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Calm reflection must prevail during next round of faculty negotiations
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Happy New Year to all my university colleagues, administrators, and students! I am excited, as I’m sure you are as well, about the prospects of 2017. I write this letter to reflect somewhat belatedly...
Liberals on the wrong side of history with pipeline approvals
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The prime minister helped create thousands of new jobs, billions of dollars in new revenue for our country, and strengthen international trading relationships. But at what cost?
A historic opportunity squandered: reflections on the UMFA strike settlement
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As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) strike stood to win historically significant gains in the ongoing battle against the commodification and...
Don’t tell international students to accept fee increases
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Far past the closing of the 35th annual general meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), tweets rang out early into the night with various 140-character accounts of what went down. We have...
Women’s and gender studies should be a requirement for all university...
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I was once a young student entering my first year at the U of M with no idea which direction I was heading. However, if there is one thing that I am absolutely certain...
Canada’s student movement is split between practicality and ideology
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This is the latest in a series of instances in which the left-wing student movement, with which I typically identify, has put ideological dogma ahead of tangible progress.
What’s in store for students now that the strike is over?
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Our success this year will depend on how willing both professors and the administration are to fully accommodate students.
