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Trying harder isn’t the problem: Why we need to change the narrative around unemployment in the lasting wake of COVID-19
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Trying harder isn’t the problem: Why we need to change the narrative around unemployment in the lasting wake of COVID-19

“Maybe you just need to try harder.”  That’s what someone said to me after I told them about my struggle to find a good job. To their credit, this was said with no malice, and they were quick to apologize once they realized how it sounded. Still, the quick

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Boo hoo, Donald! We all knew this would happen
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Boo hoo, Donald! We all knew this would happen

U.S economic isolation is becoming a reality — and Trump doesn’t seem to be helping himself. I am a fierce patriot. Even though I happen to be a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, my allegiance to Canada has never faltered. And that’s why I can

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The value of the Arts cannot be discounted
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The value of the Arts cannot be discounted

Editorial: In the defence of arts I recently had a conversation with a couple friends in the engineering school. Although it started off as a casual conversation about coursework and relative “difficulty,” it quickly switched to a familiar topic: which degrees are “useful”, and which ones are not.  Discourse around

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The rising costs of “protecting your peace”
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The rising costs of “protecting your peace”

Gen Z is the loneliest generation ever, despite the fact that our world is more connected than ever before, and gratification has never been more instantaneous. Why then are young people feeling so alone, and how can we fix it? Let me cut straight to the point. Your mom was

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Peace, democracy and the cost of intervention in Venezuela
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Peace, democracy and the cost of intervention in Venezuela

What does peace look like when it arrives in the form of sanctions and soldiers? In Venezuela the United States (U.S.) says it is defending democracy. Yet the reality happening on the country tells a far more complicated story about power sovereignty and who gets to decide a nation’

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English degrees: Where you learn all the workforce skills you need and more
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English degrees: Where you learn all the workforce skills you need and more

While many people see an English degree as simply reading, there is so much more to it than that, and the things learned are invaluable to one’s future. When I was a kid, my answer to the question, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” was

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Some of you have never worked on your communication skills (and it shows)
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Some of you have never worked on your communication skills (and it shows)

Alright, I may be biased in this opinion because I am, in fact, a Communications and Media Studies major, but I’ve noticed an alarming trend in classmates outside the realm of communications or media: most of them don’t know how to communicate properly.  Now, I’m not saying

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ICE offices in Canada: When does America’s problem become ours?
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ICE offices in Canada: When does America’s problem become ours?

The United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agency has been the focal point of controversy and concern within the U.S. as thousands of Americans are detained, injured or killed. Aside from our empathetic human nature, those of us outside of the U.S. can’t help but wonder

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Did you hear what happened at the Campus Food Bank?
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Did you hear what happened at the Campus Food Bank?

Nothing, that’s what! And that’s the problem. Well… it’s not nothing, but it’s less something than it should be. Since I began volunteering at our Students' Union Campus Food Bank, short as that time has been, I’ve realized there isn’t nearly as much

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Why you need to abandon cringe culture
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Why you need to abandon cringe culture

Have you ever seen something so awkward that you had to step away, turn off the video or scroll past it? Or maybe you stuck around and laughed at the video, mocking the person within it alongside fellow viewers in the comments?  Did you ever think about why that was

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A new era for the Gauntlet

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