Opinions

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  It’s Time We Stop Hating On Social Media Influencers

  Exploring the Roots of Our Resentment Toward Social Media Influencers

  Jessica Barile — Published June 3, 2019 | Comments

  No one is paying us six figures to slap on a bikini and hold up a jar of gummy bears.

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  Sexiness and The Self: Being Yourself is Attractive

  How Your Body Positivity Can Own Fashion Trends

  Ana Lucia Londono Flores — Published May 6, 2019 | Comments

  Summer is about to arrive and some of us aren’t quite ready to let go of the comfort of our hoodies and sweats.

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  The STM Inspectors Should Be Held Accountable

  Recent Events Show They Need To Be Heavily Scrutinized

  Maxime Cadotte — Published April 21, 2019 | Comments

  It’s also concerning how little the everyday happenings of STM inspectors are scrutinized.
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  Social Media: A New Way to Craft the Popular Mind

  What a 19th Century Writer Taught Me About Today’s Social Media

  Olivier Laurin — Published April 12, 2019 | Comments

  Social media is fertile breeding ground for the development of a new crowd psychology.

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  Don’t @ Me: Loud and Proud (Keyboards, That Is)

  Listen, Unless You Buy Me a Typewriter, This Is the Closest I Can Get to a Dream

  Olivier Cadotte — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  When I as a kid, I always imagined being a writer as sitting in a low light office, hunched over a typewriter while writing out masterpiece after masterpiece.

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  Don’t @ Me: Nice and Quiet Is How I Like It (Keyboards, That Is)

  Loud Keyboards Are Horrible and Using Them Makes You a Bad Person

  Elias Grigoriadis — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  On the other side of this pointless debate are the monsters who like having their keyboards make noise.

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  Editorial: Why We’re Endorsing RiZe

  Last Year Our Endorsement Was Contested, But Endorsements Are a General Practice

  The Link — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  We stand by our right as a publication to make endorsements when our team reaches a consensus.

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  Editorial: The Importance of Recognizing and Compensating All Forms of Labour

  The Link — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  When considering labour, it’s important to look at its ramifications.

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  Quebec’s Student Movements: A History

  A People’s History of Canada Column

  Erika Morris — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  Protesters were met with strong police retaliation, and even tourists and children were effected by the pepper sprayed while exiting restaurants on Ste. Catherine. St.

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  Don’t @ Me: I’m Sick of Seeing ‘The Office’ Quotes in Dating Apps

  “‘You Miss 100% of The Shots You Don’t Take. —Wayne Gretzky’ —Michael Scott’’ —Everyone on Tinder

  Maggie Morris — Published April 2, 2019 | Comments

  I saw so many references to The Office on guys’ profiles that I started to wonder if it was some kind of unwritten rule that they must mention it.