Opinion

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Screen & Souls
By
Madison Mäe Adsetts
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November 11, 2025
A plea for wonder in a world that has mistaken data for divinity.
The Death of the Filler Episode
By
Indigo Moran
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October 16, 2025
The disappearance of dead-end plots is symptomatic of a new age of TV writing.
To All Those Who Are Neutral In Today’s Holocaust
To All Those Who Are Neutral In Today’s Holocaust
By
Afaf Ghazi
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October 30, 2023
If you have ever wondered how the world allowed the Holocaust to happen, pay close attention to the silence today. The State of Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, having killed about 5,791 Palestinians, displacing a further 1.4 million Palestinians, and bombing hospitals, bakeries and places of worship.
My Rental Breakdown: A Reflection on Navigating Peterborough’s Housing Crisis as a Clueless Tenant
My Rental Breakdown: A Reflection on Navigating Peterborough’s Housing Crisis as a Clueless Tenant
By
Isla Gole
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June 23, 2023
Summer Journalist Isla Gole hits the ground running in her first op-ed recounting five years' worth of rental anecdotes in a Peterborough folktale with the moral: tenants beware!
How to Write Better, Faster, and More 
How to Write Better, Faster, and More 
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Evan Robins
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June 7, 2023
Coordinating Editor Evan Robins offers a witty and winding cornucopia's worth of writing advice for those seeking professional advice on the improvement of their craft. Read on for all sorts of insights the more respectable journalists won't tell you!
Gentrifying the Heart (or On Polyamory, Power, and Who Gets to Be Really Radical in Peterborough)
Gentrifying the Heart (or On Polyamory, Power, and Who Gets to Be Really Radical in Peterborough)
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Marisol Campos-Navarrete
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August 19, 2025
What does a political economy of polyamory look like?
Promises and Precarity: How Canadian Policy and Trent's Budget Strategy Exploit International Students
Promises and Precarity: How Canadian Policy and Trent's Budget Strategy Exploit International Students
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Emma Rivero-Uribe
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August 19, 2025
An examination of how Canadian immigration policy and Trent University’s budget strategy place international students in financially and legally precarious positions
U.S. Isolation and the Coalition of the Willing
U.S. Isolation and the Coalition of the Willing
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J.A. Forrester
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March 1, 2025
"America First" is the present refrain of the dogmatic American right wing, but from where exactly did this mantra arise? James Forrester details a history of U.S. exceptionalism which has seen the country further its own agenda while making the rest of the world pay.
Innocence Abroad ...The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming!
Innocence Abroad ...The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming!
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J.A. Forrester
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February 13, 2025
A simple question: Is the United States a global empire in the colonial tradition?
4 Years Left: The World Climate Clock and the Recognition of Indigenous Land Sovereignty
4 Years Left: The World Climate Clock and the Recognition of Indigenous Land Sovereignty
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Ciara Richardson
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February 10, 2025
Ciara Richardson examines the World Climate Clock initiative and its efforts to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change before it's too late, specifically the project's investment in Indigenous Land Sovereignty as a means to combating the climate crisis.
You Are Not "Just A Girl." Stop Saying That
You Are Not "Just A Girl." Stop Saying That
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Louanne Morin
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January 23, 2025
Are you coquette? Do you know girl math? Do you subscribe to the philosophy of care ethics? From social media to academia, Louanne Morin details the ongoing antifeminist retrenchment.
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The Case for Divestment
The Case for Divestment
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Irene Suvillaga
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January 11, 2022
As the ramifications of climate change become ever more present, and the direct link between fossil fuels industries and global warming become ever more clear, Trent continues to finance the very same industry that in the 1980s privately predicted the apocalyptic consequences of oil and its emissions. Irene Suvillaga dives into the principles of divestment and its impact, fossil fuel companies’ influence on academia and Trent's reluctance to implement this action.
Trent Bleeds Oil, Not 'Green'
Trent Bleeds Oil, Not 'Green'
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Alyssa Scanga
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November 1, 2021
Alyssa Scanga makes a case for Trent to divest from fossil fuels. Alyssa came to Trent thinking it was a school that shared her green ideals, but upon learning about the Board of Governors decision to forgo divestment in 2015, she realised this was not so. Now more than ever, she says, Trent has a duty to affect this huge change.