Jenna Ryan

Even if you’re not familiar with the term “fast fashion,” chances are, your closet’s full of it.

Fast fashion is the term used for the inexpensive clothing rapidly produced by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends. Think Garage, H&M, and Zara.

Most fast fashion retailers are popular because they sell low-cost clothes, provide a wide range of designs, and constantly release new products. However, it’s been no secret for a while now that the negative social and environmental imp

Since its legalization, marijuana has become a big industry in Canada, and like most industries of its size, it comes with a substantial environmental impact—but it doesn’t have to.

Marijuana requires specific temperature and humidity levels to grow efficiently, and growing marijuana indoors requires a huge amount of energy consumption. If you were to walk into a flowering room at most of Canada’s legal cannabis producers, you’d be immediately immersed in the orange glow of high-pressure sodium

There is no doubt that soon enough the youth of today are going to run the world. Generation Z -those born between 1996 and 2010, make up approximately 32% of the world's population. These numbers surpass the percentage of Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) and the Baby Boomers (those born between 1944 and 1964). A wave of Generation Z-ers will soon enter the workforce with many more entering into university and high school. However, the waves of activism and advocacy around the worl

Global emissions have been continuously rising and are starting to reach record breaking levels. Each year that passes becomes warmer than the last. With the number of problems that climate change causes, world leaders and politicians have been continuously called upon to take action to solve this mounting crisis. Rising temperatures and sea levels are commonly understood as effects of climate change, but the massive threat of climate change on human health is only recently starting to be unders

50s FASHION IS MORE THAN JUST POODLESKIRTS AND POLOS

In the years following World War II, the United States was marked by economic prosperity, a powerful military, and the invention of new technology like televisions, electronic appliances, and suburban houses. The 1950s were a fascinating time in the US and the fashion during this period was no different. The silhouettes were imaginative and the patterns were expressive, and over time iconic images evolved that are replicated in fashion today.

As Christmas quickly approaches, many Canadians are gearing up for a joyous period of spending time with family, gift-giving, eating delicious baked goods, attending Christmas mass, and hopefully unwinding by curling up on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate. Each person who celebrates Christmas has some kind of activity or tradition that is special to themself, their family, religion, or geographical region. Canada’s most easterly province, Newfoundland and Labrador, has a variety of unique C

I’ve always loved to read and I make an intentional effort to read books written from different perspectives than my own. To my disappointment, it seems that has not been the goal of many of my English teachers– men and women alike. I’ve recently noticed there’s been a trend throughout my academic life where literature by and about women has been largely left out. In high school, I got marks docked for discussing the obvious feminist themes of Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” as