C/O Denver Della-Vedova Denver Della-Vedova is running to be MSU president again, albeit with an updated campaign  Della-Vedova fails to commit fully to many of his platform points and lacks detail regarding consultation, raising questions about feasibility.  Amplifying Voices    Della-Vedova proposes a $1 fee per student to assist the Undergraduates of Research Intensive Universities with […]

C/O Simranjeet Singh Meet Simranjeet Singh, one of the candidates running to become MSU president  Simranjeet Singh is a fourth-year biomedical discovery and commercialization student at McMaster. Currently, Singh serves as the McMaster Students Union’s associate vice president: services. He is currently running to become the next MSU president.   Singh has provided a platform of five core foundations: […]

C/O Simranjeet Singh Simranjeet’s Singh’s platform offers an ambitious number of ideas to various issues   With a whooping 26 platform points, Singh brings forth a myriad of solutions to pressing issues, but not without question of feasibility. Singh’s platform hinges on extensive collaboration with numerous organizations within McMaster University and the city of Hamilton. Student Wellness   […]

For Catiyana, her third year of university is when she started to feel like graduation was a near to impossible idea and it began to grow more daunting everyday. Nevertheless, she persisted – and now she can say she is a McMaster graduate! While she may have felt lost at times, she eventually found her […]

C/O Youssef Naddam, Unsplash New psychoeducational groups at the Student Wellness Centre starting this month Psychoeducational groups are designed to focus on teaching a specific topic with an emphasis on developing healthy coping mechanisms.  This month, McMaster University’s Student Wellness Centre is launching multiple psychoeducational groups. This includes the Fostering Self-Compassion and Mindfulness group, the […]

C/O Uta Scholl, Unsplash With the rising COVID-19 cases in Ontario, many spent their holidays differently than expected Prior to the outbreak of the Omicron variant, which began in Ontario at the end of November, the COVID-19 case count had remained relatively stable for most of fall. The lower case counts allowed the province to […]

C/O Nick Fewings, Unsplash YWCA Hamilton workshops address unique mental health experiences among 2SLGBTQIA+ newcomers Just a few months ago, Canada was experiencing a steady decline in COVID-19 cases and life was finally beginning to feel normal again. More Canadians were becoming fully vaccinated against the virus, further restrictions were loosening and McMaster University students […]

C/O Vitolda Klein, Unsplash Chasing perfection is a societal ideal that rarely benefits the one chasing Recently, I have noticed how often the term "perfectionism" is thrown around. Nowadays, it seems as if everyone is a proud perfectionist who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection.  Their sense of perfectionism will appear in their […]

Travis Nguyen/Photo Editor How the newly imposed restrictions have negatively affected university athletes. As athletes begin to return after three weeks off for the winter break, they will quickly have to adjust, as the Ontario University Athletics have seen major changes. As of Dec. 17, the OUA has halted all university sports amid the Omicron […]

C/O Georgia Kirkos McMaster experts share insights about the updated guidelines and their effects on the spread of Omicron After relatively steady COVID-19 case counts throughout the fall, the highly contagious Omicron variant was identified in Ontario at the end of November. Since then, case counts have skyrocketed, surpassing 10,000 cases for the first time […]