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You Can’t Consume Your Way Into Being a Good Person
June 17, 2025
News Media Paywalls Are Encouraging Anti-Intellectualism On Social Media
June 10, 2025
You Can Make a Difference Baking Cake
May 1, 2025
Defund or Defend? The CBC, Public Broadcasting, and why it matters for the 2025 Election
April 18, 2025
Galentine’s Day: Women’s Empowerment, Community, and the Loneliness Epidemic
February 14, 2025
F is For Fascism: An Alphabetical Guide to the Far Right Drift
February 12, 2025
New Fiction Releases To Keep You Warm This February
February 9, 2025
New Albums to Fall In Love With This February
February 7, 2025
Celebrity Activism Will Never Be Enough For You
February 6, 2025
How to See the Politics in Pop Culture
January 22, 2025
How to Become More Politically Literate
January 8, 2025
What Happened to Media Literacy?
January 7, 2025
Best New Non-Fiction & Poetry Releases in January 2025
January 5, 2025
Best New Fiction Releases in January 2025
January 5, 2025
Hottest New Albums in January 2025
January 5, 2025
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You Can’t Consume Your Way Into Being a Good Person

A stream of consciousness essay about how you can't consume media to magically become a good person. Reflecting on art and the lessons we take from it is more important.
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Posted by Justine June 17, 2025
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News Media Paywalls Are Encouraging Anti-Intellectualism On Social Media

In this blog post, I discuss the rise of media paywalls and anti-intellectualism and how they feed into each other and impact your life.
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Posted by Justine June 10, 2025
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You Can Make a Difference Baking Cake

Sometimes you have to take out the trash. But sometimes you need to bake cake. No one can save the world but all of us can. 
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Posted by Justine May 1, 2025
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Defund or Defend? The CBC, Public Broadcasting, and why it matters for the 2025 Election

Should the Canadian government defund the CBC? This essay looks at public broadcasting and its history in Canada to refute the calls to defund it.
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Posted by Justine April 18, 2025
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Galentine’s Day: Women’s Empowerment, Community, and the Loneliness Epidemic

Galentine’s Day, celebrated annually on February 13th, carves out a day away from romantic love and partners and instead focuses on platonic love between women. 
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Posted by Justine February 14, 2025
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F is For Fascism: An Alphabetical Guide to the Far Right Drift

Fascism this, fascism that. But tell me, how do you define fascism? The word packs a punch and this guide is to help build a better picture of what fascism is.
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Posted by Justine February 12, 2025
You Can’t Consume Your Way Into Being a Good Person
Posted inEssay

You Can’t Consume Your Way Into Being a Good Person

A stream of consciousness essay about how you can't consume media to magically become a good person. Reflecting on art and the lessons we take from it is more important.
Posted by Justine June 17, 2025
News Media Paywalls Are Encouraging Anti-Intellectualism On Social Media
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News Media Paywalls Are Encouraging Anti-Intellectualism On Social Media

In this blog post, I discuss the rise of media paywalls and anti-intellectualism and how they feed into each other and impact your life.
Posted by Justine June 10, 2025
You Can Make a Difference Baking Cake
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You Can Make a Difference Baking Cake

Sometimes you have to take out the trash. But sometimes you need to bake cake. No one can save the world but all of us can. 
Posted by Justine May 1, 2025
Defund or Defend? The CBC, Public Broadcasting, and why it matters for the 2025 Election
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Defund or Defend? The CBC, Public Broadcasting, and why it matters for the 2025 Election

Should the Canadian government defund the CBC? This essay looks at public broadcasting and its history in Canada to refute the calls to defund it.
Posted by Justine April 18, 2025
Galentine’s Day: Women’s Empowerment, Community, and the Loneliness Epidemic
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Galentine’s Day: Women’s Empowerment, Community, and the Loneliness Epidemic

Galentine’s Day, celebrated annually on February 13th, carves out a day away from romantic love and partners and instead focuses on platonic love between women. 
Posted by Justine February 14, 2025
F is For Fascism: An Alphabetical Guide to the Far Right Drift
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F is For Fascism: An Alphabetical Guide to the Far Right Drift

Fascism this, fascism that. But tell me, how do you define fascism? The word packs a punch and this guide is to help build a better picture of what fascism is.
Posted by Justine February 12, 2025
New Fiction Releases To Keep You Warm This February
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New Fiction Releases To Keep You Warm This February

Some new books releasing this month! My taste is books tends to be a bit serious but if you love literary fiction, you'll definitely love this selection.
Posted by Justine February 9, 2025
New Albums to Fall In Love With This February
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New Albums to Fall In Love With This February

February - the month of love! So let's find your new fave in these new albums. These R&B and indie picks with have you feeling sensual AND existential.
Posted by Justine February 7, 2025
Celebrity Activism Will Never Be Enough For You
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Celebrity Activism Will Never Be Enough For You

Chappell Roan's acceptance speech was met with mixed reactions as she called on record labels to better support their artists. But why does celebrity activism leave a bitter taste?
Posted by Justine February 6, 2025
How to See the Politics in Pop Culture
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How to See the Politics in Pop Culture

Art has always been a rallying force upon which culture and civilizations have been built. By looking at pop culture, we can learn a lot about a society.
Posted by Justine January 22, 2025

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