Who We Are 8th Guard

The Reckoner is the award-winning student newspaper of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute. During the school year, The Reckoner publishes regularly on its website and produces a monthly printed newspaper which is distributed to the school community. The organization is comprised entirely of dedicated student volunteers: some of the best writers, artists, photographers, designers, and developers of the school. In 2016, the organization was named Ontario’s Best High School Electronic Newspaper and Ontario’s Best High School Volunteer Newspaper by the Toronto Star. To view the previous guards, click any of the links below:

Seventh Guard (2017 – 2018)

Sixth Guard (2016 – 2017)

Fifth Guard (2015 – 2016)

Fourth Guard (2014 – 2015)

Third Guard (2013 – 2014)

Second Guard (2012 – 2013)

First Guard (2011 – 2012)

Emma Wai — Emma Wai is the Editor in Chief of The Reckoner. She spends her days eating, studying, and editing. (Also, not sleeping enough, which she tends to deprive herself of due to her unfortunate habit of procrastinating.) Although Emma is often busy jumping around on a trampoline or pretending to study for her next test, she's always available if you need to talk, argue, and/or complain about the latest headline. You can find her hanging around in bubble tea shops, sleeping on the TTC, getting obsessed with phone games for short periods of time, or coming up with chat nicknames that everyone—well, mostly Emma—finds hilarious.

Emma Wai

Editor in Chief

Julie Xiao — Aiman is the News Manager of The Reckoner. She is super keen and a perfectionist but also loves reading, travelling, and watching TV. Her favourite book is Jane Eyre and her favourite TV Series is The Crown. In the future she hopes to visit at least 100 countries, go skydiving, and learn sign language.

Aiman Altaf

News Manager

Anthony Chang — Anthony is the Deputy Editor in Chief and Director of Print Development at The Reckoner. He is also the proud record-holder for the longest title in The Reckoner. His work, hobbies, and pretty much his entire life revolves around staring at a screen—from graphic design, to photography, to programming, to aimlessly browsing Reddit—unless he's playing badminton, you'll likely find him fixed on his laptop. Despite his introversion, he will never decline an invitation to rant about anything from the TTC, to homework, to friends reading his bio just to meme him.

Anthony Chang

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Director of Print Development

Frank Chen — Frank Chen is a member of the Outreach Board at the Reckoner. In his spare time, he enjoys eating and sleeping, as well as confusing people with his name and the abundance of Franks in his school. He is adamantly not keen and cannot be convinced otherwise. Frank is generally un-creative and in-imaginative, and now must stop writing his biography to study for his multiple AP exams.

Frank Chen

Outreach Manager

Jim Wu — Jim Wu is the manager of the Web and App Development Board of The Reckoner. He is a grade 11 student who is confused by anything and everything about his life. He often stares at a computer screen hoping to program or learn about whatever interests him at the time but eventually succumbs to procrastination. For some reason, Jim is regularly online at 2 am and always regrets it in the morning.

Jim Wu

Director of Web and App Development

Madhumita Nathani — Madhu is the Life Manager at the Reckoner. She finds this hilarious because she is most certainly not capable of managing her own life. If you refer to her as "Madhumita", she most likely will hold a grudge against you for about 3 minutes (at most). Do feel free to use alternative names such as "Madhufus" or "Ma-dude" or "Ma-douche", though. Madhu enjoys leaning on and sticking to people, like a koala. When agitated, she uses phrases like "I will stab you", but do not be intimidated by this, or her height, for she is quite the small, harmless, vulnerable child.

Madhumita Nathani

Life Manager

Russell Ijaya — Russell Ijaya is the photography manager at the Reckoner. He loves all things well-designed things, well-thought out visuals, well-written pieces, and well, all things well. Always dreaming of adventure, he wanders the world through photographs and film, hoping to one day find his own perspective through his own lens. He loves spending hours awing over the work of Morgane Erpicum or Akira Hojo. As such, his Instagram news feed is often a myriad of visual-seeking photographers, but also a lot of dogs. Lots of dogs.

