I’ve been using social media for the past nine years, but media in general has consumed a large part of my life. I can still remember getting excited over a range of programs from London’s six o’clock news with my grandparents to silly reality shows such as Flavor of Love and The Surreal Life with […]
Editorials
The Tragic Thing About Minorities
In her autobiography, La détresse et L'enchantement, Gabrielle Roy writes of her identity as a Franco-Manitoban. Existing between the two separate worlds of French and English, she ultimately comes to embrace her bilingual and bicultural identities. When meeting with the director of her teaching institution, he briskly informs her: “The tragic thing about minorities is […]
Two Years Under the Sleeping Giant
Prior to York, I spent two years in the city of Thunder Bay. What’s a Park Avenue socialite doing in the tropics of the tundra? Well, I was studying in the bush. I learned many things over the course of four semesters. Of them: how to put out a grease fire - no really, I […]
Seventeen Years: The Protest Continues
Rewind to the first weekend in June. I was called down to review the Shaw Festival’s production of Sweet Charity. We bicycled through the various vineyards of the Niagara region, spent time with both sides of his family and topped it off with the season’s front-running show. It was an amazing weekend. As a Torontonian, […]
