When she was 16-years-old, Raven Lacerte and her father Paul went out hunting for moose, an annual ritual she and her family completed every year. After they returned from their hunt, Raven and her family had skinned the hide and cut up to approximately 25, 000 pieces of moose hide. She and her sisters had hand-written index cards with information about domestic violence and handed them out to people in their community. This idea would spark the beginning of a national grassroots movement that

Is life about how you see yourself? Or is it about how others see you? Bearable is an up-and-coming interactive game that zeroes in on this question. Designed by Kristopher Alexander, a Ryerson RTA professor, the purpose of the game is to focus on three primary components: family, life and happiness. “You’re gonna have to prioritize those three things as rankings,” said Alexander. According to him, the game is set in an anthropomorphic world where the player is a father, a professor and a blac

How the 2010s changed the genre by confronting the alt-right, xenophobia and racism within our society While many may consider the genre to be lowbrow, unrealistic or simply gory, mass consumers can never seem to get enough of horror movies. Throughout the years, horror movies have relied on themes that audiences relate to: the struggle between good and evil, the threat of deviancy corrupting our society, and how law and order remain undefeatable. These narratives are based on shared, cultural

Six years ago, Kristopher Alexander was ranking globally in Street Fighters III and ranked first in Canada for competing in Lightseekers, an online trading game. He’s always told people that the esports industry was the future for education, but many people didn’t believe him — until schools in Toronto went into lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Alexander is an assistant professor at Ryerson University, whose research stems around video games and esports infrastructure. According to him

With 13 days left in the federal election, veteran journalists have forewarned Canadians of a “splinter” election, during a democracy forum on Oct. 1. “I think this is a splinter election,” said Laura Stone, political reporter at The Globe and Mail. “There doesn’t appear to be one runaway issue.” On Tuesday Oct. 1, Ryerson’s Faculty of Arts hosted a democracy forum at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre. Along with Stone, the forum featured two other political journalists: Steve