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Finding friends in familiar places

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Jessie Krahn
1977’s Between the Lines opens on a group of 20-something beatnik amateur journalists surviving on cigarettes, weekday booze and sexual misadventures. These characters — including bizarro dud of a music critic Max played by Jeff...
Bahareh Rashidi
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Noisy neighbourhoods and the quiet we crave

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Jessie Krahn
Noise ruins my life. All of the windows in my apartment face the back of a shopping complex. Sometimes there’s yelling as someone careens out the back exit with their shoplifting spoils. Adding to this...
Bahareh Rashidi
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Disco Elysium and the problem of capitalist production

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Jessie Krahn
Sometimes we grow attached to art because it speaks to our values, and it hurts when we find out the history behind that art doesn’t align with our image of it. The critically acclaimed Disco...
Bahareh Rashidi
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Profit margins on pharmaceuticals at GPA’s pose problems

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Kai HarKare
GPA’s is a major convenience for U of M students at the Fort Garry campus. We rely on its presence to fulfil many of our needs, whether they be in the form of food,...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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The indignity of grad students’ frozen federal funds

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Jessie Krahn
Returning to campus for the fall semester, many of us will ignore displeased hissing as the most miserable members of the U of M retreat under sunny streams of shimmering dust motes into the...
Bahareh Rashidi
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Facing the first year of university in a post-pandemic era

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Carolyn Wang
As the school year begins, I can’t help but reminisce about the past few years. I often think about how our lives and university experiences changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, I...
Teegan Gillich
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Government inaction in landfill search is negligence in action

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Jessie Krahn
In 2017, I attended Tanya Talaga’s talk at the Millennium Library where she was promoting her book, Seven Fallen Feathers. Part of Talaga’s book is a damning account of the ways police racism and...
Teegan Gillich

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