Category: The Scoop!

Matt Salton, Executive Director of the Reelout Queer Film Festival joins us in this episode to chat about this year’s festival!  Reelout, celebrating its 23rd year of independent queer cinematic presentation, features many great films and shorts across genres that will be easily accessible online.  Matt chats about this year’s theme, “International Points of View”, […]

On Tuesday January 11th, Quebec announced plans to impose a health tax on residents who refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccination for non-medical reasons as a new wave of the coronavirus overwhelms the province. Premier François Legault announced the new “contribution” for the unvaccinated on Tuesday, as the province reported 62 new deaths, bringing the […]

In this segment of The Scoop, Taylor Welsh chats with the organizers of Kingston Youth Climate Action and attendees of the Climate Emergency: Plan Like It! Campaign Kick-Off Rally!

In this segment of the Scoop, Prerna sits down  with Yara Hussein, Equity Commissioner ASUS to discuss recent happenings at HOCO at Queen’s, resources for sexual violence on campus and possible steps for Queen’s to take to enact concrete change on campus!

Prerna sits down with Jane Mao who spearheads GAAP to discuss the project’s bursary options, resources needed for Gender Affirmation and the need for Gender Affirmation assistance at Queen’s University.

Professor Jonathan Smallwood from the Department of Psychology here at Queen’s University joins us in this segment.  He was recently involved in a research study with several British Universities on the impact of prolonged social isolation and changes to work opportunities on people’s thought patterns.  Like Canada, the first UK lockdown caused huge disruption to […]

In this episode of The Scoop, we are joined by Geoffrey Sirett, Artistic Director & General Manager of Cantabile Choirs of Kingston.  He sheds light on the exciting new in-person concert, After the War taking place November 6th & 7th at The Spire in Kingston while sharing much about his own time with Cantabile and […]

In this segment, we sit with Professor Ali Na from Film and Media Department to discuss Squid Game and situate it in the context of late capitalism, South Korean Cultural Industry and History.

In this segment, we sit down with Dr. Jessica Wood, a research specialist and sexual health expert at the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN), to discuss questions and issues pertaining to consent, safer sex and contraception, as well as sexual health in the time of a pandemic.

“With every prominent whistleblower and every firing of those who speak out, we are getting closer to the beginning of the end for ‘surveillance capitalism’,” says Dr. David Murakami Wood (Associate Professor, Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University).  Surveillance capitalism is “the model that has driven the rise of platform […]