Jets grounded
The Jets are coming! The Jets are coming! Well, hold on there little Jimmy, not so fast. While there may indeed be a team moved…
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How my life changed, over lunch
As a result of the International Centre for Students World Opportunities Week and Beyond our Borders Project’s efforts, on Oct. 28, I had the pleasure…
Healthcare in the US, a private affair
On Feb. 18, 1971 President Nixon announced, “I am proposing today a new national health strategy. The purpose of this program is simply this. I…
Different day, different action
On Nov. 5, students and community members will rally at U of M, U of W and the legislature for the annual Students’ Day of…
Musical memory or rummy remembrance?
Is it possible for people to go two hours without drinking? I do not think so. I refuse to believe that people refrain from “pre-gaming”…
Never give up
Allow me to commence this “comment” with characteristic self-absorption. Perhaps this is self-evident, but I am a man of eminence, of success. Indeed, my appetite…
“What’s a paragraph?”
It was mid-September. I had just set off from my house that morning on foot, living only a couple of blocks away from my practicum…
The sky is falling
“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” Chicken Little’s famous saying, in my opinion, is the message I receive every day when I watch…
Time to act!
In Winnipeg’s downtown core the poor, sick and homeless are selling their prescription medications to pay for the necessities of life. A CBC investigation reports…
Energy consumption of tomorrow, today!
Humans respond to incentive. When fuel prices go up, more people park their cars and take the bus. If the cost of honey goes down,…