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I’ve become the parody of student journo and this is My Story
Editorial
We’re still relevant!
Looking back over the past few volumes of The Strand, one may notice a common theme among the final editorials offered by each outgoing EIC. One tends to offer a heartfelt, teary-eyed reflection of the past year, while the other talks about how we, as student journalists, are somehow Still Relevant.
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The bubbling effect
Recognizing that talking about the insularity of student politics leads to stunted engagement
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Broken Promises
Why electoral reform would be bad for Canada On February 1st, Democratic Institutions Minister, Karina Gould, announced to Canadians that the Trudeau government would no longer be pursuing electoral reform, a position that was a focal point of their 2015 election campaign. In his first throne speech following the election, Trudeau himself promised that the
The anatomy of a protest
The Strand’s editors reflect on The Women’s March from January 21st
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Kicking 2016 out the door
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Responsibility to inform
On November 8th, Americans decided to elect an individual whose campaign centred entirely on intolerance, racism, misogyny, and bigotry. Above all, white Americans decided that they were willing to ignore or embrace the intolerance that Donald Trump presented day after day. Many decided that their “economic” interests outweighed those of their fellow citizens, and that they were willing to let a man with total disregard for minorities, women, and LGBTQ+ populations hold the country’s highest office. If there was any doubt that racism was alive and well in America before this election, that doubt has since been put to rest.
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Peterson’s Transphobia—It’s Not Just Words: Free speech is not the same as hate speech
By now, everyone on the UofT campus will have heard about the comments made by Professor Jordan Peterson regarding free speech. Our Opinions Editor Shailee Koranne and Arts & Culture Editor Molly Kay spoke to Professor A.W. Peet to discuss.
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The State of the Union: Re-evaluating our relationship with the CFS
If you went on any sort of social media between October and January of last year, you most likely saw—and promptly became annoyed by—the constant posts and messages asking you to vote to amend the board structure of the University of Toronto Students’ Union. The campaign to bring the UTSU back in compliance with new
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