The Redwood
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…
Articles by Comment Editor
A historic opportunity squandered: reflections on the UMFA strike settlement
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…
Don’t tell international students to accept fee increases
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…
Women’s and gender studies should be a requirement for all university students
I was once a young student entering my first year at the U of M with no idea which direction I was heading. However, if…
The Conservative Party of Canada is ripe for a populist takeover
Unless they can find a way to harness a new, coherent vision for the country that sets them apart, their chances of victory in the next federal election are conservative at best.
After the storm: what happens now that bargaining is over?
Administration and faculty are both essential to the governance and direction of the university.
Winnipeg should follow Sweden in their dramatic overhaul of road safety regulations
Nearly 50 per cent of pedestrian-vehicle collisions happen when the pedestrian is crossing an intersection.
Students are minds, bodies, and souls, not customers
If we are not able to deal with students in all their complex and dynamic individualism, then education is merely a commodity and professors are simply cogs in the system.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is hardly more than a marketing stunt
Corporations should not be given the agency to choose what issues in society are worth funding and which are not.
America chose hate
America has been irreversibly broken from the inside out. It has become a country that is dramatically less free for many of its citizens – for four whole years.