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Large class sizes are a fact of life for many new undergraduate students. Here’s how to make the most of the situation.

American politics’ big day used to take place in March.

Mark Bourrie’s chronicling of Pierre-Esprit Radisson includes cannibalism, a Caribbean shipwreck and the creation of the Hudson’s Bay Company

The author of the Shetland and Vera novels calls herself a human geographer. The settings for her stories aren’t, she says, only a ‘pretty backdrop to the action.’

Campaigns may have gone high tech, but votes are still counted the old fashioned way—one by one on folded paper ballots

Stephen Maher: Without a majority, both the Liberal and Conservative leaders will have failed in key ways, and their parties could push for change

Philippe J. Fournier: The night before the election, there is no certainty in the numbers. We could end up with the first popular vote and seat split in 40 years.

Shannon Gormley: In this nasty, empty campaign, how would a debate on foreign policy have gone? Safe to say, pretty badly.

Pierre Trudeau’s biographer talks about how Justin Trudeau’s second campaign looks remarkably like his father’s sophomore run

Support for a minority government—now the likely outcome—is at 40 per cent, with some voters in every party hoping there’s no majority

Philippe J. Fournier: How would this tight election end if Trudeau had kept his electoral reform promise? With three powerful parties, for starters.

The meme unleashed discussion of gendered inequities, including the continuing wage gap and the nature of consent