Contraceptive realities are pregnant with inequalities
It was a random Tuesday in primary six when the head teacher, Mrs. Joy, had split the entire school in half. Girls headed to the…
Editorial
Critique confidently to construct a better world
Can I offer you some constructive criticism? Many readers may reflexively cringe at that question, which makes sense. For many of us, criticism feels primarily…
Political discourse is deafening and talk is cheap
From my first introduction to political satire as a child in Mad Magazine and This Hour has 22 Minutes, political and social commentary have always…
Epiphanies grow from joyful movement
My seventeenth birthday was a Friday, which meant I had to (got to, really) spend my evening at Center Ice Arena. At this point I…
There is solidarity in poverty at university
The experiences I’ve carried with me from a life in and out of various states of poverty were ones I frequently felt alienated by. I…
Video game workers need to further unionize in 2024
2023 was great for gamers. An incredible amount of fantastic new video games were released, like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of…
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians,…
A ballad of songbirds, snakes and ingenuity
Ever since the trailer for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out this April, the world of The Hunger Games — or as some…
My struggle with name and identity
We are fragile mosaics of everything we have ever known, and that starts with what we believe is truly our own — our names. Harmat…
The modern lawn is dead
The overwhelming popularity of the short grass lawn is one of the single most devastating trends in residential landscaping. Not only is it boring and…