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Changing the balance of power
By
Tariq Sohail, volunteer staff
Over the past couple of decades, especially in the last 10 years, Canadians have become more disengaged from parliament. Fifty-five per cent of Canadians surveyed recently were pleased with how Canadian...
Myths about Mandela
By
Brian Latour
With the death of Nelson Mandela on Dec. 5, the world lost an interesting political figure and a powerful leader in the struggle against racism and colonialism.
Mandela was a political figure who was...
Growing health gap a concern for poor Manitobans
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Seamus Hamilton-Pattison, volunteer staff
Given the rate modern medicine progresses, it should come as no surprise that overall, health in our province has been improving. Since approximately 1985, for example, the number of tuberculosis hospitalizations...
“Nerd” is not an insult
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Connor Duff
Nerd. In high school, who didn’t dread being called that?
Well, on the contrary, “nerd” isn’t some degrading insult that everyone will find offensive. If you call a good amount of high...
Polar bears don’t belong in captivity
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Chris Hearn, volunteer staff
Why do we humans love to play the role of God or Mother Nature? What gives us the right to decide the fate and future of every other living thing on...
A short guide to using language thoughtfully
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I have a lot of friends who regularly use terms like “that’s so gay” or “that’s retarded.” These friends are generally intelligent, compassionate people, who do not at all think of themselves as homophobic,...
Letter to the editor: ‘Dialogue’ and censorship
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Brian Latour
In recent weeks, the anti-racist student group Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) has once again had its student group status revoked by UMSU – this time, from the Student Group Promotions and Affairs...





