NEWS

The Strand interviews undergraduates conducting research during COVID-19

Over two decades ago, in 1999, The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Marshall that the Mi’kmaq have a right to fish in order to provide themselves with “moderate livelihood.” Twenty-one years later, on September 17, 2020—theanniversary of the ruling—the Sipekne’katik First Nation held a blessing ceremony for ...

UofT students comment on challenges associated with dual-delivery courses

The history, origins, and follow-up events of the Scholar Strike in the UofT community

An inside look at the online and remote election period

I booked my flight home to Florida in March of 2020, midway through my first winter term at the University of Toronto. That was the beginning of a summer ridden with reckless government policies in response to COVID-19. Amidst a pandemic, individual actions, such as wearing a mask, affect us ...

CESB, CERB, and Employment Insurance explained

The hunger strike for Indigenous suicide victims in Saskatchewan

The 1784 Haldimand Proclamation was a decree that guaranteed the Haudenosaunee of  Six Nations a tract of land in Ontario as compensation for the alliance established with the British during the American Revolution. This granted land extended from Lake Erie all the way down to the Grand River in southwestern ...

The “other side” of WE Day