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Fair Elections Act to introduce extensive changes to electoral process
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On Feb. 10, the Harper government introduced the Fair Elections Act to parliament. Pierre Poilievre, minister of state for democratic reform, tabled the bill.
The bill would see numerous changes introduced to the democratic process...
Family of Brian Sinclair drops out of inquest
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The legal inquest into the death of Brian Sinclair—the man who died in a Winnipeg emergency room after 34 hours of waiting to be treated—will continue into its second phase without the participation of...
Aboriginal Students Gathering at Migizii Agamik
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The 2014 Aboriginal Students Gathering was held at the University of Manitoba’s Migizii Agamik building earlier this month. On Feb. 14 and 15, students discussed a range of issues relevant to Aboriginal politics and...
Student email addresses leaked
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Late last month, Manitoba Student Aid (MSA), a provincial government program which lends money to post-secondary students, accidentally released over 700 student email addresses to the public.
An email message was sent out to...
Crazy Indians Brotherhood not your average gang
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They look like a stereotypical street gang, dressed in black leather with their “colours”—a stylized caricatured face with a black eye patch—emblazoned across their backs, but the Crazy Indians Brotherhood (CIB) is trying to...
Katz got your tongue?
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Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz is suing the parent company of the Uniter, the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg, over an article that came out in late 2013 that he has claimed...
Indigenous politics and Canada’s colonial legacy
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Two University of Manitoba associate professors met last Thursday in a round-table discussion with students to debate ideas of liberalism, indigenous political theories, and human rights in a talk titled “Human Rights for All...
