Editorial

Upon picking a theme for this issue, the sitcom-lovers in the room won. I can’t say I’ve watched any Seinfeld, but that’s just fine—Jerry’s not the focus here. Longtime readers may remember the “Patchwork” issue from two years ago, an excuse to print whatever wherever. “What’s the deal with… [blank]?” serves a similar function, one […]

New year, new term, and new horizons My New Year’s resolution was to start swimming again.  I never went competitive. I refused to do 4 am training. Instead, I was on the path to becoming a lifeguard or instructor. That path ended after I dealt with the consecutive waves of cancer and COVID. The first

HOME—by any other name I have never been homesick. I spent my entire life in one house in the suburbs of Ottawa. Learning to bike on the same road where I learnt to drive. Enclosed by the same walls I scribbled over as a child. I never got the chance to tour UofT before I

We must protect journalism and freedom of speech, on campus and beyond The Strand, as a student newspaper, intends to reflect the conversations happening on campus. Our team felt it would be disingenuous to our purpose not to have a special edition focusing on the central topic of campus dialogue and politics for the past

Dearest Strand reader, I feel that student journalism can represent the purest form of journalism itself.  We are acute case studies in local reporting. The Strand is funded by a student levy,  which allows for us to exist without the worries of attracting advertisers or giving  in to the field of rage bait. Local journalism

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