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An epistle to the arts
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I must begin with an apology
For my utmost and true sincerity.
My mind is at the mercy of my pen,
(A weakness for the strongest of men.)
It speaks the truth, and to it I must yield,
Indeed,...
Leave us alone
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Bannatyne is not Fort Garry. While this statement is self-evident, it is not always so to the University of Manitoba Students' Union (UMSU).
The most common UMSU strategy to woo the Bannatyne campus is to...
Whose student experience?
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Another UMSU election has come and gone. As tradition requires, students were bombarded with the fresh, enthusiastic faces of two different slates running to provide the best possible university experience for undergraduate students -...
Why student politics matter
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This year's election for the University of Manitoba Students' Union (UMSU) executive had a different character than usual. There was a sense that the stakes were higher than they've been in the past. Even...
A higher empathy
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Vincent Li has been a household name for years now, and has been the source of much debate in Manitoba, and all across Canada. In 2008, Li was arrested for killing and beheading a...
Leave the tweets out of it
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Shortly after Christopher Bélanger confirmed his candidacy for the position of vice-president internal of the University of Manitoba Students' Union (UMSU), a set of screenshots of offensive tweets made by Bélanger in 2012 and...
Parsing the Canadian history wars
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Among the list of grievances critics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper inevitably trot out as further evidence of his profound, Machiavellian evil is the way in which Canadian history has been rebranded, or remade,...