Russell Ijaya

Photography Manager

Sheri Kim — Sheri Kim is the Illustrations manager of The Reckoner. She is known for loving milk and can eat endless tubs of Baskin Robbins ice cream. Sheri is always in her comfortable sweats and hoodie and will never be seen wearing jeans. She loves the arts, especially ballet and all forms of dance. Sheri has a strange obsession with extreme sports and has been wanting to skydive for ages. She often wants to drop everything and travel with no clear plan in mind. Backpacking around Europe is number one on her bucket list, but Iceland is currently her dream travel destination.

Sheri Kim

Illustrations Manager

Tazik Shahjahan — Professionally, Tazik is a comic artist for the Life Board.

Tazik Shahjahan

Editorial Manager

Adil Haider — Adil Haider considers himself an editorial writer for The Reckoner, though his board manager isn't too sure. His hobbies include rambling on and on, burying himself in Wikipedia, baking up a storm, and did I mention rambling on and on? You can see him in the halls, either staring off into space because he's got nothing better to do, or panicking and rushing off because he's actually got something to do and it's due in an hour. Alternatively, if you want to avoid seeing that hot mess in person, just visit thereckoner.win to read his Significant Digits column every Friday.Attachments area

Adil Haider

Alex Guo — Alex Guo is a member of Reckoner’s Web Board. Oftentimes, Alex will be seen in the hall muttering indistinguishable phrases under his breath as he despairs over his Fantasy NBA lineups egregious performance. Although Alex may seem inebriated when approached, know that his behaviour is only because his stock portfolio has once again dropped 10%. Just kidding, Alex never loses.

Alex Guo

Amelie Zhou — Amelie Zhou is a ninth grader who has no clue what she plans on doing with her life, or what her hobby is. She is really good at procrastinating and cramming, which is precisely what she is doing right now. She has lots of big dreams for her future, none of which can be accomplished at this rate. She also excels at losing motivation faster than humanly possible. Amelie is improvising straight on the email, and she is really bad at manually counting words, so she is going to end this here just in case.

Amelie Zhou

Amy Chen — Amy Chen is an Illustrator and Life Board Artist for The Reckoner. She is a lover of art and the beauty found in even the most commonplace activities. When not complaining about her lack of sleep (even though she usually gets more than most people in her grade), she enjoys reading novels and watching movies where she is immersed in a world that is not her own.

Amy Chen

Amy Peng — Amy is a news writer for the Reckoner. On her free time she loves to find new bubble tea shops, try a variety of Japanese stationary, listen to music (mainly pop and punk-pop) and design her bullet journal. Her friends often make fun of her small pinkies but that’s ok because she’s happy with the way her small hands are. If you ever see Amy around the halls, feel free to say hi, as she is always looking for new friends.

Amy Peng

Andrew Li — Andrew is part of the Editorial Board and Print Development Board at The Reckoner. He likes to think that everything he does is a blend of the arts and the sciences, harnessing the crux of creativity and critical thinking. Perhaps more realistically, Andrew’s work demonstrates his absolute confusion while working to reach goals. He manages to always be unsure of what homework there is, although he keeps track of everything. Even with all these contradictions in Andrew’s life, he is somehow still regarded as reliable.

Andrew Li

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Andrew Liang

Angela Pang — Angela Pang is an Editorial Board writer at the Reckoner. She is made of oxymorons: both a perfectionist and a procrastinator, both social and introspective, and a fan of using big words despite not understanding them. Although many tell Angela that she is too loud, she strongly believes that she talks and laughs at a regular volume. Aside from winning games of Uno, she enjoys choreographing dances, baking cheesecakes, and attempting to recreate ‘artsy’ calligraphy in her free time. In the future, Angela hopes to stop cropping her friends out for profile photos.

Angela Pang

Ava Pun — Ava is a smol, perpetually confused demonfish who draws comics for the Life Board and takes photos for the Photography Board. She tries to be more intimidating than she looks but usually fails. When she’s not drawing comics or altering reality editing her photos, she can be found folding origami velociraptors, making electronic music, doing programming competitions, and definitely not writing bots to play Facebook games.

Ava Pun

Bridget Huh — Bridget is a writer for the Life and Editorial boards, but she expresses her thoughts that are inappropriate for publication on the Reckoner via her finsta @briijesus. Her pastimes include riding the bus. The bus is her happy place—morning traffic makes her day. Please don't talk to her if you ever see her on the bus. Bridget loves grammar and will correct absolutely anyone when the opportunity presents itself (this is why teachers hate her). She's happy to edit essays and things for you as long as they're written in English.

