Editorial

Editorial

It’s almost Winnipeg’s 150, but we really shouldn’t be celebrating

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Simon Pensato
Winnipeg will mark its 150-year anniversary on Nov. 8, 2023. In the lead-up to civic celebrations, it is important to look at what Winnipeg’s incorporation meant to people at the time. The recent victory of...
Dallin Chicoine
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Tortoise tales and the West African ethos

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Elah Ajene
I was five, maybe six, when I heard the story of the tortoise and the hare. In the classic folktale, an arrogant hare challenges the slow-moving tortoise to a race, and to everyone’s surprise, the...
Christina Tran
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Manitoba should have no space for hate

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Grace Anne Paizen
In case students somehow missed the visual cacophony of political signage on their trek to campus, the Manitoba provincial election is this upcoming Tuesday, Oct. 3. To say this provincial election has been an embarrassment...
Teegan Gillich
Editorial

Canada needs to protect the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ youth

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Kyra Campbell
As a Canadian citizen and grad student researching human rights, I always want to see the country continue to progress forward. However, Canada continues to become a place that I am more pessimistic than...
Teegan Gillich
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Pumpkin and spice and everything nice

By
Sarah Cohen
Being raised in the outskirts of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of Southern California, I was deprived of actual seasons until I moved to Winnipeg. In California, we have what we call the “wet...
Teegan Gillich
Editorial

Communities need local newspapers

By
Gillian Brown
Anybody living in Manitoba from mid-July onward knew about the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MLL) strike for fair wages and what it meant for the province — there was almost no way to get...
Bahareh Rashidi
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The U-Pass should be available year-round

By
Jacob Davis
Most students are probably ecstatic to be out of school come the summer break. Without looming deadlines or back-to-back cramming sessions to worry about, I imagine most students’ academic anxieties are replaced with a surge...
Bahareh Rashidi

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