OPINIONS

[lead]Kanye’s PR Problems[/lead] With the drawn-out release of his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, Kanye West is once again making headlines with alarming frequency. For the vast majority of us, not much recap is required. We’re at the point where every oddball tweet of his is reported as ...

Last Wednesday was Bell Let’s Talk Day, a marketing campaign where Bell encouraged people to talk about mental health and promised they would donate five cents for each use of #BellLetsTalk on social media. If your Facebook feed was anything like mine, it was filled with post after post about ...

  Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Brunswickan.   It wouldn’t be a new year without resolutions. Many of us are determined to make positive changes in our lives, like prying ourselves off of the couch and becoming more physically active and fit. This is a good thing—but ...

[lead]Structuring a mindful diet[/lead] A few years ago, I started eating a gluten-free diet due to an allergy that manifested itself in my skin. I trusted health food stores and packaging thoughtlessly, and I never read ingredient lists once I saw the trusted “gluten-free” label because I wanted a “quick ...

[lead]An argument against chill culture [/lead] For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hearing some variation of the phrase “chill out” from my peers. In elementary school I was no stranger to the term “spaz,” and while my first encounters with it struck me as cruel and unfair, I ...

January is the cruelest month. Gone are the days when we could go to sleep at four in the morning without worrying about being late for school, and wake up in the afternoon carelessly for “brunch.” Gone are the nights when we could gorge ourselves with food and delicacies without ...

[lead]A guide for the frightened and nervous[/lead] Are you interested in entering a field that requires lots of financial investment with no guarantee of economic, emotional, or professional reward? Did you drag yourself through your undergraduate degree and then think to yourself, “I could use a few more years of ...

The University of Toronto has already conceded that investing in an industry that has been proven to cause negative health effects is unethical. With this fact in mind, the choice for the university to divest from the fossil fuel industry should not only be an obvious conclusion, but also an ...

The energy in Toronto has become palpable in 2015. Even with the Pan Am Games’ summer of disruption, the city has had a buzz that it can’t seem to shake, even as the weather dips into single-digit temperatures. You can’t walk around the downtown core without spotting a twenty-something in ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published under the author’s pseudonym, Lyra Parks. The holidays are just around the corner, and this means different things to different people. For the retail and service sector, it means a hiring spree unmatched in any other season. The industry is preparing to sell furiously ...