Bridget Huh

Charmaine Chang — Charmaine Chang is Lauren Chang's sister. Lauren is, in general, the insensitive sister. Lauren attended a workshop and got to use a power drill on an assortment of foam bones, and is now the proud owner of an assortment of foam femur, humerus and radius bones. Lauren has never cried at school. Lauren wishes that people would not send her articles that she has previously written for the Reckoner, because that was a different time and she was a different person. Lauren also goes by many different names, and answers to none of them at all. Nice to meet you.

Charmaine Chang

Chen Peng — Chen Peng is a member of the Web and App Development Board of the Reckoner. His favourite past times are playing basketball, reading manga, and using his phone. Lately, he has been desperately drinking his milk every day in the hopes of getting taller, although to no avail. Being a carnivorous homo sapiens, he likes his bowl of steamed rice with a big pile of juicy meat. Lastly, Chen would usually end his day by getting a large, milk green tea(from Teashop 168) with tapioca and no ice since that extra 0.066g/ml cubed of volume can make an incomprehensible difference.

Chen Peng

Christina Zhang — Christina Zhang is an illustrator for the Media Board at The Reckoner. Though she seems quiet at first, among her friends she is known for her spontaneous analogies, baking, and being an avid lover of all things ~smol~ and cute. Secretly though, she is envious of anyone who can function on less than 7 hours of sleep. Like many others, she loves food in general, but the one thing she can’t stand is pineapples on her pizza, which always sparks a heated debate. One day, she hopes she will be brave enough to watch a horror movie.

Christina Zhang

Conner Lee — Conner Lee is a writer for the editorial board, and finds joy in making sure everybody knows he's right. He's an enjoyable person to hang out with and will tell you his cringe worthy jokes that don't really relate to the discussion. This year Conner aims to stop procrastinating and finish his -

Conner Lee

Cynthia Wang — Cynthia Wang is a web and app developer for The Reckoner. When presented with a word count, she tries to fill up the number of words exactly so she isn’t criticized for writing too little or writing too much. If you find her texting in the hallway, 63.7% of the time she’s actually coding. She is a quiet person and prefers being alone in real life, but online, she’s a troll™ and a spammer if you know her very well. She is often found reading, eating, doing homework and obsessing over music, books and movies in her spare time.

Cynthia Wang

Derek Nguyen — Derek Nguyen is a member on The Reckoner’s Editorial board. He has a passion for the environment, classical music, and the sciences. He tries to do his part to keep climate change at bay, through his non-profit environmental projects. Derek always tries his best to help his classmates when he can, as he hates to see other people in distress. His favourite composer is Fryderyk Chopin, someone whom he greatly admires. Derek can say without hesitation that biology is his favourite strand of science. He is absolutely fascinated with the various forms and behaviours of life.

Derek Nguyen

Dylan Xiao — Dylan Xiao is part of the News Board at The Reckoner. He is known for making witty puns and his endless knowledge about roasting turkeys. Although Dylan is from the south, he rarely wears a jacket and almost never gets cold. He can be found dreaming about his next tennis win or catching up on sleep. If you ever see him holding something, watch out because he might drop it at any second.

Dylan Xiao

Elmirah Ahmad — Elmirah Ahmad, is a photographer for the Reckoner. She loves anything that involves taking pictures and doing creative things. Also known for having a sweet tooth and affection for soccer.

Elmirah Ahmad

Emily Lai — Emily Lai is a writer for the News and Life Boards of The Reckoner. In her spare time, she plays piano, reads classic novels, and laments about having no spare time. In another life, she imagines herself living quietly in the countryside with an abundance of good tea, books, and plenty of trees to read under. In her spare time, she can probably be found trying to understand new abbreviations found on social media.

Emily Lai

Eric Wang — Eric Wang is a writer for the Life Board at The Reckoner. He enjoys producing works of humor that often includes cringe-inducing moments born from hopefully relatable problems. This inspiration may have arisen from his binge watching of immature comedy on Netflix. Although Eric may not be at the apex of analytical or evidence-based writing, he strives to change that. In the meanwhile, he will continue his creation of stories without such confining restraints or boundaries.

