News

After the Buzzer: Double Feature

For the final issue of After the Buzzer, I want to get both sentimental, and kind of silly. The first half of this column is

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Arts and Culture

Family Movie Night Ft. Andy Samberg

I asked my mother if she watched the Oscars earlier this month. She told me she didn’t because she didn’t watch any of the movies

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Arts and Culture

FEATURE – Photography

Ever since I began taking photos, I’ve been drawn to people on the job and the work environment in general. I find that people don’t

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Creative

One for the CV

Roommate Conflicts: The Unexpected Resume Booster  Navigating roommate conflicts isn’t just about keeping the peace at home—it’s a crash course in problem-solving, communication, and negotiation,

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Creative

Tracing the Butterfly Effect: A Reflection on My Time at Innis

Time flies, doesn’t it? I can still remember showing up to Innis orientation four years ago like it was yesterday. “Showing up” is itself a

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Creative

Unsolicited advice from a sentimental graduand

There is less than a month to go before I attend my very last undergraduate lecture. With midterms and assignments and club meetings and work

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News

South American Football: Football’s Forgotten Garden of Eden

Football as a concept may have been born in the railyards of England, but it was in South America where the beautiful game was truly

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Student Life

The Doctor is In: You Should See the Other Guy

Disclaimer: the material in this article is for informational purposes only and is in no way a substitute for professional medical advice. Although Kiran’s intelligence

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Creative

What I Learned Directing Three Short Films in Toronto, and Whether I’ll Stay

Many students at Innis College fancy themselves avid movie-goers, and often filmmakers. My friends in the Cinema Studies program are huge film fans, and some

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Creative

The Truth About my Mother Tongue

Among my most vivid childhood memories are the nights I would ask my mother to tell me stories about each of my cousins as she

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Creative

The Black Coche Expanded

The Magazine The plastic protective cover of the magazine flickered under the bar’s gold fluorescent lights, as she flipped it between her fingers. It had

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Creative

When We’re Stuck

You sit behind your wooden desk, in a room with your very own bronze nameplate on the door. Do you think that you’ve made it?

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Arts and Culture

cramming + carbs ‒ the exam season survival pack

welcome back for round 3 of bianca eats…as usual!  i’ve got a good one for you today! the most special recipe for the last edition

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Arts and Culture

Jean Rollin: Poems for the Past’s Vampires

A portrait on the surreal horror director Jean Rollin  It certainly wasn’t the time to watch films during May 1968 in France – when the

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Arts and Culture

Why Dreams Aren’t Your Reality: Late Night Notes on La Boum and Misleading Nostalgia

There is an impossible sense of trepidation when it comes to remembering the blurry images of a childhood-defining film. There is a similar sense of

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Arts and Culture

Sam’s Showtime Schedule

Throughout the past three years, since the end of my first term, I have had the pleasure of writing for this paper, and the privilege

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Creative

Leaving Town

The first light of the morning sun cuts through the dust on your bedroom window and pierces your bleary, morning eyes, but you’ve been awake

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Creative

Inside my case of skin I want to breathe

There are books I’ve meant to read when the lights are on the low  that escape the dead and gone and the hurt that’s hard

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Creative

The Ultimate Hear-Me-Out List

As a lesbian, I watch most trending men pass me by. I can’t say they’re not conventionally attractive, but very rarely will I find myself

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Arts and Culture

The half-life of love is forever

Part 1: Do you remember how it felt to be young and in love? Deana Lawson’s 2009 photograph Binky and Tony Forever is a portrait

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Sports

After the Buzzer: Love of the Game

Hello! I’m Julian, one of the Herald’s Creative Directors! For the second edition of After the Buzzer, I wanted to explore the relationship between athletes,

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News

Canada’s Leadership Crisis in the Face of Trump 2.0 and Rising American Aggression

Canadian politics are, as of now, in a tremendously uncertain state of flux. Not only has our Prime Minister resigned, we are also being buffeted

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Arts and Culture

Oh, To Be Written by a Woman 

Gender Bias in Literature: The “Men Written by Women” Epidemic While it might not be as obvious as McDonald’s “girl toy” and “boy toy” options,

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Arts and Culture

Every Bridgerton Book, Ranked

You know Bridgerton. I know Bridgerton. Everyone knows Bridgerton. Combined, its three seasons (released in 2020, 2022, and 2024 respectively) have been viewed somewhere around

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Arts and Culture

Sapphic Romance: Myths and Representation in the “Lesbian Renaissance”

