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The declining value of our degrees

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Jordyn Lerner
The reputation of the University of Manitoba has been damaged by recent news stories about the rise in academic dishonesty and admission changes in the faculty of education. This affects us as future graduates...
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People are a product of their physical environment

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Evan Tremblay
Winnipeg is a city. This truth is self-evident, but was apparently not on our mayor’s mind when he declared “I have no interest in offering a platform for the types of violent and harmful...
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Negative stereotypes still shroud “feminism”

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Jill Patterson
In January, Manitoba celebrated the 100-year anniversary of becoming the first province to extend the franchise to women. In light of such a milestone in Manitoban history, it is worthwhile to reflect on how...
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The poor will be the first to bear the brunt of...

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Jill Patterson
Climate change is this generation’s most pressing social concern that will, at some point or another, affect everyone if we continue down our current path. Although climate change does not discriminate its victims, it...
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‘One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric’

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Aedan Ladd
If I told you there was a Twitter feud in November 2012, I doubt you would be surprised; Twitter has enough feuds to go around. However, the one I’m going to tell you about...
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David Bowie is dead: it was bound to happen eventually

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Evan Tremblay
If you have Facebook, you know that David Bowie is dead. News of his death spread quickly through that lowest common denominator of communication, and lingered on in print newspapers like the stench of...
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Systemic racism, dispossession still with us

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Jill Patterson
In a recent CBC interview, Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada, outlined some of the most recent statistics on prison populations and incarceration rates in Canada. They show dramatic increases in the number...

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