Embracing reusable water bottles emerged as a commendable eco-conscious consumer trend during the mid-2000s, particularly among university students. Yet in today’s digital age, reusable water bottles are morphing into trendy status symbols.

Before their exit from this year’s AMS executive election, Team JNN was running uncontested. Their campaign sparked a counter crusade—a no-vote campaign led by Allison Mei, Noor Ghunaim, Molly McGill, all ArtSci ’24, and Sophie Sterling, ArtSci ’25.

As we near International Women’s Day on March 8, it’s important to take a moment to consider the impact activism for women’s rights has had—and to emphasize its ongoing necessity.

Baseball should give casual fans more to cheer for. Stolen bases are a good start, but marketing the stories of those playing the game is the next necessary leap.

Publicly prioritizing the agency of a clump of cells over that of a grown person is nothing short of shameful.

Whoever said “nice guys finish last” was wrong.

Queen’s students aren’t engaging with their student government because they don’t know how it serves them.

With the constant barrage of headlines and bumbling public interviews with top administration, it would be easy to think Queen’s is careening to the bottom of rankings because of its budget crisis.

From radio to Spotify premium, leftovers to Uber Eats, printing out Google maps to Siri announcing directions—everything we want is now at the tip of our fingers, and I’m not convinced it’s good for us.

It’s difficult to imagine Dillon Dubé’s “mental health” leave is anything but a cowardly coverup.

Scientifically and socially, Canada isn’t ready to expand medically assisted death to those whose only underlying condition for it is mental illness.

Though I’m not against drinking, I don’t feel the need to do it every weekend, but that doesn’t preclude me from wanting to go out and have fun with my friends. While establishments serving alcohol don’t need to be completely sober places, more people should understand it’s possible to be sober within them.

In the midst of this highly disputed geopolitical landscape, my history degree holds greater significance than ever before.

Since becoming aware of issues like food and housing insecurity, and the financial troubles many teachers, researchers, and caregivers face daily, I’ve had trouble comprehending why we, as a society, are complacent in paying some people more money than most will see in their lifetime, just to throw or catch a ball, or to simply entertain us.

Sexual harassment mustn’t go unpunished, no matter who perpetrated it. It’s difficult not to suspect those politicians opposing Bill 5 of having personal reasons for doing so, covering for themselves and their powerful cohorts so they don’t lose their jobs.

Being pro-life is about protecting innocent babies, not controlling grown adults.

Jordan Peterson shouldn’t be allowed access to patients when the risk of him discriminating against them (explicitly or otherwise) remains so present, nor should he be able to lean on his certification as a psychologist to validate the harmful rhetoric he spews over the internet.

Stereotypically feminine activities and aesthetics in video games can lead to wonderful art if we unlearn femmephobia.

As artists from non-wealthy backgrounds disappear, so does the richness of our artistic landscape.

A paper published in the University of Toronto’s journal Canadian Public Policy in Dec. 2023 examined a decade of data from 20 Canadian municipalities and found no relationship between police spending and crime rates.