Combatting Pandemic Apathy
As the meme goes, “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.” There are roughly three major responses to the current world pandemic …
Opinion
The Bowlcut: The Perfect Pet on a Student Budget
So, you’re in university. You’re living on your own for the first time, or the second time, or you’ve been on your own for a while now. The point is, …
What is a University Now?
It’s a commonplace, but an important one, that what the university is is always contested and complicated, and what any university is in any particular time and place is a …
Queerlines: Being Openly Queer and Trans in Peterborough
Content warning: This article discusses homophobic and transphobic behaviour, including slurs. I am someone who grew up in rural town Ontario. You know, like Letterkenny. I knew I wasn’t straight …
Trent Apiary: Where We Came From and Where We Are Going
Trent Apiary started about seven years ago in 2013, as the passion project of a Trent student named Whitney Lake. Her vision was to build a honeybee project at Trent …
Unfinished Business: The Status of Women Worldwide
My long life in feminism comes to a kind of culmination this year, 2020. It is the 25th anniversary of the great UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, …
Examining The Examiner
“”we’re all two or three bad decisions away From becoming the ones that we fear and pity” – AJJ, “People II: Still Peoplin’?” One week ago, The Peterborough Examiner published …
On Being a Student in a City with a Housing Crisis
Ruth Glass, the British-German Sociologist, once wrote that the city was “too vast, too complex, too contrary and too moody” to be known entirely. Despite its size, I like to …
Citizens Still Have BWXT Safety Concerns
Playground uranium exposure “relatively safe” says Peterborough Medical Officer of Health. Between March 4 to 6, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will hold a hearing at the Holiday Inn to …
Is Peterborough the Right Place to Make Nuclear Fuel?
In early March, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) will hold public hearings in Toronto and Peterborough, about the renewal of BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada’s operating licence. The CNSC regulates …