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.
The 140 Billion Dollar Personality Cult
The 140 Billion Dollar Personality Cult
By
Katie Pedlar
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April 14, 2021
Katie Pedlar critiques the ethics and efficiency of high budget environmentalism. How does our fascination with technology convolute the priorities of environmentalism? And how are we to resist the charms of a handsome billionaire genius who claims to know what’s best?
Why Now is the Time to Talk About Tuition
Why Now is the Time to Talk About Tuition
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Maggie Piper
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April 13, 2021
In this op-ed, Maggie Piper explains how COVID-19 has exacerbated the unaffordability crisis in post-secondary education in the province of Ontario, and how legislators and administrators alike have failed to respond to students needs. Piper asks, "Is our educational funding model prepared for the next crisis?"
The Environment is Under Attack
The Environment is Under Attack
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Robert Gibson
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March 24, 2021
Robert Gibson outlines the challenges faced by the public in recognizing issues of environmental concern in Ontario. Minister’s Zoning Orders (MZOs) in particular, he says, threaten the public’s ability to challenge new developments put forward by the province and municipalities. Additionally, Bill 245, he calls “a clear bombardment of environmental rights” as it weakens citizens’ right to appeal environmental decisions.
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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Yes, Your "Book Boyfriend" Is A Piece Of Shit
Yes, Your "Book Boyfriend" Is A Piece Of Shit
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Abbigale Kernya
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May 5, 2023
The romanticized abuse by male characters in modern-day literature is, to say the least, icky (Colleen Hoover, I am looking directly at you). Without coming across as another pretentious English major who doesn’t know how to stop acting like they’re better than everyone else, I do wholeheartedly believe that we as a collective society need to start thinking more critically about what we consume and more importantly, how we promote it.
Healing Masculinity: HBO’s The Last of Us and Male Trauma
Healing Masculinity: HBO’s The Last of Us and Male Trauma
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Julián Rubio
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March 22, 2023
If you’ve been on social media lately, or have just been following gaming and Pedro Pascal since 2013, then you’ve definitely heard of HBO’s The Last of Us by Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin — or, what is arguably the best video game adaptation up to date. The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay, follows the journey of Joel and Ellie — a stone-hearted smuggler and the girl he’s smuggling — as they travel across Apocalypse America facing mushroom monsters, raiders, and trauma along the way.