LETTITOR

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   A few members of the OP attended a national student journalism conference down in San Diego last weekend. Comparing this experience to my experience with…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief If you really want to get on a journalist’s nerves, bring up “Fake News.” It happens a lot when I mention that I work for a…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   One of my favourite media critics on YouTube, Lindsay Ellis, has an entire ongoing series discussing the basics theories of film study and theory… by…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   It happens every year like clockwork. All through January, I hear people grumble that we’ve barely seen any snow in the Lower Mainland, that it’s…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   I think it’s not a bold statement to opine that the months between January through to the end of March kind of suck. The holidays…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   It was a grim week to be an aspiring journalist on Twitter. It seemed like nearly all the writers I follow were laid off or…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   I have this recurring dream that’s been plaguing me since 2013. I’m usually in a café, or a pub—some kind of public meeting place—and I…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   For this Lettitor I’ll be talking about dragons—but for once, I won’t be talking about Dragon Age. Professor Robert Gifford of the University of Victoria…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   Fun fact: This issue was a mistake. Not the content, the content is fantastic. In fact, the content is especially fantastic given the fact that…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   Role models, mentors, personal heroes—these are the kinds of people who can shape us into the sort of person we want to be. I’ve always…