Opinion

Op-Eds

Innocence Abroad ...The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming!

J.A. Forrester

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February 13, 2025

A simple question: Is the United States a global empire in the colonial tradition?

4 Years Left: The World Climate Clock and the Recognition of Indigenous Land Sovereignty

Ciara Richardson

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February 10, 2025

Ciara Richardson examines the World Climate Clock initiative and its efforts to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change before it's too late, specifically the project's investment in Indigenous Land Sovereignty as a means to combating the climate crisis.

Women's History Month and the Overlooked Intersections of Race and Femininity in Canada

Chukwugoziem Nwadugbo

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November 8, 2023

October Is considered women history month and this year’s theme favors an intersectional outlook. However, without a lot of the populace aware of this celebration, its effectiveness at spreading awareness is called into question. Evidently, the government did not do enough to celebrate women, address their unique challenges, and highlight their achievements.

To All Those Who Are Neutral In Today’s Holocaust

Afaf Ghazi

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October 30, 2023

If you have ever wondered how the world allowed the Holocaust to happen, pay close attention to the silence today. The State of Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, having killed about 5,791 Palestinians, displacing a further 1.4 million Palestinians, and bombing hospitals, bakeries and places of worship.

My Rental Breakdown: A Reflection on Navigating Peterborough’s Housing Crisis as a Clueless Tenant

Isla Gole

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June 23, 2023

Summer Journalist Isla Gole hits the ground running in her first op-ed recounting five years' worth of rental anecdotes in a Peterborough folktale with the moral: tenants beware!

You Are Not "Just A Girl." Stop Saying That

Louanne Morin

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January 23, 2025

Are you coquette? Do you know girl math? Do you subscribe to the philosophy of care ethics? From social media to academia, Louanne Morin details the ongoing antifeminist retrenchment.

There Goes Bonnerworth—My Pickleball Nightmare

James Cullingham

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January 7, 2025

Contributor and historian James Cullingham ruminates on the ongoing development of Bonnerworth Park and the ways in which Peterborough's prioritizing of pickleball parallels matters of provincial policy.

Life and Death on Faryon Bridge

Louanne Morin

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December 4, 2024

How do we pass by the names of murdered children inscribed on Faryon bridge every day with such ease? Louanne Morin grapples with what it means not to grieve the dead that surround us.

The Problem with White Feminism

Lindsay Blake

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November 26, 2024

Community contributor Lindsay Blake examines the ways in which the feminist movement has historically privileged the positions of White women, and marginalized women of colour in this Lilith 2024 contribution.

The Micro-Aesthetic Epidemic

Georgia Dunning

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November 26, 2024

Are you a clean girl? What about a green juice girl? Or maybe a messy girl? A downtown girl? Georgia Dunning explores the proliferation of micro-aesthetics targeting young women in her Lilith 2024 essay.

Trump and Canadian Pearl-Clutching

James Cullingham

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November 18, 2024

Community contributor James Cullingham comes to bear on Canadians despairing the re-election of one Donald J. Trump, arguing that the popular response is revelatory of one of our worst tendencies as a nation.

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