LETTITOR

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   I’m not very good at relaxing. In fact, I’ve been clinically diagnosed with being terrible at it (in medical fields they call this a “severe…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   There’s something fraught with our relationship to success and failure. I know for many people, the idea of failure is panic-inducing. Failure in many cases…

By Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   I might not seem like it, but I’m a very competitive person—especially in creative fields. As much as I’ve tried to tamp down on the…

LettitorBy Bex Peterson, Editor-in-Chief   As I write this, it’s about 20 degrees Celsius outside, and set to stay this warm through to Wednesday. Hard to believe that we were…

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…