Elena Massing

Features Editor

Elena is The Ubyssey’s current features editor and 2023–2025 culture editor, and a fourth-year student in opera and information studies. She won the Canadian University Press's 2024 Arts and Culture Writing Award and 2025 Community Service Reporting Award. She's most interested in reporting on the performing arts, queerness and health. Send tips to e.massing@ubyssey.ca and features-related pitches or inquiries to features@ubyssey.ca.

Jazz was never meant to be monothematic — the nature of the genre is experimental and giving. In their freshman album, Raagaverse is taking advantage of this malleability by infusing classical Hindustani vocality with the improv and complexity of jazz to pave their own silky and microtonal rhythm.

There’s an entire community working together, and through child-sized, yet critical steps, UBC Child Care is nurturing inclusivity in a new generation — at a price people can afford.

Ozempic, like Wegovy and Rybelsus, is part of a group of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes called glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists. They are successful in helping diabetics control their blood sugar levels, but users noticed another unexpected effect during clinical trials: they were experiencing significant weight loss.

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