Student Life

Toward A New Chapter for Innis College

An Update on the Innis Renewal and Expansion ProjectIf you have, at any point in the past two years, walked past the intersection of St

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Reviews

Megadeth Counts Down to Their Extinction

Megadeth (2026) Album Review In the unforgettably quirky music video for “Sweating Bullets,” Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine looks at himself in the mirror in an

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Reviews

Music All The Time. Harry Styles, Occasionally. 

Wednesday, January 21, a cold and snowy day in Toronto. Despite the weather, a line began forming outside the record store Sonic Boom at around

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Arts and Culture

After the Last Bow: The Long Afterlife of a Designer’s Vision

Valentino’s Passing: A Moment of Reflection With the passing of Valentino Garavani, the fashion world pauses not just to mourn a designer, but to reckon

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Arts and Culture

Josh Safdie Dreams Big and Loves Greater with MARTY SUPREME 

Defying the American Dream, the writer-director’s ambitious sports drama blossoms into a coming-of-age love letter to youth.   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Let’s dance in

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Arts and Culture

2026 Awards Season Guide / Five Takeaways from the 2026 Oscar Nominations

From singing vampires to ping pong matches, 2025 was a wild year for cinema, and this awards season has been just as full of twists

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Arts and Culture

All the Songs in the World: The Definitive Songs of the James Bond Eras

Spires, Ethan Spires Over the last seven decades and across over twenty feature films, no other spy has captivated culture as much as Bond, James

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Arts and Culture

It Won’t Pass: 10 Years of Fleabag

The year 2026 marks 10 years since Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s dramedy Fleabag (2016) aired on our TVs, and I still can’t get enough of it. Adapted

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Arts and Culture

Is Sisyphus Really Happy?

I know I must keep going. I have no memory of how I ended up here and no idea what lies on top of the

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Student Life

Love on Clearance—or a New Dating Era?

To some people, going on dating apps is an act of desperation—a last resort for finding love because they are incapable of doing so “organically.”

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Student Life

A manifesto on askastudent, in the words of aska themselves

Have you ever found yourself contemplating the age-old question of what the differences between ArtSci’s colleges are? Or what on Earth “12 distinct credits” means?

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Arts and Culture

Spend Your Valentine’s Day with a Film

Love when the World is Burning: Fremont (2023) Fremont understands the specific loneliness of being single while carrying such heavy grief. Donya is a 20-something

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Student Life

Big Round Tables: Dining at Bao Restaurant Chinatown

When I flew across the country from Calgary to Toronto, I arrived with no friends or family here, no community. Well, except, of course, for

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News

In Memory of Sepehr Ebrahimi

The first month of 2026 has been uniquely unbearable for the Iranian community, both in the worldwide diaspora and in Iran itself. What began as

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Creative

The 121st World Series

The last time the Blue Jays went all the way was in 1993, thirty-two years ago. The last time the Blue Jays went to the

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Student Life

What do Rare Books, D&D, and Innis Have in Common? Meet Katie Middleton, the College’s New Librarian!

Nestled in the heart of Innis College’s brick-red building, on the second floor of the East wing, sits the humble yet mighty Innis College Library.

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Arts and Culture

Exploring the Definers in Five Minutes Between Lion and Man

Warning: Please note that this article contains spoilers for those who have not watched Five Minutes Between Lion and Man.  Unfortunately, my dreams of becoming

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Arts and Culture

Ava: The Secret Conversations

Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a line of theatre-goers queued up for the stage adaptation of one of my favourite Hollywood autobiographies. Elizabeth

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Arts and Culture

Fashion: Whose Vision Is It Anyway?

“This isn’t my Balenciaga, where’s Demna?” someone commented on the livestream as the lights went down on the first Balenciaga Collection by Pierpaolo Piccioli. But

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Arts and Culture

Sam Gellaitry Stuns With Auditory Magic On ‘Anywhere Here Is Perfect’

Layering past with present to produce the future: who knew time-travel could be this catchy? Are you a 20-something-year-old? Active social media user? Maybe an

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Arts and Culture

Movember Diaries

Floating in a bottle in an overflowing sink in the Innis College men’s bathroom was a sealed bottle with some rolled up paper inside. Once

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Student Life

What to Read when you don’t want to Read

An English Major’s guide to reading when you are tired and times are trying Lately I’ve found myself lacking any desire to read for pleasure,

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Arts and Culture

Filmmaking as a Student: Sophie Zhang on Her Debut Short and U of T’s Creative Networks

Sophie Zhang is a second-year Cinema Studies and Philosophy student. Her first film, Song of the Slaughterhouse, premiered at the 2025 Buffalo International Film Festival.

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Arts and Culture

Top Ten Films of 2025

If you read the Herald, you know we love a good dose of democracy. That’s why we’ve turned to YOU to vote for your favourite

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Arts and Culture

Why “Arnold’s Christmas” Remains an Untouched Childhood Gem

“Arnold’s Christmas” may not only be the saddest episode of Hey Arnold!, but also the best episode, period. It is a nostalgic, dream-like experience that

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Arts and Culture

Frankenstein’s Re-assembly: A Physical Resurrection of Life Through Spirit

If any noun could define humanity, perhaps insanity is the most accurate. Love, hate, happiness, pain, and loss — life is incomplete without one or

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Student Life

On Air, On Campus, Balancing Student life and Creative Pursuit

For many students at U of T, university life is defined by schedules, deadlines, and an almost constant awareness of how much there is to

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Satire

THE THIRST: AN INNIS WATER FOUNTAIN CRITIQUE

A personal beef with the infamous ground floor water fountain that might concern you too Our human bodies are always in need of something, such

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Creative

I Don’t Care That My Parents Divorced

And I Sort of Wish I Did The trope of divorced parents has become almost banal, to the point that I think the sensation of

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Creative

prairies 

fiddling hair, like reeds bent to a hum. pine groves split open into Monday; sunlight combs the needles clean. the day still opening, blue after

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Creative

Monoprints and Other Inheritances

My grandmother is full of stories. She can speak endlessly about raising my dad and his brothers, the books she has read, bird sightings, recent

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Personal Essays

BEST BITES OF 2025 

Ten dishes that genuinely had me speechless, an extremely rare feat – considering how dramatic I am about my food. From the GTA to Delhi

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