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A letter from a travel-weary student returning to Winnipeg during global lockdowns
After my two-year hiatus in India, in which I had to tend to my ill parents, I finally decided to travel back to Winnipeg,...
Restrictions on snowbirds prompt open season on vulnerable travellers
We warned them, but they did not listen. After months of escalating restrictions, multiple lockdowns, and the government all but begging Canadians not to...
‘COVID fatigue’ may be getting the best of us, but now is not the time to take our foot off the gas
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister warned government appointees Feb. 1 if they travel outside of designated zones “for leisure purposes,” they will be terminated. This...
The private production of COVID-19 vaccines represents a moral failure of colossal scale
As Canada enters its second month of the tenuous COVID-19 vaccine rollout, citizens are becoming unnerved by its disorganized distribution. Although impatience is surfacing,...
UMSU’s adoption of the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism defends settler colonialism
Recently, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism in collaboration with Hillel Winnipeg,...
