Poverty and chaos around the globe
Nowadays, it is easy to tell if a country is able to provide a citizen with stable ways of living or if it represents struggle…
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Letters to the Editor – Oct. 21, 2009
Feel Good Letter of the Month Hi, my name is Caitlin Howard and I am a first year student at the U of M. I…
The Ultimate Downer
On the morning of April 5, 1994, Jarrod woke up wide-eyed. Believing that he could fly, the teenager convinced his father to drive him and…
An open mind in a shrinking world
In the world today, globalization affects peoples’ points of view, attitudes, mentalities, values and perspectives. The world is shrinking as the media, economic interrelations and…
Scrutinizing the American propaganda machine
“It was very much a moment of high drama. [ . . . ] Barack Obama announce[d . . . ] the existence of a…
The need to continue our journey into space
Though I’m not the first one to come to the conclusion that, at the end of the day, we’re screwed if we stick with Earth,…
Simply a politician
I was very pleased to hear that Greg Selinger is “simply a good guy” (“Simply a good guy” Oct. 7, 2009). I mean, really, who…
Thinking critically about pigs
Last March, I wrote a piece on pigs for the Manitoban, following the dispute in the campus center between the Winnipeg Humane Society’s “Quit-Stalling” campaigners…
Plaid! Parkas! Patriotism!
Assume for a moment that there is such thing as a “Canadian identity.” I, perhaps naively, would like to imagine that it is complex, subtle…
Healthy living for a lifetime
As a young person who is very health conscious, I am appalled at Toban Wiebe’s letter of Sept. 30 (“Ask a health and fitness specialist”;…