Welcome back. Do you feel properly welcomed? Great! I guess I can’t really leave it there, can I? No. Well, alright then. For those of you who do not already know me, my name is Emily Diehl, and I am the Editor-in-Chief of The Quill. This is my second year in the position; previously, I held the position of Assistant Editor-in-Chief during the 2011-2012 school year.
Read moreΑληθευοντες δε εν αγαπη
Made you look. Clever, no? I am sure you are dying to know why I have put strange hieroglyphics at the top of your everyday student newspaper. Well, let me tell you…
Read moreI’m calling bulls#!t, and so should you
I suffer from depression. There, I said it. You know why I said it first? Because now you know someone who suffers from depression. You don’t have to read the rest of this article if you don’t want to, because I’m going to talk about mental illness and whom it affects—but if I had started this article with a statistic about how many people suffer from mental illnesses in Canada, I would be willing to bet that quite a lot of you would have skipped to the next headline.
Read moreThe Orange Violin (no relation to the Red)
Most of the offices in the Queen Elizabeth II building have varying amounts of eclectica on the walls, on the floor, on the desk. Usually, a carefully-maintained piano graces the room: in the larger offices, one or even two grand pianos; in the smaller ones, a single upright. There is, most of the time, a window, more often than not semi-obscured by a tree.
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