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Issues to follow in the civic election
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Zach Fleisher
If you’re like most Winnipeggers, then you haven’t spent an outrageous amount of time following the #wpg14 hashtag, otherwise known as the lead-up to the 2014 City of Winnipeg election.
Campaigns have been...
It gets bitter
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When I got home from work on Monday, Aug. 11, I had experienced a particularly emotionally exhausting day. Then, when I signed into Facebook, I read the news about Robin Williams’ passing. It was...
Police militarization on the rise
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Andrew Vineberg
A war is raging in a strange and backward part of the world. An occupying army is using advanced military technology and weaponry against a terrified population, drawing the eyes of human rights...
Bill C-36 endangers sex workers
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Casey Plett
Since Last month, the federal government has been shepherding through a new bill regarding sex work laws. Having passed a second reading in the House of Commons, the Protection of Communities and Exploited...
Foreign workers deserve Canada’s respect, hospitality
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Chris Hearn
A small amount of Canadian corporations—a few Tim Hortons and McDonald’s franchises, for example—have reportedly been abusing Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Some have argued the program, which allowed businesses to import...
Jailed Egyptian-Canadian journalist abandoned by Harper government
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Tariq Sohail
On June 23, 2014 an Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Fahmy and his two colleagues to seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges.
Fahmy, an Egyptian-Canadian journalist, was covering the Arab Spring in Egypt before...
Things every man should understand about #YesAllWomen
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Trigger warning: sexual assault, domestic violence, violence against women
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them” – Margaret Atwood
In the wake of Elliot Rodger’s May...






