This is the virtual bad place
When Elon Musk purchased Twitter this year for US$44 billion, the ship-jumping began, with many Twitter users urging others to switch platforms. What is perhaps…
Editorial
Perfectionism is a dangerous cycle
This editorial will change the world. An epiphany of nostalgic notoriety and avant-garde conception that historians will say encapsulated the zeitgeist of the 21st century….
Plans are not set in stone
I think that that most of us reading this are at the age where we feel like we are doing what we think we need…
Get a grip (on your trash), stop littering
As we move further into November, I still find myself thinking of summer. I think back to the heat, the feeling of relaxation and, most…
Living in the North
Over the past six weeks — and for the next six and a half months — I have embarked on a co-op work term placement…
The unremarkable is revealed by planetary defence test
It was on Sept. 26 that NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — after traveling for 10 months with a trajectory aimed at a small…
The ugly truth of contact sports
It is a truth universally acknowledged that football is a brutal sport. On Sept. 29 in the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati…
Fast fashion cannot exist in a sustainable environment
The environmental damage done by the fast fashion industry on our planet is severe. However, this phenomenon has been building for a long time. Currently,…
Minimum wage increase too little, too late
Last month the Manitoba government announced that by October 2023 it plans to raise the provincial minimum wage to $15 per hour. The announcement was…
UMSU board got itself into this mess
At the end of August, the Canadian Federation of Students filed a lawsuit against the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), alleging that UMSU has…