Shad uses hip-hop to provide hope, inspiration, change

Toronto-based rapper Shad’s latest album TAO, released last year, takes listeners through the thought processes of Taoism beliefs and social awareness. C.S. Lewis’ 1943 book The Abolition of Man and Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism are used as references by Shad to provide context to dystopian changes in society over music […]

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Outside in: Interurban campus from a different perspective

In March, Nexus contributing writer Celina Lessard photographed the Lansdowne campus in an attempt to capture it in unique, new angles. Now, Lessard took to Interurban campus to do the same. Enjoy this look at that campus in a whole new light. – Greg Pratt, managing editor

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Nic’s Flicks: Ambulance nonsensical, nauseating

Ambulance (2022) 1/4 I’ve never been a fan of Michel Bay’s work but I went to see his newest movie, Ambulance, with a open mind, hoping that this may just be one of his better films. Unfortunately, my hopefulness was short lived. This movie—which is based on a Danish movie from 2005—is everything that I […]

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Leaving the Cave: Hopeful in Highlands

Since life is now becoming somewhat regular again—we’re not always wearing our masks, we can gather in larger groups—I’m curious as to how we all, as a student body, survived the past two years. I mean, what did the whole, very surreal, experience do to our fragile minds? What effect did isolation have on us, […]

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Show Me the Money: Investing in foreign markets

In our globalized world, we can easily buy products from all over the planet. In fact, it may be hard to find products that do not contain materials from multiple countries. Since we consume globally, should we also think about investing globally?  Here in Canada, we can easily invest in Canadian and US markets, but […]

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Let’s Talk 2.0: Find your opinion, people

Let’s talk a bit about opinion building and finding a voice. After I conducted the interviews for a recent Speak Up about women’s rights (see our March 23, 2022 issue) I realized that most people actually don’t have any opinion about women’s rights. This really made me think, though: with all the steps forward in […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: May 4, 2022 issue

Cutting the cable: April 24 to 30, 1997 was International TV Turn-off Week and Nexus writers had varying opinions on this cause, according to a story in our April 14, 1997 issue. On one hand, there was the argument that we shouldn’t be getting our cultural cues from advertisement-funded corporations, and that the consumption of […]

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New Music Revue: Frog Eyes come back strong with The Bees

Frog Eyes The Bees (Paper Bag Records) 3.5/5  Frog Eyes is back with their first album in four years, after taking a break and releasing an album under the name Soft Plastics in 2020. The Bees celebrates Frog Eyes’ new path in their musical journey with 10 unique songs with an abstract sound and upbeat […]

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