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Happy New Year to all my university colleagues, administrators, and students! I am excited, as I’m sure you are as well, about the prospects of 2017. I write this letter to reflect somewhat belatedly...

Over a month has passed since members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) closed our picket lines and returned to work in labs, offices, and classrooms. The post-mortems of the strike will,...

Fiona watches the sun rise. She hasn’t been sleeping lately. She floats for eight hours a night in a dreamless blur. She wakes up for good around 5:30 am and she stares at the ceiling...

what did you do last night?   i was on my knees. i was on my knees trying to pray but all that came out was his name.   who is he?   he is the Sun.   who does that make you?   icarus. icarus who flew too close but if...

I turn the silver knob and push, stepping out the back door of my home. My senses instantly become realized as I take in the smell of fresh air, the sound of crickets, and...

As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) strike stood to win historically significant gains in the ongoing battle against the commodification and...

Far past the closing of the 35th annual general meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), tweets rang out early into the night with various 140-character accounts of what went down. We have...