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.
Trent Bleeds Oil, Not 'Green'
Trent Bleeds Oil, Not 'Green'
By
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.
Anti-Homeless Rhetoric at City Hall and the Wolfe Street Shelter
Anti-Homeless Rhetoric at City Hall and the Wolfe Street Shelter
By
Robert Gibson
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October 18, 2021
Robert Gibson unpacks the recent proposal at City Council to reduce Wolfe Street Emergency Shelter's hours from 24 hours 7 days a week to 12 hours. The shelter, which has only been in operation since late last year, provides essential services to many unhoused community members. Housing advocates, researchers and Peterborough residents alike have pushed back against the proposal. This discussion will continue at October 18’s General Committee meeting and October 25, where citizens can have their say.
What’s the Deal With Trent’s Party Life?
What’s the Deal With Trent’s Party Life?
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Evan Robins
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October 18, 2021
Following (another) Trent student party making local headlines Evan Robins wonders whether they might be gaining a reputation as a party school. In this Op-Ed she examines the history of parties during the last two years of the pandemic and explores how this will affect the student body and Trent as an institution.
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!
By
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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Yes, Your "Book Boyfriend" Is A Piece Of Shit
Yes, Your "Book Boyfriend" Is A Piece Of Shit
By
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
By
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.