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,…
Editorial
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…
It is irresponsible to romanticize university
The weekend before the beginning of school, I was talking with my sister and her boyfriend about how disappointing my university experience has been thus…
We’re back (in print), baby!
Even before I set foot on campus for the first time, way back in the fall of 2019, I knew I wanted to be a…
The easy way out of caring for people
In the first episode of Futurama, our hapless hero Philip J. Fry arrives in the year 2999 and stumbles upon one of the future’s popular…
U of M would fail service inspection
With a surplus of $94 million in the 2020-21 fiscal year the university — regardless of the fact that the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) advocated that graduate student fees should not go up, particularly during the ongoing pandemic — upped graduate student summer fees by at least 464%.
Bridging the mental health gap is the community’s job
Though Zoom memberships have now expired without an expected renewal, sweatshirts are wearing thing, and restrictions are essentially fully eased, one issue persists: the toll the pandemic has taken on the student body.
Stefanson undermining public health at every turn
Early in the pandemic, Manitoba’s COVID-19 response was exemplary. It took five months from the initial outbreak for the provincial death toll to even hit double digits and another eight months to hit 100. Those numbers seem almost unbelievable in today’s context, where the premier seems to be actively trying to infect as many people as possible.
Church must tear up papal bulls, return stolen material
The church supposedly feels remorse for its actions, yet it continues to act and uphold colonial institutions and practices. Unlike the Pope’s apology makes it seem, it was not simply a few misguided Christians that contributed to residential schools — it was and continues to be an institutional effort that began with two racist papal bulls. The continuity of this institutional colonialism lives on in the Vatican’s private collection of cultural material. If the church truly wants to take its first steps toward reconciliation, it should return what was stolen and tear up the papal bulls that made this theft possible.