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Why Roll-Up The Rim is destroying our cities

The dejected, flattened, and faded Roll Up cup seems like a fitting still life for the Canadian spring. We’ve seen them in curbs and on sidewalks that border our main…

You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Rights: Photos From The C-51 Protest Rally

Reporting by Gwen Rosser Photos by Hugo Wong

MRT: Episode 1 – Canadian Basketball

Welcome to the first edition of the Martlet Sports Roundtable. Each week, this will be a space to chat about broad issues in Canadian sport and we will feature guests…

The 1972 Summit Series was actually about hockey

If you watched any games of the recent World Junior Hockey Championship over the holidays you were probably treated to an aggressive advertising campaign. The subject matter was the 1972…

The U.S. works to mend relations with Cuba

Following months of secret talks hosted by Canada between the United States and Cuba, the Obama administration further normalized political relations with the island nation, lifting travel and financial restrictions…

A new chapter for Indigenous rights

UVic meetings often begin with an acknowledgment of the unceded territories, a few sentences reminding participants of the history of campus land: that it, like most land in this province,…

Music Rags: Defining Canadian rap music

On “The Great Rhyme Dropper,” the first single from Grand Analog’s new album Modern Thunder, MC Odario Williams raps, “I do the damn thing proper/I ain’t a rapper, I’m a…