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The lack of meaning in Christmas

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Evan Tremblay
What do yoga and Christmas have in common? Both are ancient, both are deeply spiritual, and both have been swallowed by the gaping wound that exists in place of our collective soul. Our consumer...
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Solidarity with what?

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Devon Hanel
The recent downing of a Russian Su-24 jet by Turkish forces over Syria is the first time a NATO member has destroyed a Russian aircraft since the 1950s. Given the complex, fractious conflict that...
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Mandatory courses: who, and why?

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Jordyn Lerner
There’s been discussion recently about imposing additional mandatory courses on students at the University of Manitoba. In the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) Annual Survey, students were asked if they support an Indigenous...
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Steven Fletcher and the secession vote

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Tom Ingram
The University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association has had a rocky organizational history.
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Legitimate pain and antisocial media

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Craig Adolphe
Blue, white, and red. Over the last week my Facebook feed has been filled with profile pictures tinted in those colours. It’s not only the images, though; everyone seems to have something they want...
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The journey of the poppy

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Michael Bell
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow...” A hundred years ago, these familiar lines by John McCrae first showed the connection between our fallen soldiers and the poppy. Then the “Poppy Lady,” American professor and YWCA...
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‘World-class’ is going a bit far

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Evan Tremblay
In a full-page trumpeting of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive’s accomplishments, UMSU president Jeremiah Kopp refers to the renovations begun and planned to the hallway on the third floor of University...

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