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Mandatory courses: who, and why?
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There’s been discussion recently about imposing additional mandatory courses on students at the University of Manitoba. In the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) Annual Survey, students were asked if they support an Indigenous...
The journey of the poppy
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“In Flanders fields the poppies blow...”
A hundred years ago, these familiar lines by John McCrae first showed the connection between our fallen soldiers and the poppy. Then the “Poppy Lady,” American professor and YWCA...
‘World-class’ is going a bit far
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In a full-page trumpeting of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive’s accomplishments, UMSU president Jeremiah Kopp refers to the renovations begun and planned to the hallway on the third floor of University...
Vacation is not a treatment
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I fully support an UMSU campaign on mental health. Public health insurance does not fund most mental health services, particularly preventive ones. The university offers limited student counselling, but it’s not the university’s role...
Putting poutine in its place
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You may have noticed that, for some time, there’s been a food truck parked on campus. A welcome relief from the unrelenting mediocrity of campus food services (though I’ve yet to actually see anyone...
Building momentum for Shoal Lake 40’s Freedom Road
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This past September, nearly 1,000 Winnipeggers gathered at the Legislative Building to participate in the Winnipeg Water Walk, an event which called for hard commitments from the local, provincial, and federal governments towards the...
Legalize it – and by ‘it,’ I mean ‘all of it’
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Commanding a majority of the seats in the House of Commons, and with the already-established support of the courts, there is no reason the incoming Liberal government cannot make good on its promise to...







