On campus news, Karuhogo’s UMSU and Palestine
What, exactly, is the point of a student newspaper? I joined the Manitoban as an arts & culture reporter in the fall of 2022 to…
Jessie Krahn
Re-assess mental illness after Aaron Bushnell
25-year-old U.S. military member Aaron Bushnell died of burn injuries after self-immolating and shouting “free Palestine” in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C….
Look to other university strikes when U of M is quiet
Having lived through UMFA’S 2016 and 2021 strikes as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, I like to keep my ear to the ground…
U of M and UMSU sweep aside anti-Palestinian racism
UMSU and the University of Manitoba’s wilful and continuous ignoring of both the genocide of Palestinians, and the way the genocide has come to affect…
Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for it
I pour love into all of my relationships. But as I’ve written before, I don’t think love is divorced from society’s ills. After years —…
We owe Afolabi Stephen Opaso remembrance and action
Right at the year’s close, news that 19-year-old U of M international student Afolabi Stephen Opaso was killed by police on Dec. 31, 2023 shook…
ULTRA X’MAS for the holiday disinclined
Holidays bring out the grinch in me, but not because I’m a cynic. I’m a sentimental crybaby and I get drunk off social energy, despite…
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians,…
The spectre of fascism haunts hatred of kids
I was chatting with some guests at a wedding when a few kids trotted past the table where we were swilling wine. Someone scoffed and…
The trap of inclusivity
Society is awful — homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, misogynistic, imperialistic and classist too. With this horrible cloud clogging up our social stratosphere, institutions jostling to…