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Lawyers often caution students that law school is absolutely nothing like practising law. On one level, this is uncontroversial; learning about abstract, general principles and the rules of law are necessary. Doing so, however,...

Heading into his inauguration with the lowest approval rating of any modern president-elect, at only 40 per cent, Donald Trump gave a dark speech vowing to put “America first” and to stop “American carnage.”...

Hate manifests itself in many forms. It can be bigoted beliefs, rude behavior towards a subset of society, systemic mistreatment of a group, or genocide. While hate in society must be addressed, it seems...

The Syrian conflict, one of the deadliest humanitarian crises of our time, has become synonymous with death, gore, and sheer hopelessness as war-torn images of Syrian cities dominate our front pages. After nearly six years...

If nothing else, the University of Manitoba’s Students’ Union’s (UMSU) latest foray with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has shown the UMSU executives are in over their heads. At the CFS’s November national general...

I recently read Mary Asekome and Sofia Descalzi’s piece “Don’t Tell International Students To Accept Fee Increases” and I would like to address some comments and suggestions that were made therein. There is evidently much...

Happy New Year to all my university colleagues, administrators, and students! I am excited, as I’m sure you are as well, about the prospects of 2017. I write this letter to reflect somewhat belatedly...