The Cannon (Magazine)

The Cannon is the official magazine of the University of Toronto Engineering Society. Established in 1978 as a serious newspaper, it serves the undergraduate students of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. The Cannon became a magazine in 2022, with a circulation of up to 1500 across the University of Toronto campus. It is one of two publications funded by the Engineering Society (the other being the Toike Oike).

History

(still a work-in-progress)

1977

The Engineering Society identified the need to expose the Faculty's professional and technical achievements to the engineering community. They resolved to introduce a more serious newspaper to contrast the more humorous newspaper, the Toike Oike.

1978: First Issue

The first issue of The Cannon is published in September. The newspaper was published every week that the Toike Oike was not.

1979-80

The publication schedule became monthly, as weekly publications were too demanding for staff.

1980-81

The Cannon was mailed to every student engineering society in Canada, to Ontario high schools, and to several alumni. Regular content included Society news and technical articles.

2011-2013

1T1-1T2 and 1T2-1T3 were noted as bad years for The Cannon newspaper, where publications were intermittent or lacking.

Yerusha Nuh, VP Communications 1T2-1T3, writes about the trouble in the January 2013 printed issue, with the announcement of establishing an online Cannon as its front page. Troubles mentioned included lack of commitment from staff members to dedicate to a regular publishing schedule, possible dying readership of printed issues as changing times called more for easier online access and social media integration, and the disappearance of 1T2-1T3 Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Vijay Unnithan from his responsibilities.

2013-2014

The Cannon (led by Co-Editors Ashkan Parcham-Kashani and Luke Household) ran their cannon.skule.ca website for a full school year as the online source of news around Skule, but also published 3 printed issues for distribution (F!rosh/September, January, and Post-EngSoc Elections/April)

2022-2023

The Cannon transitioned to a magazine format in October 2022. The magazine was generally well-received by the community.

2023-2024

The Cannon scaled its publish rate down to three issues a year to reflect the longer publishing cycle of a magazine.

Contributions and Research by Stephanie Fata, Ashkan Parcham-Kashani; compiled by Catherine Tran

Past Editors

Most recent publications can be found at: https://issuu.com/cannon.mag

Past publications can be found at: https://issuu.com/thecannon

Year	Editor		Publications
2024-2025	Tobin Zheng	MSE 2T4 + PEY
2023-2024	Navin Vanderwert	NΨ 2T4 + PEY
2022-2023	Natalia Espinosa-Merlano	Mech 2T3+PEY
2021-2022
2020-2021	Alyson Allen	MSE 2T1+PEY
2019-2020	Rick Liu	Civ 1T9+PEY
2018-2019	Najah Hassan	NΨ 1T9+PEY
2017-2018	Dale Gottlieb	MSE 1T7+1+PEY
2016-2017	Lu Chen	Indy 1T8
2015-2016	Edgar Wang	ECE 1T7
2014-2015	Sarita Chiu	Chem 1T4+PEY
2013-2014	Ashkan Parcham-Kashani	NΨ 1T4+PEY
2012-2013	Vijay Unnithan**/Luke Household	?
2011-2012	Betari Prakoso	?
2010-2011	Nicole Deen	?
2009-2010	Huda Idrees	?
2008-2009	Alanna Yontef	MECH 0T9+PEY
2007-2008	Kirill Zubovsky	INDY 0T9+PEY
2006-2007	Asha Hagiwara	MECH 0T8
2005-2006	Jeff Harris	MECH 0T6+PEY
2004-2005	?	?
2003-2004	?	?
2002-2003	?	?
2000-2001	?	?
1999-2000	?	?

**Recalled from the Board of Directors

Past Publications

Written as Volume-Issue
S denotes Special Edition

V1	V2	V3	V4	V5	V11	V13	V15	V17	V19	V21	V22	V23	V25	V27	V29	V31	V33	V35	V36	V37	V38	V39	V40
1-1	2-1	3-1	4-1	5-1	6-1	7-1	8-1	9-1	10-1	11-1		12-1		14-1	15-1	16-1	17-1
1-2	2-2	3-2	4-2	5-2	6-2	7-2	8-2	9-2	10-2	11-2		12-2	13-2	14-2	15-2	16-2	17-2
1-3	2-3	3-3	4-3	5-3	6-3	7-3	8-3	9-3	10-3	11-3		12-3	13-3	14-3	15-3	16-3	17-3
1-4	2-4	3-4	4-4	5-4	6-4	7-4	8-4	9-4	10-4			12-4	13-4	14-4	15-4	16-4	17-4
1-5	2-5	3-5	4-5	5-5	6-5	7-5	8-5	9-5	10-5			12-5	13-5	14-5	15-5	16-5	17-5
1-6	2-6	3-6	4-6	5-6	6-6	7-6	8-6			11-6				14-6	15-6	17-6
1-7	2-7	3-7	4-7	5-7	6-7	7-7				11-7				14-7	15-7
1-8		3-8	4-8	5-8	6-S1	7-8							14-8	15-8
1-9					6-S2
					6-8

External Links

The Cannon at the UofT Archives