A letter from a travel-weary student returning to Winnipeg during global...
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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 I belong. I have been a student and called...
Restrictions on snowbirds prompt open season on vulnerable travellers
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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, some folks went and did it anyway. Now their...
UMSU’s adoption of the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism defends settler colonialism
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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 Jewish student organization.
While I applaud UMSU in its efforts...
Legal aid in the works for UMSU members
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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 all UMSU members.
UMSU is considering taking up legal aid...
’Toban tracks
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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 or music itself. Sometimes they are desperate. Sometimes they...
Jets land Dubois but ship out Laine in the process
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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 with Jack Roslovic. in exchange, the Jets received Pierre-Luc...
Maclean’s ‘Power List’ pushes narratives that are damaging to social justice...
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"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 course, the magazine was referring to the COVID-19 pandemic....
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