Going Deep with Jodie Layne
This week’s column is based on a question from a reader and will be answered in two parts! Check back next week for the followup….
2014
Monetary policy, debt, and unions
Kevin Linklater, staff Following the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the Canadian economy was held up as a model in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Point/Counterpoint
Foster Lyle, staff Take any finance course and you will hear that a free market is an efficient market. A free market is one where…
Point/Counterpoint
Katerina Tefft, staff Free-market capitalism, as economist Karl Polanyi famously writes in The Great Transformation, is a “stark utopia” that “could not exist for any…
Dream Big
Campus will be bustling this week with lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions for Dream Big, a series of events that brings together major figures in space…
UMSU general elections 2014 preliminary results
UMSU general election preliminary results are in. From the official website of the chief returning officer: President Al Turnbull – 3375 Charly Wreggit – 1486…
What’s one vote worth?
What is your vote worth in the UMSU election? Is it worth voting at all? The answer to the former is crucial to addressing the…
Fusion
If elected, would you change anything about the Health and Dental plan next year? Charly Wreggitt, president: There were so many complaints when it first…
Refresh
If elected, would you change anything about the Health and Dental plan next year? Al Turnbull, president: The big thing we’d like to change, and…
Polling stations in new places
This year will mark the first UMSU general election for which polling stations are available at certain locations across the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry…