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A letter from a travel-weary student returning to Winnipeg during global...

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Tom Chakraborty
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...
Jenelle McCann
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Restrictions on snowbirds prompt open season on vulnerable travellers

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Liam R. Forrester
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...
Jenelle McCann
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‘COVID fatigue’ may be getting the best of us, but now...

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Grace Gyolai
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister warned government appointees Feb. 1 if they travel outside of designated zones “for leisure purposes,” they will be terminated. This is a new stance taken nearly a year into the...
Dallin Chicoine
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The private production of COVID-19 vaccines represents a moral failure of...

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Lucas Edmond
As Canada enters its second month of the tenuous COVID-19 vaccine rollout, citizens are becoming unnerved by its disorganized distribution. Although impatience is surfacing, slow distribution was predicted by the federal government. Earlier in...
Dallin Chicoine
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UMSU’s adoption of the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism defends settler colonialism

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Cam Cannon
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...
Jenelle McCann
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Maclean’s ‘Power List’ pushes narratives that are damaging to social justice...

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Lucas Edmond
"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....
Jenelle McCann
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Canada will not fight for the Keystone XL pipeline despite pressure...

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Liam R. Forrester
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made a bad bet and it looks like the house is about to clean him out. On his first day in office, U.S. President Joe Biden signed 15 executive orders...
Dallin Chicoine

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Aiden Peters resigns as UMSU VP external

UMSU’s vice-president external affairs Aiden Peters resigned from his...
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