OPINIONS

Scatter-brained thoughts on our capacity to adore the mundane As someone who has always been pretty sentimental and defensive against change, intense feelings of nostalgia are well known to me. When transitioning into new stages of life, I tend to glance back forlornly at the seemingly perfect bygone things. Nostalgia ...

Remembering, letting go, and moving forward As the leaves on campus gently start to fade into orange, we are reminded of a brand new school year ahead and the end of another summer season. Many of us may feel that time is fleeting, our degree and our youth passing us ...

Exploring popularity, waste, and consumer culture Meet the Labubu. These ultra-trendy monster character keychains created by Kasing Lung are both cute and disturbing. As the hottest item on social media, these blind-box items have been spotted on the bags of Dua Lipa and Rihanna. However, since consumers never know which ...

Who gets a spot in the collective unconscious? /Content Warning: Discussions of racism and homophobia./  Thanks to a series of events involving a broken button maker and my coworker being late, I managed to score myself a free ticket to Vancouver’s outdoor Shakespeare festival, Bard on the Beach. As I ...

Lessons in Guilt from MacKinnon and Foucault Content Warnings:  Mentions of Sexual Assault. Before I begin, I must confess to a handful of biases because to  do otherwise would be irresponsible. I am a survivor of a sexual  assault perpetrated by a young hockey-playing man from  southwestern Ontario and am ...

Reclaiming the culture of cowboyism and revolutionising buckaroos, cowpokes, and Canucks Everybody wants to be a cowboy. The culture of cowboys has become an overwhelmingly prominent trend in popular media over the past decade, with stereotypical western faux prints and cowboy boots dominating the masses. This upper-class phenomenon of ‘playing ...

What are the consequences of what we know? “Can rocks die?” This is the question proposed in the title of an essay by anthropologist Dr. Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University. More than one person will have snickered in reading that sentence. If you can conclusively prove otherwise, five Canadian dollars ...

How the threat of annexation can reforge Canada’s unity and purpose One hundred and fifty-seven years into our national story, we find ourselves faced with an existential crisis unlike any we have faced in our sovereign history. The reality of today is that Canadians have been unforgivably betrayed by our ...

Unravelling the simplicity of finding moments of life in the everyday Whether we take the measures to acknowledge this or not, life is forever and always passing through us. We can view this as an overwhelming experience, a reminder of everything we have to accomplish within our day to day ...