Eric Wang

Eric Zhao — Eric is a Media Board Photographer and a Life Board Artist of The Reckoner. Eric enjoys photography and life. Eric always seems to be in a state of running. With every failed attempt at running in Sunnybrook Park or towards a productive lifestyle, Eric considers the possibility that a lifetime spent running is a lifetime riddled with misfortune.

Eric Zhao

Eric Shang — Eric Shang is a member on The Reckoner’s web board. When he is not conquering the world of competitive Scrabble™, he can be found watching streams of professional Super Smash Bros 4 or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as his preferred way of procrastination. If you see him in the halls during lunch, please remind him to finish his lunch for once in his life.

Eric Shang

Evan Woo — Evan is a member of the News and Photography Board at The Reckoner. He enjoys going out, listening to Spotify, going on YouTube deep dives, and has been trying to perfect his Konglish (Korean-English) accent from Kim’s Convenience for the past two years. Currently, he aspires to get better at volleyball, and spend less time on his phone (surely a daunting feat). Additionally, Evan is willing do anything for sleep or food, and although he misses breakfast almost every morning, when he does have the chance he culturally prepares his cereal by pouring the milk first.

Evan Woo

Evelyn Jiang — Evelyn Jiang is a Grade 9 writer for the News Board and photographer for the Media Board. She has an extreme addiction to bubble tea, pizza, procrastination, and a long list of other things that are bad for her. During her free time, she can most likely be found sleeping or mindlessly scrolling through something on her phone. Unfortunately, she hasn’t had time to enjoy any of these things recently, thanks to the never-ending onslaught of homework that she insists on completing at the last minute.

Evelyn Jiang

Gabriel Luo — Gabriel is part of the Print Development board of The Reckoner. When he is not busy staring at a computer screen, he loves to listen to music, swim, and make terrible jokes. He's always full of energy, with a bit too much at certain times.

Gabriel Luo

Glenda Zhai — Glenda is a member of the Outreach Board. Her interests include watching alarming amounts of Asian dramas, arranging music and cooking ramen. When she’s not complaining about how much work she has to do, Glenda is typically playing piano or doing laundry. She is gentle and caring, but will not tolerate any form of Hufflepuff-shaming. Hanging around Glenda tends to be quite unbearable because she will sing nonstop to weird, made-up lyrics. In her future, Glenda wishes to travel Europe to see the art and culture and/or finally beat Andrew Li at a round of TypeRacer.

Glenda Zhai

Hanlin Cheng — Hanlin Cheng is a print developer and illustrator at The Reckoner and a normal student in Marc Garneau. She absolutely despises having to wake up early in the morning to take the TTC and desperately avoids anything that has to do with the number six. Oftentimes when not trying to finish all the work that she procrastinated on, she likes to doodle on the margins of her planner or try to find a book that is actually interesting to read. She also doesn’t know what to write for her biography and so will end it abruptly at this point.

Hanlin Cheng

Hargun Kaur — Hargun Kaur is a news writer at the Reckoner. Her day starts off at 5am (6 on the weekends), sometimes with a workout, but usually with two hours of quiet time. She is a proud lover of rap, and just music in general, which explains why you'll never see her without her headphones. She also loves binging on Grey's Anatomy (just for McDreamy). Occasionally, she'll be learning how to cook or cramming for the next algeo test. If you see her in the hallway, remember to say "Hi." She'll always smile back, even if she has her headphones on.

Hargun Kaur

Hari Ilangomaran — Hari "Mango" Ilangomaran is a member of the Life Board and is in her senior year at Garneau. She firmly believes that life is better when outdoors, and is thus usually thinking about, talking about, writing about, or actually camping. Hari loves camping. Hari is also a fan of what some might call "grungey emo music," but it suits her just fine, thank you. Unfortunately, amongst her friends, she is often forced to play her "Socially Acceptable" playlist. In conclusion, hit up Hari's Spotify. Thanks.

Hari Ilangomaran

Harry Zhao — Harry is an editorial writer for the Reckoner. When Harry gets home from school, he sits at his desk and browses his laptop for seven hours before starting homework at 11pm. He often does little to no work in a group project and gets carried every single time. By the end of the semester, Harry hopes to attend at least half of the editorial board meetings and write an opinion piece that will probably offend a lot of people. Most likely though, he won’t get to it because he’ll be too busy planking while drinking milk.