In today’s media, a growing queer presence can be seen across all platforms. From films and television, to books, and even youtube channels and TikTok

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Arts and Culture

The Forgotten CGI Spider-Man Show You’ve Never Seen

There’s been no shortage of Spider-Man cartoons over the years. From 1967 to the present day, we’ve gotten our fair share of the web-slinger on

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Arts and Culture

AMBITIOUS SCI-FI EPIC OR HIDDEN ROMANCE CLASSIC: MR. NOBODY’S (2009) DECISIONS

Personal reflections on the last January FFF Cinema doesn’t change anything; but it makes people understand many things. It is not the movies that will

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Arts and Culture

Successful Failure under The Breaking Ice 

燃冬 (Ran Dong) is the original Chinese name of The Breaking Ice, a 2023 Chinese-Singaporean film directed by Anthony Chen and starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu

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Arts and Culture

Sam’s Showtime Schedule

letterboxd.com/unhingederanged Sure, it may be a time when affection and admiration are in the air and the world may seem to revolve around romance. However,

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Creative

Cinema Studies Student Requests Bereavement Leave After David Lynch’s Passing

The recent passing of David Lynch has affected members of our community in different ways. Some have posted a tribute on Instagram and then moved

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Arts and Culture

Megalopolis – Don’t Let the Now Destroy the Forever 

On October 19, 2024, I saw Megalopolis in theatres for the third time. My friend from high school had come to see the movie in

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Creative

Walls

Don’t you know that I love you. I wish I could show it. I wish my voice didn’t fall flat. It’s hard for you to

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Poem

Celine, Come Out and Have a Cup of Coffee Together Today, I’m Going Back to Los Angeles Tomorrow

Dear Celine, I received a text a while ago which I believe was a plea from a lover, I trust you know who, and I

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Creative

A Field (of War)

I see here now, standing in the midst of birch and gravelled roads a field of war; a battle lost fought long before my time. 

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Playlist

Wanting and Waiting – Playlist

The funny thing about love is how much time is spent looking in instead of experiencing it. As much as love is constructed by shared

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Recipes

bianca eats…as usual: read this if you’re too broke to go out for valentine’s day, whether that be from lack of money or love

welcome back to bianca eats… as usual! your most favourite column where i trade my remaining sanity for your entertainment! this time, we’re tackling valentine’s

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Creative

The Doctor Is In

Love is in the air, and as your (totally qualified) doctor, I am obliged to warn you about the myriad of infections and inconveniences that

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Student Life

Back Campus, Healing

in 2013, the university of toronto paid 9.5 million dollars / for a green carpet rolled over // Grass Part 1: Grass Loafe with me

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Creative

The Herald’s Got Mail!

to: the Innis Herald from: an obsessive reader with an unfortunately basic name subject: Behold! a Love Letter. (because the Herald too deserves a happy

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Blog

Politics

The Notorious RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has held many titles over the course of her life. Supreme Court Justice. Law student. Professor. Mother. Wife. Daughter. But perhaps her most significant title that still resonates with us today is that of feminist icon. Ginsburg was a pioneer for gender equality, a trailblazer for equal rights, spending a majority of her life fighting for women everywhere.

Opinion

What the COVID-19 era has meant for refugees around the globe

To say that this year has not been easy would be an understatement. The spread of COVID-19 has hung a shadow of uncertainty over the future, forcing us to acclimatize to a lonelier standard of living. Being isolated from friends and family is certainly a challenge, but at least in the face of this illness, Canadians who develop symptoms can rely on the country’s healthcare procedures for their diagnoses and treatment. Globally, however, not everyone has been so fortunate.

Playlist

on/offline

he pandemic has both made the virtual world our everyday reality and given us the opportunity to connect with our local environments. These are songs with themes of our natural world and songs that tap into the hyperreal. This playlist is about the tug of war between wanting to drop off the face of the earth and run away to the woods and embracing internet culture to the fullest.

Student Life

Life After Undergrad

There is no definite answer to the question, “What is life like after graduation?” because each response is unique to the responder. And because as much as freedom and possibilities have opened up for students when attending university, more opportunities and challenges will find us afterwards.

Science

Compassionate Sustainability

Nearly the entire population of Canada and most of the world has social media of some sort or follows a news outlet and inevitably comes across climate issues like wildfires, hurricanes, pollution, extinction, and so on. Awareness is at an all-time high, but sometimes it feels like empathy for the environment is nonexistent, extinct like the many species that suffered from toxic human habits.

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