What is it, then, between us?
A personal reflection on why narrative matters to me One of the most poignant lessons I learned came in a second-year English seminar. While we studied a few 18th and 19th century American authors, it...
View ArticleThe state of cable television
How ratings have trumped quality With the emergence of Netflix and other streaming services, having cable in your household is becoming less and less necessary. Netflix gives the viewer an opportunity...
View ArticleThe benefits of growing up with pets
For many young children growing up, living with a pet was the ultimate dream. Having something to play with and cuddle with all the time is the perfect solution to those long and boring days and nights...
View Article“The Kids Are Alright”
When I first began my undergraduate degree, I wanted to be a teacher. I had set my sights on teacher’s college when I was 16, and I continued that goal into my first year at the University of Guelph. I...
View ArticleAt the CSA: Sept. 23, 2015
My name is Sameer Chhabra, and I’m The Ontarion’s news editor for the 2015-2016 year. I’d like to begin this week’s editorial by explaining how the paper usually goes about printing editorials....
View ArticleWhy we all need to experience failure
I think failure is good for us as individuals. As a generation that received participant ribbons and trophies for everyone on the house-league soccer team, I think a lot of effort went into making sure...
View ArticleWe live in the Golden Age of Entertainment
What am I supposed to like? What am I allowed to like? What media should I consume? I don’t mean this from a purely cultural or social perspective. It’s true, I’m young, I’m male, I’m well-educated—or...
View ArticlePodcasts and storytelling: Serial
Earlier in the month, my good friend and I took a trip to Frontenac Provincial Park for a weekend. During the four hour car ride, with a lack of data on our phones and no CD’s prepared for the trip, my...
View ArticleWomen in politics and the media
It’s no secret that women are exploited by the media. With the hype surrounding the Federal Election, and the coverage of America’s next Presidential Election, I started thinking about the ways in...
View ArticleWords creep at this petty pace
Of all of the possible reasons to waste a lifetime on words, the most important is the recognition that most of human communication—indeed, communication of any kind—relies on the lack of words. When...
View ArticleRelationships of choice
I’m one of those people who loves quotes. I’m not talking about the syrupy, over-romanticized kind of generic quotes that I’m pretty sure Marilyn Monroe did not say, but that feeling of recognition...
View ArticleThe class clown is in
I wasn’t always as full of myself as I am now. A better way of putting it may be I haven’t always loved myself so unironically, or I haven’t always been so supportive and forgiving of myself. In my...
View ArticleAt the CSA: Nov. 18, 2015
The CSA board of directors held the final official meeting of the fall 2015 semester, on Nov. 18, 2015. Chaired by Joshua Ofori-Darko, the meeting began with land acknowledgements from two...
View ArticleDate yourself first
Moving through high school, I was almost always in a relationship. I often jumped from one relationship to the next, only staying single for a short period of time. At the start of my third year of...
View ArticleIf at first you don’t succeed, fail and fail again
Allow me to express that, when I first learned of the issue, I was under the distinct impression that it only occurred in iPhones and other Apple mobile devices. I’m referring to, of course, the...
View ArticleFinding truth in today’s journalistic landscape
Challenging both facts and opinions The journalism industry seems like it’s been in constant flux over the past two decades. Major news organizations in North America have had to shutter their...
View ArticleThe meaning of multiculturalism in troubling times
We are all the problem In light of Donald Trump’s presidency and the increase in hate crimes in Canada, I feel a conflict in my gut; it is both a gnawing need to address the state of things and a...
View ArticleLife within and without higher education
Thinking outside the BA box “The end is nigh,” WebAdvisor informed me when its automatic email asked me if I wanted to graduate. In my final semester at the university, I’m just now coming to terms...
View ArticleTrump’s hypocritical war against the media
Last night in Sweden… In Canada, freedom of speech and the right to a free press are entrenched in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the United States, these same rights are guaranteed by the...
View ArticleIn pictures: Growing up on the Bridgeman farm
The family farmhouse, a place that the Bridgemans would call home. My sister was actually born in the living room, which blows my mind to this day. Once a year, my dad and me would collect the walnuts...
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