Harry Zhao

Helen Lin — Helen is a member of the Print Development Board but she prefers to be called a Layout Designer. She's a dreamer and a doer but most of all, she's an overthinker. Her brain is always on the go. Even in her sleep. Because of this, Helen doesn't like watching plays, going to museums, or visiting art galleries because they're boring. So when she goes on vacation, her favourite past-time is walking around and looking at the architecture while immersing herself in the culture and society of the city. One day, Helen will hopefully learn how to successfully meditate.

Helen Lin

Helen Sun — Helen Sun is an Illustrator at the Reckoner. She considers herself a lover of whimsical and unrealistic things, such as books written like art, old yellow, thunderstorms, and time management. She does not know how to People™, so please be kind to her.Attachments area

Helen Sun

Henry Tang — Henry is a news writer for The Reckoner. His three favourite things in life include sleep, Pokémon, physics, not necessarily in that order. He finds it strange that not everybody shares his love for the latter two. After all, who doesn’t want to find out how the world works? And more importantly, who doesn’t dream about casting illusions like Zoroark or predicting the future like Gothitelle? Nobody? Just him? OK…

Henry Tang

Henry Ren — Henry Ren is a developer and a member of the Print Board at The Reckoner. He has solved in total 2 DMOJ questions since last year and currently has 5 points. He enjoys problem-solving, reading and looking at a wall for 30 minutes only to realise that has an essay to write. He has the amazing ability to create awkward situations out of nowhere. Yet, he still enjoys helping others the most he can. He always tries his hardest (whether to succeed or to “strategically” fail) and can easily be distrac- look a butterfly!

Henry Ren

India Das-Brown — India is a Life writer for the Reckoner. Ironically, she does often think of getting her life together, then simply laughs aloud for imagining something so ludicrous. Despite these frequent fits of laughter, India is truly a bitter person. She is regularly observed unleashing her inner torment onto those around her. On occasion, in the hypothetical case of free time, India can be found sleeping, procrastinating or raiding your cupboards.

India Das-Brown

Ivy Ding — Ivy Ding is a writer for the News Board and Life Board of The Reckoner. She is usually staring off into space contemplating her existence and overthinking awkward social interactions no one really remembers anymore. When she's not doodling all over her notes or putting off all her work until the night before it's due, Ivy can be found crying over her math homework with some bubble tea.

Ivy Ding

Ivy Lin — Ivy is a News Writer at The Reckoner. She is a perfectionist and can often be found in her natural habitat, the ice rink, persistent on landing her next jump. Ivy also loves bubble tea, in a sense where it can described as an obsession, although she likes tell herself there's no addiction . If not at seen at the school, rink, or bubble tea place, Ivy will almost always be asleep at home, as it is her favorite pastime. Attachments area

Ivy Lin

Jacqueline Huo — Jacqueline is a news writer for The Reckoner. Her free time is spent playing ukulele and catching up on sleep. Jacqueline’s life may be messy and chaotic, but not as messy as her room. At school, you will probably see her browsing memes instead of studying. In fact, if you see relatable memes, please send them her way. She can often be found with her phone in her hand, replying to her DM’s right away and trying to find the perfect playlist for any activity. In the end, however, her music choices are a heavy rotation of Hamilton and Taylor Swift.

Jacqueline Huo

Janet Chen — Janet is a photographer for the Reckoner. She might seem soft-spoken at first, but don’t be fooled: you will quickly learn that she doesn’t really understand the concept of an “indoor voice”. She loves puns and will say any that come to mind—if you ask her nicely (or if you spend any amount of time around her), she’ll even tell you one. She fancies herself a music buff (Beethoven? More like BAEthoven), and her greatest love is Bernard, her viola. Although she has many aspirations, her deepest desire is to someday be as tall as her friends.

Janet Chen

Jeffrey Qiu — Jeffrey Qiu is an editorial writer at The Reckoner. As a passionate hockey player, he loves being on the ice and thrives in Canada's fifth season. Besides that he doesn’t really have any other hobbies but generally enjoys anything that isn’t school related. You’ll always know when he's around due to his energetic and outgoing personality, whether he’s goofing off with friends or vehemently explaining why the Leafs won’t make it past the second round. Also don’t bring up how unattractive his bleached hair is, he knows already.

