My roses and thorns of Winnipeg
As I get ready to leave Winnipeg, it feels only right to offer a final, deeply subjective assessment of the city. This is not a…
Kyra Campbell
The worst of 2003 is back
I was only two years old in 2003, but looking back, it is hard to shake the feeling that we are back there again, only this…
Who decided your degree was worthless?
For years, students in the arts, humanities, environmental studies and other degrees that do not lead neatly to one obvious job have been met with…
Bill 48 manages appearances, not addiction
What does it mean for Bill 48 to label detention as “care” when it allows 72-hour holds without a criminal charge? This bill is a…
Hockey played politics, then claimed it was ‘just a game’
The Canadian men’s and women’s hockey losses at the Olympics were rough to watch. However, the fallout that followed quickly took centre stage, pushing hockey…
When the Olympics edit the world out of frame
The Winter Olympics sell the same fantasy every four years — that sport can float above the world, as if the world will politely pause…
A case for the love letter
A handwritten letter makes you choose your words, and that choice is a kind of devotion. The moment is almost always the same — a pen,…
Canada’s arms exports are hitting closer to home
Canada’s arms export story is usually told as an overseas one. This story is not wrong, but it is incomplete. A large part of Canada’s…
I do not want children, I have Heated Rivalry
Every few months, a government discovers that its birth rate is falling and reacts as if it has just found a crack in the foundation….
Blue Monday meets a rough Jets season
January always feels like a grind here in Winnipeg. The days are short, routines feel heavier and even when nothing goes wrong, everything still takes…