COVID side-hustles save students from inflation
These three students started small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic that now help support them through high inflation
This is the parent category for the 8 GTA sectors used in 2020
From dorm room to set
In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, three friends sat nervously in a cramped room at Pitman Hall Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University, ready to pack up their lives and move back home. Dreams of making it big in the production world were quickly crushed by the looming threat of the global pandemic.
Student Startups
Starting a business is no easy feat, and it requires hard work and dedication to become successful. Three young entrepreneurs share their business ideas and how far they’ve come, which is contrasted against other stories of entrepreneurs who have made it big.
‘The Live Eye’: A Brief History of Toronto Pop Culture
Thirty years after its creation, the Citytv van installation commemorates a bygone era of Toronto pop culture
Boards Without Barriers
Women continue to blaze trails and find community through skateboarding
A Band-Aid Solution to Internal Bleeding
Toronto’s ERs are too slow to function
Losing Focus: Scrolling Miles on Social Media
Is social media and the increase of fast-paced content making us impatient in real life?
Take a sip of coffee into Toronto’s K-pop cafe event scene
Cup sleeves have become an essential part of the “Hallyu Wave” making their way into fan communities around the city
Keeping the beat working
Nuñez Ramos and his bandmates are among about 100 students who, as part of their education, get the opportunity to showcase their talent at 5:30 p.m. on the stage at The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar each Monday evening.
Here, University of Toronto (UoT) jazz studies students can hone their craft in a way many students do not. They take their first step into the spotlight, catching, through the dim bar lights and murmuring voices, what may be ahead of them.
The ‘Second Sex’ of harm reduction
From 2010 to 2020, opioid-related fatalities in women increased 46% faster than in men. While recent years have popularized harm reduction facilities such as safe injection and drug testing sites, marked differences between men and women have been systemically ignored in the assembly of drug-centred health care.