Jeffrey Qiu

Jennifer Yu — Jennifer is an Outreach member of the Reckoner. Some of her favourite things to do include binge-watching My Little Pony and keeping up with the latest memes on r/DunderMifflin. Even though Jennifer is in Grade 11, you might find that it is easier to get her attention by calling "niner" or even "sevener" if you're lucky. Unfortunately for her, the length of her biography is representative of her height in real life, but as Kevin Malone once said - "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick? "

Jennifer Yu

Jennifer Liang — Jennifer Liang is a developer at The Reckoner. When she’s not being keen or waste or deciding her place on the spectrum of keenness, you’ll find her joking around with her friends down the hall. She enjoys reading and going down youtube rabbit holes, and her favourite subject would have been physics, that is if the course hadn't been in the mornings. Evidently, she isn't a morning person. She finds that she babbles a lot about nonsense, which probably explains why this bio is all over the place.

Jennifer Liang

Jessica Guo — Jessica Guo is a News writer at The Reckoner. Known for her ability to sleep almost anywhere, Jessica is still trying to figure out which incentives will get people to walk to Eglinton with her. (Baiting people with food and drinks from Tim’s has proven to be the best approach so far.) She loves listening to music and hopes that her future financial status will allow her the luxury of Spotify Premium without pretending to be in a family with her classmates. And no, even if she wanted to, she can’t give you any more money.

Jessica Guo

Jessica Xiong — Jessica Xiong is a News Board writer and a Photographer for The Reckoner. She is a Grade 10 student who aspires to make the world a better place and to stop procrastinating (but she always leaves that for another day). She enjoys playing the violin, swimming, attempting to take artsy photos, and playing with her two cats. In the rare opportunity of something called “Free Time,” she can be found madly trying to catch up on TV shows and Webtoons while eating junk food, spamming her “friends” online, and taking long naps.

Jessica Xiong

Justin Ye — Justin is a photographer and print layout designer for the Reckoner. He spends most of his time on his computer; while Justin claims this is for homework, more often than not he is surfing YouTube or editing that latest batch of photos. On the rare occasions that he manages to pull himself away from the screen, Justin spends his time grinding through the last 400 meters of a cross-country race or hidden among a group of boisterous friends playing Uno. Still, despite the crowds around him, Justin’s large backpack and camera bag make him hard to miss.

Justin Ye

Katherine Ma — Katherine Ma is a life writer on The Reckoner. She is only writing this bio because Emma is bugging her about it, but she would very much like to mention that she likes cereal. And you (the reader) should too.

Katherine Ma

Laura Lu — There are no other words that describe Laura Lu better than “a child at heart”. Oftentimes, her lively spirit leads her to jumping into big piles of leaves and onto unkempt beds. She spends an unusual amount of time aimlessly exploring (and getting lost) in the city, browsing dog pages, and catching up on the latest Youtube gossip. However, this year, she is intent on curing her uncompromising board-em, so you’ll find her on layout and taking pictures around the school for the Reckoner. With a - rather unfortunate - tendency to laugh loudly, it’s quite likely that you’ll hear her in the halls before you can even see her.Attachments area

Laura Lu

Lauren Liu — Lauren Liu is a member of the Illustrations Board at the Reckoner. She enjoys listening to music, playing basketball, and playing the French horn. She is a hardworking person at heart but she can also be a procrastinator at times. Besides school work and extracurricular activities, she can be found reading a good novel, eating yummy food, or watching many movies and television shows on Netflix in her spare time. In the future, she hopes to travel more often and learn more from experiences that are yet to come.

Lauren Liu

Linda Cai — Niner member of the outreach team, a huge fan of Gravity falls and a sweet savage. It is a great pleasure for Linda to forage tasty food; in order to fulfil this life goal she congregated a list of restaurants that she plans to visit one day in life. Loves interacting with others, loves observing others (definitely not judging, and would like to jump off a staircase one day ). It is great to be part of the Eighth Guard, and you can refer to her as Linda Vegetable since her last name is Cai.

Linda Cai

Maimuna Akhter — Maimuna Akhter is a member of the Outreach Board at The Reckoner. In attempt to be optimistic, she is looking forward to her future, but may change her mind in a couple of minutes. Maimuna is currently unemployed, half-asleep, and changing her mind. Her hobbies include drawing imperfect circular geometric spirals, attempting to bake, biking, and crocheting. She is quite amicable, except when sleep-deprived. The optimal amount of sleep for her ranges from 12-15 hours.

