Why you will never win an UMSU election
Another UMSU election has passed and once again the victor should come as no surprise to those of us who regularly follow politics at our…
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Respect for international students
During the Manitoban referendum campaign, I spent a lot of time walking around campus and talking to students. One day I walked by the Answers…
Where’s Penelope?
We live in a country where animal-protection advocacy is overshadowed by indifference: beaten elephants still travel in our circuses; the seal hunt is a fur-export…
Inner-city blues
On March 9, representatives of CentreVenture, Winnipeg’s supposed vanguard of development in the downtown area, appeared at City Hall to elaborate on their three-year business…
Letters to the Editor – March 23, 2011
RE: “What do chickens think?” (March 16, 2011) Thank you for your article on the depths of intelligence and emotion in chickens. Chickens are very…
Dog turds, piss puddles and thawing puke
Snow is melting, ice thawing. The whole city is covered in mud and filth. Canada geese are returning. The other day, I caught a couple…
Japan shows dignity in the face of tragedy
Japan was recently hit with multiple terrible disasters. An earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale triggered a devastating tsunami, which then severely damaged a…
Let’s hear Moore about the environment
Thompson, Manitoba is getting a lot of press these days. As Vale Incorporated, the multinational mining company in Thompson, has announced the closing of the…
A long, cold road to justice
Fourteen leaders from Manitoba’s Sayisi Dene First Nation made headlines in Ottawa last week. The elders, along with MP Niki Ashton from Churchill and the…
Libya fights for freedom: Will Gadhafi go?
The revolutionary spirit spreading throughout the Arab world has spread to Libya. Unfortunately, unlike the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, where the dictatorships fell with…