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A race-conscious critique of The Lord of the Rings films
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Over the break I had a movie marathon of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films. I ended up watching the franchise four times within a week, and through every viewing I was...
Let’s abolish the Senate already
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Canada is technically a constitutional monarchy, but the king is more like a figurehead, and really, is not that important in the grand scheme of things.
Rather, Canada, for all intents and purposes, is a...
Video game workers need to further unionize in 2024
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2023 was great for gamers. An incredible amount of fantastic new video games were released, like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and far too many more to list....
Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
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Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first part of the title borrows a line from the...
Re: U of M Prof’s concerns regarding nursing student suspension
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The purpose of this letter to the editor is to respond to Ben Baader’s recent letter in support of Arij Al Khafagi in the Manitoban. She was recently suspended for the academic year from...
Legal inaction against law dean accused of misspending funds angering
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Dear Michael Benarroch,
It is with immense anger and discontent that I learn that the university administration has chosen to not pursue legal action against Jonathan Black-Branch, as reported by the CBC on Dec. 10,...
Re: “Palestine teach-in: In our own words”
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Dear editor,
I thought I might take this opportunity to provide a brief and hopefully re-orienting set of remarks relating the opinion piece published in the Manitoban by University of Winnipeg organizers of the recent...
