OPINIONS

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How Rock Band revolutionized my reading week experience

I fundamentally believe that Rock Band is the single greatest bonding experience. Not convinced? I have a case study. My friend invited me up to her farm with a bunch of her friends for reading week. I was elated and prepared to have a fire week. However, I didn’t know ...
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Election reflection

For the fifteenth year in a row, global freedom declined in 2020, according to the American non-profit organization Freedom House. This democratic downturn was hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic, as autocrats ranging from Hungary’s Orbán Viktor to Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed abused their emergency powers to consolidate control over their countries. ...
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Remembering Norm Macdonald, a relentless original

Norm Macdonald’s death this past September came out of nowhere. The 61-year-old comic, known for his time on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, had been diagnosed with cancer nine years ago. Keeping the diagnosis under wraps made the announcement of his death all the more shocking––it was also an ...
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The “underground man” in pandemic times

At the start of the pandemic, we saw the appearance of a peculiar type of character who has become symbolic of the political division and the misinformation of our time. This emergence has made some of our family gatherings awkward and unfortunate events. Many of us have had to block ...
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Bookstore budget battles

Unpacking the exorbitant textbook prices that haunt my parents’ pockets
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Not my coming-of-age movie

Standing at the crossroads between film and race
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Summer reflections

How a seemingly uneventful summer revealed new things about myself, and how it will change the course of my academic career
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Why are we still building pipelines?

Visions of decolonization in an extractive world
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Pop-ups and what-nots

The fashion industry’s latest trend isn’t an article of clothing
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A vaccinated education

On the tumult and triumphs of mandatory vaccinations at UofT