s going to be the best time of your life, coupled with an onslaught of daily notifications from a confusing amount of university-affiliated websites. There’s this rush of ...

It's time to wake up to the culture of silence surrounding abuse that enabled him

­­Let’s say that it’s been a tough few weeks. Especially in Toronto, where issues surrounding marginalized voices silenced by the system have been very close to the surface. After an investigation spanning several months, it was announced on March 18 that the anonymous police officer responsible for the death of ...

This year’s VUSAC election cycle was dominated by the idea that students aren’t properly represented by our student union. This kind of rhetoric is bad for everyone.