Out of all my personal stories, none might be less believable than my path to becoming a “academic investigative journalist”, a term I coined as a result of my academic approach to investigative journalism, which often focuses on public policy matters. What began from a desire to improve my writing and to get into a… Read more »
The Voice Magazine recently had a chance to chat with Josh Flis, a student from Barrie, Ontario, who acknowledged that Barrie is “the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg people.” Josh is “currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Psychology,” with an “objective, depending on … academic performance, is to graduate in 2025… Read more »
Debating with others can be fun or infuriating or a bit of both; the important thing, academically, is to keep our minds open to new evidence and ideas. There are few, if any, theories not worth investigating if we’re worth our academic salt. Discourse Theory applies when we consider the rightness and wrongness of various… Read more »
Does anyone miss the comedic days of the world’s biggest influencers preaching about crypto and the digital world, and making suggestions like how it was possible for people to monetize everyday receipts by transforming them into “non-fungible tokens” or how people could create and sell their own “whatever”-coins? What about the ridiculousness of seeing the… Read more »
A quick reminder that there will be no Voice Magazine next week, but those of you on the brick-and-mortar schedule are likely knee-deep in exams right now, and everybody else is likely trying to plough through their course work so that they won’t have to worry so much once summer hits. Meanwhile, we’ll be back… Read more »
The freedom to wallow incessantly in inspirational memes and gratitude lists, not to mention the peaks and valleys of our course material, came from war. It’s sad, and true, and easy to forget. Yet, it doesn’t take a history major to know that a real fascist regime in Ottawa probably would not deign to fund… Read more »
While the meeting on October 20th was shorter than usual, it was certainly an interesting and emotional meeting. The meeting started out as usual, with President Karen Fletcher running through the usual business of attendance, agenda, and previous minutes. Changing Positions AUSU’s position policies manual was up for review and being updated; Vice President of… Read more »
Lake driftwood sometimes floats vertically, all submerged but the tip. Such a protuberance can also be the head of a turtle who, upon hearing footfalls, leaps gracelessly off its basking log and into the safety of lake water. Fleeting from rest to action in a moment, belying their sloth-like reputation, these creatures then camouflage themselves… Read more »
Everyone is likely to interact with lawyers at some point in their life, and those interactions guarantee to be some of the costliest if they are not handled correctly. It is also one of the professions that is commonly referenced as being full of dishonest interactions. Lawyers have a reputation for being indirect and for… Read more »
Nearly two years of this pandemic have come and gone and, despite what anyone says (expert or not), no one knows with certainty when this will eventually end. What we do know is that everyone’s finances have been affected—whether due to last year’s mass layoffs, supply chain disruptions, or rising inflation rates—no one has been… Read more »