The Republican Party introduced the Continuing Appropriations Resolution of 2016 in early September, hoping to block government funding of Planned Parenthood for one year. Although the bill never made it past the Republican-controlled Senate, failing by a final vote of 47-52, debate over the organization continues. Controversy around Planned Parenthood first began to escalate in […]
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Twenty-two years ago this October, Joe Carter lined a walk-off homerun in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series to secure the Toronto Blue Jays’ second straight championship. For 22 years, that was the last taste of playoff baseball that Toronto had experienced. But now, after many years of frustration and failure, Canada’s only major
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The voting period for VUSAC Councillor positions ended Friday night at 11:59, with unofficial results set to be ratified after the appeals period ends Saturday night.
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On Friday, a group of students at Victoria University voted on behalf of the VCU to endorse Khrystyna Zhuk’s UTSU Board of Directors restructuring proposal.
Gabriela Stafford, a third-year student at Vic, has just finished an extremely successful season with the UofT Varsity Blues. The Strand sat down with her to discuss her goals, tips, and some of her favourite running spots on campus!
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For some Victorians, the end of the winter semester didn’t mean much more than switching to shorts on the morning trek to campus. While most of us were cottaging, camp counselling, or working whatever menial job we were able to get, there have been many student organizations hard at work in the summer months inside the Goldring Student Centre.
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For those of you who haven’t noticed that there’s a federal election going on: what kind of rock are you living under, and where can I get one like it? For everyone else, the constant bombardment of information from every possible medium makes it difficult to process what goes into an election campaign, leading to cynicism and apathy.
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