What do you do with a problem like Gitmo?
Pop quiz. You have 245 suspected terrorists and enemy combatants housed 90 miles off the shore of the largest “democracy” in the world. They are…
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Idiot or liar?
Our prime minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, addressed the leaders of the 20 richest nations on earth in Pittsburg on September 25. Reuters reported…
The power of the dirty
When it comes to rich countries’ businesses infringing on developing countries’ rights in order to reach their self-interested and lucrative gains, there is a repetitive…
Why are you here?
“If you don’t love it, leave it.” — Merle Haggard I was riding the 60 to the university the other day, and I had the…
Letters to the Editor – September 30, 2009
RE: Ask a health and fitness specialist, Sept. 14, 2009 Ben Hodges’s weight loss advice is based on the failed conventional wisdom that weight loss…
Flirting with equality
Every now and then I feel as if Prime Minister Stephen Harper is justified in allegedly maintaining a gag order or a tight leash on…
Could winter bring a tuition freeze?
For only the fourth time in the 40-year history of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, members from across the province are actively engaged in…
Education(al) matters
As a teacher-candidate who is seven months from graduating and entering what is currently a crowded profession, I spend much of my time resume-building, taking…
Letters
RE: ISRAEL: BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OR APARTHEID COLONY (Sept 16) Fadi Ennab’s inflammatory, response-imploring article appears to attack this summer’s Israel Pavilion for not recognizing the…
The aligning of dead ducks
Tar-sands major player Syncrude plead “not guilty” in court last week to two charges laid after 1,600 migratory birds, mostly ducks, died horrible deaths in…