David Bowie is dead: it was bound to happen eventually
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If you have Facebook, you know that David Bowie is dead. News of his death spread quickly through that lowest common denominator of communication, and lingered on in print newspapers like the stench of...
Brian Bowman: leader by default
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Brian Bowman is 14 months into a job that he put himself forward as best candidate for. He was elected based not on demonstrated service to our city, but based on the kind of...
The lack of meaning in Christmas
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What do yoga and Christmas have in common? Both are ancient, both are deeply spiritual, and both have been swallowed by the gaping wound that exists in place of our collective soul. Our consumer...
Darkness in the City of Light
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Paris has loomed large in my mind the past few months. In Paris, on Nov. 30, the COP21 climate talks will convene. These talks must succeed. If they do not then we do not...
‘World-class’ is going a bit far
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In a full-page trumpeting of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive’s accomplishments, UMSU president Jeremiah Kopp refers to the renovations begun and planned to the hallway on the third floor of University...
Foraging for food
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We all have to eat; we might as well eat well.
Eating well can be more than a strict fixation on carbs, sugars, gluten, or whatever else it is we’re supposed to be extra-worried about...
Putting poutine in its place
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You may have noticed that, for some time, there’s been a food truck parked on campus. A welcome relief from the unrelenting mediocrity of campus food services (though I’ve yet to actually see anyone...
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