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Netflix releases press email to users in response to diversity concerns
April 9, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor To our esteemed viewers, we hear you loud and clear. Netflix was disheartened to learn of our users’ sudden discontentment with the platform’s dwindling content, amidst Riverdale being cleared for yet another season. Since our first diversity report in 2021, diversity has been our number one priority. More people are asking for queer representation, and we hear you! It’s just so hard to accomplish accurate on-screen representation without backlash — especially from right-wing communities. Please know our reasoning for cancelling these shows is so we can produce even better queer content in the future, without…
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Netflix announces it has successfully reinvented cable TV
April 5, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Here at Netflix, we’re just like that mediocre show we cancelled after two seasons . . . Insatiable. We have successfully sneaked our way into homes worldwide and cemented ourselves into meme history books by…
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Netflix should replace all its content with reality TV
April 5, 2023By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer In classic corporate fashion, Netflix has been determined to kill their platform in recent years — almost impressively, I’ll say. Prices are surging to fund increasingly shitty Netflix Originals, while the company laughs in the…
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Opinions in Dialogue: What it feels like to be disabled during COVID-19
March 31, 2023By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor & Michelle Young, Editor-in-Chief It’s been just over three years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Most people in the west spent around two years following COVID-19 precautions. However, many were eager to discard their…
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WGOG: bugs in glasses
March 28, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor This piece goes out to all my fellow glass-wearers. My glasses are practically glued to my face, and yet, at the end of each day when I take them off to sleep, there’s always so…
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Censorship concerns over the Online Streaming Act are misguided
March 28, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor The content we see online in Canada is about to change. Since 1991, Canada’s Broadcasting Act has regulated Canadian broadcast content. The Act requires that 35% of broadcast content consists of Canadian content.…
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Fake crisis pregnancy centres infringe on reproductive freedom
March 23, 2023By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of pro-life rhetoric. Masquerading as support services for pregnant people, clinics known as crisis pregnancy centres (CPC) are dangerous and deceive those that require support services to deal with unwanted pregnancies. These…
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It’s OK to live with your parents as an adult
March 20, 2023By: Jerrica Zabala, Peak Associate There’s this assumption, especially among older generations, that living with your parents means you haven’t matured yet or you’re behind on the milestones you “need” to be an adult. Living with your parents or guardians…
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The west is villainizing the Chinese government
March 20, 2023By: Karissa Ketter, News Editor Content warning: mentions of anti-Asian violence and racism. China has consistently been featured in western news for one reason or another these last couple years. Beginning with the COVID-19 outbreak, western media and government officials…
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Don’t tell me to “go to therapy”
March 17, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer These days, telling someone to “get therapy” or “get help” is such a common read. But even when said with good intentions, saying this to someone unprompted is kind of rude. Don’t get me wrong,…
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