2021 Writing Contest Winners

First Year Category 

First Prize: 

Siddhartha Minhas - Assassinating “the muscular hook of my cock”: Hayes Condemns White Supremacy

Second Prize:

Andy Liu - Apple’s Monopolistic Control Over the Tech Industry

Honourable Mentions: 

Jackson Cyr - Judicial Selection: Why Canada Should Not Elect Its Judges

Jeffrey Ning - The History of The Walt Disney Company and Its Context in the Study of the Political Economy of Communication

Olivia Wong - The Consequences of Sexualizing Young Girls in Reality Television Dance Programs

Middle Years Category 

First Prize: 

Victoria Brown - Recruitment of Social Media Influencers to Promote Self-Compassion Practices to Combat the Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescents

Second Prize: 

Rebekah Wong - The Perception of Quantifier Raising in Japanese-English Bilinguals

Honourable Mentions:

Anoushka Kang - Nature as a Powerful Force in Literature

Hannah Kazemi - Using Tradition to Inform Perspective and Explore Worldview

Kanwarveer Sidhu - Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation: A Case For The Equal Consideration Of All Animals And New Understanding Of Non-Persons

Fourth Year+ Category 

First Prize: 

Mireta Strandberg-Salmon - Re-Storying the Anthropocene: No Golden Spike, No Silver Bullet

Second Prize: 

Ethan Gibson - “Toying Architecturally with the Bones”: On Sitting Down to Read Heart of Darkness Once Again

Honourable Mention:

Amanda McRae - Environmental Romanticism: The “Protection” of Nature Perpetuates Erasures of Indigenous Existence from Their Traditional Territories

Emma Juergensen - Compounding Marginalization: Family-Sponsored Immigrant Older Adults' Access to Dementia Care in Canada

Plurilingual Prize Category 

First Prize: 

Emily Ma - Eating Bitterness (吃苦): Critical to Chinese Immigrant Identity or Perpetuating the Model Minority Myth?

Second Prize: 

Judy Yae Young Kim - AI Translators and the International K-Pop Fandom on Twitter