Ally training offered at the U of M
Last week, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), the UMSU Womyn’s Centre, and the Rainbow Pride Mosaic (RPM) jointly organized and held part one…
2014
NDP tax move not cut and dry
Senior citizens in Manitoba will soon be paying a reduced amount of yearly provincial tax as Greg Selinger’s NDP government makes good on a 2011…
Benjamin Klass, Open Media, and the CRTC
Taking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) up on an open offer to all citizen groups, Open Media, a British Columbia-based advocacy group for…
National news briefs
Military issues memo on whistleblowers Lt.-Gen. Marquis Haines of the Canadian army distributed a memo to service members recently announcing his commitment to disciplining service…
Canadian food just barely safe enough for America
A report recently released by American health inspectors said that Canadian food is safe enough to be exported – but barely. The report, written in 2012…
U of M Bangladeshi students and grads protest violence against religious minorities
Violence and turmoil rocked Bangladesh leading up to, and during the national parliamentary elections held Jan. 5. A group of U of M alumni and…
Science competition needs funding to survive in Manitoba
Science literacy among youth is a phenomenal asset to have, and one that this country has been accumulating due to contributions from various science-and-community programs….
Storytelling in the Park
Winnipeg is about to become the birthplace of a new format for live storytelling that will broadcast over the airwaves. Tales are told together, recorded,…
“Find escape in music / That no one can defeat”
I would expect an EP with the word “Basement” in the title, recorded by the band members themselves, to be a sparse sketch of a few…
Going Deep with Jodie Layne
I generally think resolutions are stupid: we all pledge some variation of the same vague things we think we should be doing to be a more…