Maimuna Akhter

Marzan Hamid — Marzan is an Editorial writer at the Reckoner. She enjoys watching cooking videos for hours on end, pondering paradoxical theories and signing her name with permanent marker on practically every surface she can find. She hoards millions of pairs of sunglasses, many of which she never dares to wear -- because she's too chicken. When she isn’t baking, arguing, or watching horror movies, she is usually complaining. She is always smiling and laughing about inside jokes with her friends, even if she is running on one hour of sleep (which is most of the time). Attachments area

Marzan Hamid

Michelle Wang — Michelle is a Life Writer and a member of the Outreach Board. She frequently questions the school’s decision to accept her into Tops, but hopes they never realise it was a mistake. It’s only the second month of highschool and she’s already procrastinated enough to last her lifetime, but will definitely continue anyway. Michelle can always be found not knowing what the homework is and doing it way after midnight. When she isn’t being crazy and weird, she is probably being sad and contemplating life. Do not worry, she is still a teenager after all.

Michelle Wang

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Mohammed Mir

Molly Yu — Molly Yu is an illustrator for The Reckoner. She enjoys drawing, playing piano, swimming, performing experiments, and making others happy. Although she often has little to say, she has a lot on her mind. Ironically, talking and listening to others gives her energy, but too much talking will quickly tire her out. She may seem spontaneous, random, and perplexing, but rest assured. She is perfectly abnormal.

Molly Yu

Nelson Lee — Nelson Lee is an Outreach and Editorial member at Marc Garneau CI. Whether it is discovering cheap fries at Costco or inventing the perfect test-shredding machine, Nelson likes going on adventures and delving into exciting issues. If Nelson isn't in bed by eight reading bedtime stories to himself, he spends his time advocating for the little guy and helping his school become a better place, piece by piece, step by step. So when Nelson stumbles upon people who devote their energy to something bigger than themselves, his eyes may tinker from discovering something so spectacular.

Nelson Lee

Nicole Peri Kologlu — Nicole Kologlu is a writer for the Editorial Board. Her interests are “funky” socks and adopting at least 39 cats by the time she is 80. She spends her time drawing, reading, and listening to her favourite albums over and over again. She looks very shy and calm, however she is very extroverted and just doesn’t know how to react to crowded areas.

Nicole Peri Kologlu

Nisha Iqbal — Nisha Iqbal is a member of the Outreach Board at the Reckoner. In her spare time, she loves to eat, and lose herself in books. Once she picks up a book, she probably won’t put it down till she is finished. Moreover, Nisha is exceptionally skilled in procrastinating and not getting enough sleep. She is known for being an energetic and outgoing person and of course, her obsession with Iced Capps.

Nisha Iqbal

Rayyan Esmail — Rayyan is an editorial writer at the Reckoner, who can be found at school worrying about his English mark, canoeing when he should be at school, at home watching some sports game no one cares about, on the bus listening to podcasts, at a hospital constantly waiting, swimming in ice-cold water, following obscure elections on the other side of the country, on a baseball diamond yelling at coaches, trying to convince his friends to switch to macOS, or most likely at his computer writing really long sentences.

Rayyan Esmail

Rena Liu — Rena Liu is a Grade 9 News writer for the Reckoner. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, drawing, coding, playing piano, and catching up on the latest chapter of her favourite manga. If you see her in the library during a spare period, chances are she is sleep-deprived and will not be responsive whatsoever.

Rena Liu

Roger Li — Roger Li is an artist for the Life Board. Wherever possible, he likes adding creative flairs to everything he does. Roger tends to dream up amazing personal project ideas, but finds that they’re never quite realistic enough. A great example of this is when he was tasked to write a creative biography in under a hundred words. Roger gets too attached to all his ideas like rhymes, puns, or fancy language. He then tries to find a way to reconcile them all, finding that a hundred words is not nearly enough. Feeling overwhelmed, he decides to leave it for tomorrow. Attachments area

Roger Li

Ryan Chang — Ryan Chang is a grade 10 writer on the Editorial Board. When he isn’t smiling to conceal the pain of the math test he just wrote, Ryan can be spotted being super addicted to a trendy mobile game, laughing way too hard at mediocre jokes, as well as using s u p e r c o o l catch-phrases like “AWESOME POSSUM!” He’s made up of 10% Philadelphia roll, 30% trying to be keen, 50% useless trivia about Gundam, and 110% being way too tall for his own good!

