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Dog turds, piss puddles and thawing puke
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Snow is melting, ice thawing. The whole city is covered in mud and filth. Canada geese are returning. The other day, I caught a couple squirrels fucking at the base of an elm tree....
Japan shows dignity in the face of tragedy
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Japan was recently hit with multiple terrible disasters. An earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale triggered a devastating tsunami, which then severely damaged a series of nuclear reactors, most notably the Fukushima plant....
A long, cold road to justice
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Fourteen leaders from Manitoba’s Sayisi Dene First Nation made headlines in Ottawa last week. The elders, along with MP Niki Ashton from Churchill and the group’s lawyer Arne Peltz, staged a sit-in at the...
Libya fights for freedom: Will Gadhafi go?
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The revolutionary spirit spreading throughout the Arab world has spread to Libya. Unfortunately, unlike the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, where the dictatorships fell with relative swiftness, Moammar Gadhafi has chosen the path of...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
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March 8, 2011 was International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the accomplishments of women and to contemplate the current political, economic and sociological situations of females across the globe. In Canada, we have...
Egypt down, Libya to go
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You have definitely heard of Egypt's democracy movement. Now it's Libya's turn. The countries are right beside each other and share a lot of their history, culture and geography. Each also had an oppressive...
Letters to the Editor – March 16, 2011
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A thank you to the University of Manitoba community
I thank all of the compassionate people who have given me their seat on the bus, or waited until the ramp has been lowered rather than...
