Could winter bring a tuition freeze?
For only the fourth time in the 40-year history of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, members from across the province are actively engaged in…
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Education(al) matters
As a teacher-candidate who is seven months from graduating and entering what is currently a crowded profession, I spend much of my time resume-building, taking…
Manitoba and Saskatchewan look to ban texting while driving
Increasing evidence regarding the dangers of distracted driving has a number of provinces considering legislation to ban texting and talking on held-held devices while driving….
A new noise
Crowds. Lights. A new noise. I stumble into the Toad on Osborne. The vast hum of the outside world recedes behind me, overcome by the…
A rainbow of chaos
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
TV in the cinema
TV is often hailed as the greatest mass communications advance of the 20th-century, but viewers worldwide are being challenged to do away with it this…
UMFM Show Spotlight : The Scene
The UMFM Show Spotlight is monthly column showcasing various programming on the University of Manitoba’s campus and community radio station. To recommend a show for…
CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP
There’s something quiet about spaghetti westerns. The storylines are basic enough: enigmatic cowboy hero draws-and-fires his way to the bottom of the human condition. But…
CD Review – Keith Price “Breakfast of Champions”
On Dec. 19, 2008, a group of musicians under the leadership of Keith Price assembled at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Winnipeg to record an album….
Amber Alert
In the past few years, a coterie of musicians, many, if not all, graduates of the University of Manitoba’s School of Music’s Jazz Studies program,…