The Cannon (Magazine)

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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

Current 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