Undermining the real lessons
Right now, most U of M students aren’t too concerned with exams. Having just returned from winter break, for most of us the next major…
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The movies aint making what they used to
Watching box office records being broken these days is like watching the Olympics, if performance-enhancing drugs were permitted. With year after year of record breakers,…
The planet is the source of all prosperity
Spencer Fernando’s recent article, “A Conservative’s View on Climate Change” (Jan. 13, 2010) requires a serious response from a green perspective. First, it must be…
Protecting our prosperity without jeopardizing our environment
In response to Spencer Fernando’s “Protecting our environment and our prosperity” (the Manitoban Vol. 97 No. 18, Jan. 13, 2009), it seems that Mr. Fernando…
Beggars can’t be choosers
One week after a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti, foreign aid began to pour into the country. American Red…
Decade of Death
In November 2009 Time declared the 2000s “the decade from hell,” in the article “The ’00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell,” by…
Letters to the Editor
RE: “STRANGLING DEMOCRACY BY THE THRESHOLD” (Jan. 13, 2010) Essentially, adopting what has infamously within the Canadian student movement became known as “Motion Six” is…
Would you kill your grandchildren for a boatload of oil?
This past December, our government met with other governments at the climate summit in Copenhagen to worry about what kind of a thing they will,…
Strangling democracy by the threshold
The motion passed by the Canadian Federation of Students at their recent national AGM, which doubled the threshold of students required to trigger a referendum…
RCMP are barking up a tree in the Peace Country
In a scene chock full of déjà vu, notorious malcontent Reverend Wiebo Ludwig was arrested in Grande Prairie, A.B.. on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 in…