Reading Time: 8 minutesThe Fulcrum spoke to three students with different perspectives on youth political involvement to explore their insights and opinions into mental health. It became a brief but telling exploration of the challenges, supports, and lessons of staying healthy in the halls of power.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen the only thing we can do is hate ourselves, you remind us of all the reasons to do the opposite. When we can’t love ourselves, you do.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“These are the things I hold close when I remember that while growing up I contended with some things that no ten-year-old should.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Not everyone has access to bricks-and-mortar museums … The opportunity to view art online offers increased accessibility to visual culture.”
Reading Time: 6 minutes“It’s such easy money, like the easiest money ever … I was just rolling in money.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“You feel like a completely different person when you’re on it.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“For some of us, we also experience the confusion of sexuality from a young age, and figuring out where you land on the sexuality spectrum can be the most difficult experience of all.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“If we do stay the night, we leave before the sun comes up to avoid the awkward intimacy of the morning after in favour of an uncomfortable Uber ride or the occasional walk home.”
Reading Time: 5 minutesTy’s collected some of his favourite questions, with some brand new answers.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Staking a claim on who we get to date just because we’re perceived to be members of a specific community is ignorant and hurtful. It restricts love, and love should never be restricted.”
Reading Time: 6 minutes“If you … (think) people with HIV deserve to be thrown in jail, you won’t care about applying the criminal law because you don’t see them as human beings; you see them as vectors of transmission.”
Reading Time: 10 minutes“They’re putting a Band-Aid on a (major problem) and it’s not the right type of Band-Aid, it’s going to fall off after your first shower,” said Brittany Wilson, who uses OSAP’s soon to be scrapped free tuition grant.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Fulcrum sat down with Bruce Devine, senior manager of the Rideau Canal Skateway, to talk all things ice and Beavertails.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA poem by a Fulcrum contributor
Reading Time: 4 minutesShort story by Liam Wray.
Reading Time: 2 minutesShort story by Sarah Priscus.
Reading Time: 4 minutesShort story by Keelan Buck.
Reading Time: 4 minutesShort story by Zoë Mason.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA poem by Fulcrum contributor
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by a Fulcrum contributor.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by Alex Tyrie.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by Ricardo.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by Mar Khorkhordina.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by Mar Khorkhordina.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePoem by Julia D’Silva.
