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Last week Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, said to a House of Commons committee that out-of-work students should work for free to bolster their CVs. His remarks have since been condemned...

In my first year at the University of Manitoba, I encountered something I had never imagined before. On arriving at my first English class and receiving a syllabus, I discovered that there was an...

In an article in the Nov. 12 issue of the Manitoban, "UMSU Gets it Right With Political Neutrality", Ethan Cabel asserts that political action has a limited place within the mandate of today's student...

While there are many qualms that I would raise with Ethan Cabel's recent article around the perceived political neutrality of student unions, I would first ask him to consider both recent and not so...

At a time when more and more Canadians are attending university at different stages in their lives and for vastly different reasons, the idea of students comprising a uniform political constituency is increasingly absurd. Even...

When the CBC announced that they had ended their relationship with radio host Jian Ghomeshi, the Internet exploded, with fans of Ghomeshi tweeting their collective outrage. Musician and author Amanda Palmer was one of the...

Concert etiquette can be a touchy subject, especially among classical musicians. While classical musicians maintain a certain pride in the unspoken rules surrounding concert, it's possible that some of these rules have made the...