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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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Systemic racism in Canadian health care is hurting Indigenous people and...

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Grace Gyolai
Leaders from Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, a non-profit political advocacy organization, and its northern branch, Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin, met with government officials and health-care partners last week in a two-day conference to address anti-Indigenous racism...
Jenelle McCann
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Cuts to the enhanced operating grants in Manitoba daycares signal an...

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Lucas Edmond
As an ex-daycare worker, I have seen firsthand how hard early childhood educators (ECE) in the public sector work to keep their facilities afloat with the abysmal grants they receive. From getting creative with...
Jenelle McCann

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