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Grocery Run

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by Aryan Pasricha I pulled into the parking lot at Dino’s No Frills off Avenue Road. I expected […]

May 8, 2020 Uncategorized

“We Can Defeat This Virus”

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By Jordan Weiss As I sit down to write this, the Eve of Passover nears and the Seder […]

May 7, 2020 Quarantine Journals

Flashing Back to ‘It’ from the Future

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By Billy Shi April 24, 2020Dear daughter/son,When you are able to read, this is a piece you should […]

May 7, 2020 Quarantine Journals

Unprecedented Times Call for Unprecedented Measures

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By Shaan Hooey “We’re living in an unprecedented time.” “The times we’re living in are unprecedented.” It’s all […]

May 7, 2020 Quarantine Journals

Trump vs. the WHO

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By Dima Kulakov Over the past few months, Donald Trump, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s Director-General, have been […]

May 6, 2020 Dima Kulakov

Episode 3: Joseph Wu

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0:55 – Mystery Guest Revealed1:20 – Guest Bio 2:50 – Why is Debate special?5:25 – Touch courses in IB: […]

May 3, 2020 College Life

Cancer During COVID-19

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By: Drake Belanger Polak and Colin O’dwyer 617 people in Canada get diagnosed with cancer every day in […]

May 2, 2020 Uncategorized

Community, Debating, and the Value of Talking to Strangers

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By Randy Chang This past January, I boarded a coach bus with a group of other UCC debaters […]

April 30, 2020 College Life, Randy Chang

Blue Tape: Dare to be Sustainable

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Our special guest for this episode was Ziya Tong, author of The Reality Bubble and co-host of Daily […]

April 28, 2020 Caden Shapiro, Karam Bambawale, krishna bambawale

1 Pandemic – 10 Students, 8 Countries

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April 26, 2020 Uncategorized

Standardized Who?

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by Krishna Bambawale For those of you planning to apply to the US for university, standardized testing might […]

April 23, 2020 krishna bambawale

Strategic Reflection from the Class of 2020: Ep 2

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0:00 – Intro 2:00 – Mystery Guest revealed! 2:15 – Guest Bio 3:30 – Is school spirit going […]

April 21, 2020 Uncategorized

Ozark Review

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by Will Huang Season 1 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAXVqrljbs  Ozark is one of the craziest and most underrated shows on […]

April 19, 2020 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized

Blue Tape: College Check-in #1

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The Blue Tape Podcast: College Check-in #1. After the inaugural Zoom Ball, Blue Tape checked in with some […]

April 18, 2020 Caden Shapiro, Uncategorized

Why 1+1 Isn’t Necessarily 2: On Cooperation During Covid-19

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Hyunwook Lee Humanity is shaken and communities are crumbling; the coronavirus is changing the earth. This microbe, invisible […]

April 17, 2020 Uncategorized

5 Albums You Should Listen To

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by Eugene Ye Since we have all found ourselves with more time than usual, I wanted to suggest […]

April 16, 2020 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized

UCC Initiatives

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By Kene Ochuba As your incoming community service steward I have decided to highlight all the amazing initiatives […]

April 14, 2020 College Life

How Will the NBA Return?

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Dima Kulakov Because of COVID-19, countless things I have taken for granted have been cancelled. Among those was […]

April 10, 2020 Dima Kulakov, Sports.

The Existential Crisis of Social Distancing

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Phillip Kong As millions across the world suffer from the vicious disease of COVID-19, a quieter crisis arises […]

April 9, 2020 Phillip Kong, Philosophy

Strategic Reflections from the Class of 2020 – Episode #1: Community

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By Chris Noh and Shaan Hooey 0:00 – Intro to the podcast 2:20 – Guest Revealed! 2:44 – […]

April 8, 2020 Uncategorized

Pros and Cons Club Goes Virtual

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Matthew Wong and Marshall WongVideo by Sebastian Jones A pessimist sees the glass half empty while an optimist […]

April 2, 2020 Uncategorized

Europe: nCOVernments

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by Nathan Chong Here’s what 10 Europeans aged 15-18 had to say about the question “How well do […]

April 1, 2020 Uncategorized

Solidarity in Isolation

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by Eugene Ye With so many concerts, orchestras, and rehearsals all cancelled because of COVID-19, musicians like me […]

March 30, 2020 Uncategorized

Blue Tape: Corona “Gone Viral”

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The Blue Tape Podcast Episode #2: A global discussion between 11 international students on the current and potential […]

March 29, 2020 Caden Shapiro, Uncategorized

The Power of Storytelling

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By Albert Lou In 1987, a toddler named Jessica wandered into her family’s backyard and fell 22 feet […]

