New Campus Liberals group rounds out political spectrum
The Campus Liberals are joining the Campus Greens and the Campus Conservatives as a new political student group this year. Liberals have not been represented…
2010
UMSU disability website goes live
On Sept. 23, the doors opened to a new home for students living with disabilities on the World Wide Web, at umsudisability.ca. The new UMSU…
Take back the night reclaims Winnipeg streets
Hundreds of people holding candles took to the streets of downtown Winnipeg on Sept. 30 for Take Back the Night, a worldwide march held in…
CFS aims to get students out to the polls
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has launched a campaign aimed at getting more students to polls in the upcoming municipal election. The Students Vote…
Commonwealth games reveal disparity
During the next two weeks, over 7,000 athletes will compete in the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. The games have been described as an…
Your world, your voice
This is the second year of the Manitoban’s International Comment section. Last year was a great success, as many diverse voices were heard, lively debates…
Migrant agricultural workers in Canada
Ralston White and Paul Roach, both migrant workers from Jamaica working on an Ontario apple farm, died from inhaling toxic fumes recently. Although an investigation…
LiLo, LiLo, it’s off to jail you go
Two weeks in a U.S. prison should be enough to scare a young woman straight and enable her to see the error of her ways….
Letters to the Editor
RE: GUNS, GUNS, GUNS (SEPT. 29, 2010 ISSUE) Why are Manitoba Conservative MPs so proud of their political grandstanding over the gun registry? The prime…
Refuting “A refusal to face reality”
Spencer Fernando had me at, “As the world recovers from the global financial crises, governments are beginning to realize that there are deeper flaws in…