University comes with enough challenges on its own, especially for students with chronic illnesses. Academic accommodations are meant to ease some of those challenges, yet at Queen’s, the system meant to support these students often creates more barriers.
On Oct. 29, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned a ban barring the Russian Federation from competing in international ice hockey competition, which was originally enacted back in 2022 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
If you sat out the last election because every party disappointed you, one ballot seemed meaningless, or abstaining felt like a protest, I have one question: what did you expect your absence to change?
True crime is a nonfiction genre that recounts the stories of real crimes, real perpetrators, and real victims. Despite this mainstream fixation’s online popularity and seemingly innocuous nature, true crime has an ethical dilemma that cuts deeper than the spectacle of violence.
As the cost of living becomes more expensive, third spaces are becoming less accessible.
Go to university, earn a degree, find an entry-level job, and work your way up. For decades, students have been told by teachers, parents, and peers that university was the safest pathway to a stable a life.
To be a true sports fan means to be emotionally invested in adults playing kids games. It requires standing behind your team in success and failure, but most of all, it demands that you care. However, that same level of care isn’t reciprocated towards one group of fans: women.
Canada is in a defining political moment. There have been major shifts in economic, climate, and immigration policy, as well as in Canada’s relationship with the United States.
In North America, we don’t do enough to fulfill our civic duty to protest.
TikTok has ruined the music industry and modern music
With declining attention spans, reading — regardless of the genre — should be celebrated, not criticized.
Hospitals cease to run without nursing staff, so why is it that they are nearly always critically understaffed to the point of burnout?
With the approaching municipal elections in Kingston this October, many candidates have discussed both the city’s housing crisis and sustainability issues.
Eat healthy food, avoid processed foods, cut saturated fats, exercise daily, prioritize at least eight hours of sleep per night.
Online gambling has become more prevalent among people aged 19 to 25, with no sign of decline.
A university that is politically unbalanced does not necessarily lack ideological diversity.
Growing up in the Northwest Territories, an elderly neighbor once told me, “Whatever you do, do not grow old here.”
Students at Queen’s have all experienced an Orientation Week fragmented across two weekends. However, it has not always been this way, nor does it need to be.
The growing push to enforce a strict gender binary ignores not only the lived realities of transgender and non-binary people today, but also the long history of Indigenous gender diversity on Turtle Island.
Every June, we spend weeks debating rainbow logos instead of queer issues.
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