March 26, 2020 Uncategorized

Strategic Reflections

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Strategic Reflections from the Class of 2020 is the first season of a podcast series examining the ever-so-valued […]

March 24, 2020 Uncategorized

Q & A with Mr. Bardai Part 2

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March 23, 2020 Caden Shapiro, Uncategorized

Q&A with Mr. Bardai

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Shoutout to Mr. Bardai for making this happen! Big thanks to Duro and Phil for joining us as […]

March 22, 2020 Caden Shapiro, Karam Bambawale, Uncategorized

Coming Together as a Community in the Times of Social Distancing

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By Drake Belanger-Polak Over 300 thousand reported people are infected by the Coronavirus. Cases exponentially increase everyday. Governments […]

March 22, 2020 Uncategorized

Blue Tape: The Impact of COVID-19 on School

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The Blue Tape Podcast #1: A conversation amongst 11 high school students regarding COVID-19 and its impact on […]

March 20, 2020 Caden Shapiro

Sitting Down with the next G. R. R. Martin: The Red Castle

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A few questions with Noah Verhoeff by Caden Shapiro. So… you’ve written a novel. I don’t get to […]

March 19, 2020 Arts & Entertainment, Caden Shapiro

Lord of the Flies Preview

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Phillip Kong Photography by: Gillian Levene Lord of the Flies is UCC’s Year 8 & 9 winter dramatic […]

February 26, 2020 Arts, Arts & Entertainment, Phillip Kong, Uncategorized

Certainty

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Albert Lou It was a night, not so long ago, when I laid in bed, under the blanket […]

February 22, 2020 Uncategorized

Racism in the Time of the Coronavirus

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John Lu I want to start by saying that you don’t have to agree with me here. What […]

February 4, 2020 Uncategorized

Metaphysical Thinking and the Nature of Truth

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Ewan Maynes Recently I came upon a most interesting idea. The question was on the nature of the […]

January 21, 2020 Philosophy, Uncategorized

A New NBA?

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By Dima Kulakov This year, the NBA has seen a sharp decrease of as much as 20% in […]

January 14, 2020 Dima Kulakov, Sports.

Why the Sneaker Industry will be Worth 95 billion

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Alfred Shi In 2016, the athletic footwear industry was valued at $55 million. Now, it’s predicted that the […]

January 8, 2020 Uncategorized

Jojo Rabbit Movie Review (Spoiler Free!)

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Elliott Ingram The first thing that everyone asks before going to see a movie is, of course, what […]

January 7, 2020 Uncategorized

1/1/20

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By Caden Shapiro It’s a little cold at the moment in Dunedin, Florida. Then again, I feel for […]

January 1, 2020 Caden Shapiro

An Unlikely Philosopher: Taylor Swift’s Progression From Essentialism to Existentialism

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Phillip Kong She is the American Music Awards’ Artist of the Decade. She has won 10 Grammys (so […]

December 23, 2019 Phillip Kong, Philosophy, Uncategorized

Dr. Přemek Hamr Interview

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Academic Background: B.Sc. in environmental science (Concordia University), M.Sc. in watershed ecosystems (Trent University), Ph.D. in zoology (University of […]

November 27, 2019 Caden Shapiro, TBAW.tv

From Yeezus to Jesus: The Metamorphosis of Kanye West

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Nico Jeffrey On October 25, Kanye West delivered his long-awaited Album, Jesus Is King. Many longtime listeners of […]

November 26, 2019 Music

The Editor’s Review of the Board of Stewards

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Phillip Kong Last spring, I interviewed our new Head Steward, Uche Ochuba, on his plans for the 2019-2020 […]

November 22, 2019 College Life, Phillip Kong

What Being an Armenian Means to Me

Daniel Ayik A couple of years ago, my seven close friends and I traveled to Armenia as we […]

November 13, 2019 Uncategorized

Joker Movie Review (Spoiler Free!)

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By Elliot Ingram I went into Joker with mixed expectations. I knew of the amazing reviews and the […]

October 26, 2019 Elliot Ingram

Academic Changes to UCC

Eugene Ye Going into a new academic year and their first year of the IB Diploma program, students […]

October 21, 2019 Uncategorized

The Blazer: October 2019 Issue

October 16, 2019 Blazer, Uncategorized

Why This Year’s A-Day was My Favourite One

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Phillip KongPhotos by Andy Wang and Faizan Haider In typical TBAW fashion, we are reporting on events way […]

October 15, 2019 Phillip Kong

Relay for Life

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By Guclu Emir Can On October 11, 2019, UCC hosted their first student-led fundraising event “Relay for Life,” […]

October 13, 2019 Guclu Clan

UCC Open

By Dima Kulakov I never believed in Murphy’s law, which states that whatever can go wrong, will go […]

October 4, 2019 Dima Kulakov, Uncategorized

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