Opinion

Op-Eds

S.H.A.R.E. the Health
By
Keanna Brown
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February 13, 2026
While the film only lasted thirteen minutes, S.H.A.R.E. led me to re-evaluate my own feminist ways.
Who Told You to Think Like That?
By
Madison Mäe Adsetts
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January 5, 2026
How institutions script our voices, silence our instincts, and shape the questions we’re allowed to ask.
Why aren’t we talking about China?
Why aren’t we talking about China?
By
Connor Belbin
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October 8, 2021
In this op-ed, Connor Belbin explains why he thinks Canadians ought to be more concerned over China's human rights abuses, as Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig re-adjust to normal life after three years in a Chinese prison..
Justin Trudeau is Executing an Ideological Purge in the Federal Bureaucracy
Justin Trudeau is Executing an Ideological Purge in the Federal Bureaucracy
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L. A. Seneca
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September 29, 2021
Re-elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced last week that his Liberal government will require COVID-19 vaccinations throughout the federal service and this anonymous contributor to Arthur is on-board. Read more to find out why L.A. Seneca thinks this public health measure is coming at the right time.
With Your Heart and Your Head: A More Strategic Vote
With Your Heart and Your Head: A More Strategic Vote
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Danny Taro
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September 16, 2021
In this op-ed, Danny Taro breaks down his strategy of voting for the NDP and encourages those aligned with the party to stay true to their political identity.
Screen & Souls
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
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.
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)
By
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?
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4chan With a Bloomberg Terminal
4chan With a Bloomberg Terminal
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Alex Purdye
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February 1, 2021
In a much needed act of public service, Alex Purdye takes readers through the events unfolding in the international casino that many call the stock market. Have you been confused about recent news citing a “reddit-fuelled take-over” of the market? Don’t have any idea what a “short” is, not to mention a “short squeeze”? Want to know more about GME, ‘hedgies’, and all the wall street bad boys out there losing money? Though the story isn’t as hopeful, nor as simple as he’d like, Purdye can be your guide.
More Poison From the Plant
More Poison From the Plant
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Zach Ruiter
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January 14, 2021
In the final days of 2020, BWXT received an extended licence to intensify current operations through pelleting. Zach Ruiter contextualizes this new development in a longstanding struggle between community members and this corporation.