A letter from a travel-weary student returning to Winnipeg during global lockdowns
After my two-year hiatus in India, in which I had to tend to my ill parents, I finally decided to travel back to Winnipeg, where…
Jenelle McCann
Restrictions on snowbirds prompt open season on vulnerable travellers
We warned them, but they did not listen. After months of escalating restrictions, multiple lockdowns, and the government all but begging Canadians not to travel,…
UMSU’s adoption of the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism defends settler colonialism
Recently, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism in collaboration with Hillel Winnipeg, a…
Legal aid in the works for UMSU members
Current UMSU executives are making good on campaign promises made during last year’s election by taking steps toward creating a legal aid program accessible to…
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The best love songs are not romantic — instead, they say something about romance. Sometimes they are about friends or parents or children or pets…
Jets land Dubois but ship out Laine in the process
The Winnipeg Jets made a blockbuster trade on the morning of Jan. 23 that sent superstar sniper Patrik Laine to the Columbus Blue Jackets along…
Maclean’s ‘Power List’ pushes narratives that are damaging to social justice movements
“Few moments have challenged our understanding of power as profoundly as the one we’re in,” reads the opening sentence of Maclean’s recent “Power List.” Of…
Systemic racism in Canadian health care is hurting Indigenous people and it must be addressed
Leaders from Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, a non-profit political advocacy organization, and its northern branch, Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin, met with government officials and health-care partners last…
Cuts to the enhanced operating grants in Manitoba daycares signal an escalating crisis facing low-income parents
As an ex-daycare worker, I have seen firsthand how hard early childhood educators (ECE) in the public sector work to keep their facilities afloat with…
Shared Health offers apology to ‘frustrated’ applicants
Shared Health has offered an apology to “anyone who may have felt frustrated during the application and onboarding process,” in an email statement to the…