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Who gets to dictate new speech?
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Fashion can be a funny thing. Some people seem able to spot style trends and are the earliest adopters of what is new. Others wait until they see influential people around them get into...
How BookTube influences reading choices
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Every new year, I set a reading goal for myself and spend the rest of the year trying to live up to January Lakshmi’s expectations. As a regular BookTube and Bookstagram consumer, my choices...
A race-conscious critique of The Lord of the Rings films
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Over the break I had a movie marathon of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films. I ended up watching the franchise four times within a week, and through every viewing I was...
Let’s abolish the Senate already
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Canada is technically a constitutional monarchy, but the king is more like a figurehead, and really, is not that important in the grand scheme of things.
Rather, Canada, for all intents and purposes, is a...
The dangers of exaggeration in the news
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As a linguistics graduate and former student journalist who now works in communications, I am well aware of the power of words. It seems that, despite literally working with words as a profession, many...
Palestine Teach-In: In our own words
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We write as faculty who are part of the Palestine Teach-In Collective. We seek to address bad-faith criticisms and attempts to cancel our event, “Palestine and Genocide: Reflections on Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Decolonization,”...
Make time for community and culture over the holidays
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My favourite part of the holiday season as a student is the break we are finally rewarded with after the fall semester’s constant bombardment of work.
During the break, there are always many fun festivities....







