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Reality is worse than fiction. There’s a scene in Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film Divine Intervention where an unarmed woman wearing a pink cocktail dress and matching heels walks towards a fictional checkpoint. The...

There has been much debate in recent days over why Hamas chose to launch an “unprovoked” ground, air and sea attack against Israel, and its moral implications. We may never know exactly why the...

With the chilly October breeze finding home in our bones, of course the time has come when our first grades are coming back. In many cases, these grades are not the cozy blankets that keep...

Wab Kinew and the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) defeated the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives (PCs) in the provincial election earlier this October. The centre-left NDP ran a relatively moderate campaign with limited attention on...

Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives closed out the better part of a decade of austerity consistently, if nothing else. The Manitoba government has reportedly sold off more social housing to the private sector than it funded...

After a long fifteen-hour shift serving my beautiful province working for Elections Manitoba, enduring a paper cut and a nick from a pair of scissors, I came home to good news. On Oct. 3, the...

I was reading a CBC News article last week about comments that Russian President Vladimir Putin made regarding former Canadian Speaker of the House Anthony Rota’s resignation. Rota had invited a former Nazi Ukrainian...