Ryan Chang

Sadia Akbar — Sadia Akbar is a News writer for The Reckoner who evidently loves coffee and leather jackets.

Sadia Akbar

Sophie Yang — Sophie Yang is an Illustrator for the Reckoner‘s media board. She is irritable when lacking sleep (which is always) and friendly if offered free food, hears new music from her favorite artists, or finds another joyful soul who shares her lousy sense of humour. Arguably one of the biggest One Direction fans you’ll ever meet, she can be found in her free time making fan art, testing out new recipes, and looking for new hobbies to try.

Sophie Yang

Sumedh Dhanvanthry — Sumedh Dhanvanthry is a Grade 9 Life Board writer. When he’s not staring into space in class, he can be found staring into space on the TTC and at home. His hobbies include watching superhero movies, attempting to learn various musical instruments, and trying his best to understand politics. If you run into Sumedh in the halls, there is a chance that he is in deep concentration, trying to access another plane of reality.

Sumedh Dhanvanthry

Tina Wei — Tina Wei is a writer for the Life and Editorial Boards at The Reckoner. When she isn't destroying her eardrums with loud rock music, she enjoys binging entire seasons of Netflix shows and noveling, also known as sitting in front of a blank screen in front of her laptop as she browses the web. In her spare time, she also likes to eat shredded cheese right out of the bag and try to force her brain into producing serotonin.

Tina Wei

Tina Ma — Tina Ma is a writer for the Editorial Board at the Reckoner. She starts her mornings by spilling milk from the pitcher, then proceeding to clean her spills up before leaving for school. Tina is a biG baller, but only watches NBA games when Jeremy Lin is playing. At school, Tina is constantly looking for her phone because she knows she needs to reply to everyone she left on read last night. She typically responds to uninteresting DM’s within 1 to 2 business weeks. But hey, don’t hesitate to send her a message; she’ll get back to you 😉

Tina Ma

Tom Liu — Tom Liu is a Grade 11 news writer at the Reckoner. He enjoys playing badminton, going on long runs, and gaming on his (outdated and recently dropped on the ground) Macbook Air. Tom is generally a fun and optimistic person and there isn’t much that can really irritate him. His only real pet peeves are limited to eggplants, cosine law, running out of time, people who talk too much, people who don’t talk enough, waking up early, awkwardly worded questions, vague instructions, losing things, and weird desks that are angled at forty five degrees while being simultaneously connected to the chair. As you can tell, it is pretty difficult to make Tom upset.

Tom Liu

Umar Yousafzai — Umar Yousafzai is an editorial writer for The Reckoner. His hobbies include baking, hiking, watching old movies and daydreaming about his childhood. He is always trying to meet deadlines as he is an avid procrastinator. Umar also enjoys programming and he likes to volunteer to share this passion. He can often be found listening to music, reading or being lost on Quora. One day, he would like to meet his favourite actor, Rowan Atkinson. Umar is deeply interested in politics and technology and is amused by the fact that you didn’t notice he copied his bio from last year

Umar Yousafzai

Urooba Shaikh — Urooba Shaikh is a Grade 10 student at MGCI and a news writer for The Reckoner. She can usually be found with her nose in a book, completely oblivious to her surroundings. In her spare time she likes to do many things that she is not good at, such as playing sports, writing poetry, singing, painting, and playing the piano. The three things she loves most in the world are food, books, and sleep. She hopes to one day write something that will make the world a better place.

Urooba Shaikh

Zoe Cheng — Zoe Cheng is part of the illustrations board for the Eighth Guard of The Reckoner. She is self-taught in art for the most part, with an exception of oil painting. She loves to spend time outdoors and taking in scenic views, but also spend time inside drumming, painting, or reading a book. She loves to read, especially fantasy novels and has taken an interest in biomedical sciences. Zoe one day hopes to be able to apply her art skills somewhere as a hobby when she graduates and wants to pursue a career in biomedical engineering.

Zoe Cheng

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