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Student loans: the less you have, the more you have to...
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Bilan Arte
Canada currently uses provincial and federal student loans as a way to increase the accessibility of our post-secondary education system. The idea is simple: lump sums of money are provided to students from...
Winnipeg Zombie Walk cancellation indicates unattainable regulations
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Foster Lyle, staff
A few short weeks ago it was announced that Winnipeg’s annual Zombie Walk would not occur this year. The event, which attracts thousands of Winnipeg residents to dress as the “undead” and...
Mental health and poverty
By
Bruce Tefft
It is a well-established fact that rates of mental disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, schizophrenia) within the general population are strongly correlated with income. In other words, as individual incomes decrease, rates of mental...
Re: ‘UMSU removed CFS promotional materials from day-timers’
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As a past president of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), I would like to correct some misinformation that was posted in the article “UMSU removed CFS promotional materials from day timers” printed...
PST’d off
By
Caleigh MacDonald
Entrepreneur Robert Half once said, “People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.” This is a sentiment personified...
Bloody hypocrisy
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Bradly Wohlgemuth, staff
"Blood. It’s in you to give.”
Apparently it’s not inside everybody for giving – for example, someone like me, a bisexual male.
According to the rules set by Health Canada, I will not be...
Over-regulating the small guy
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Earlier this month, the Manitoba Agriculture-Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) collected and is currently slated to destroy thousands of dollars of agricultural product from a small family farm in southern Manitoba. MAFRI claims that...



