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Re-assess mental illness after Aaron Bushnell
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25-year-old U.S. military member Aaron Bushnell died of burn injuries after self-immolating and shouting “free Palestine” in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25. Live-streaming the act on Twitch, Bushnell...
As an ‘ideas museum,’ CMHR is giving us the wrong idea
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has been criticized since before its opening in 2014. Several ethnic communities have felt that their stories were being misrepresented, under-represented or not represented at all, in...
Welcoming Winnipeg gets it wrong again
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On March 12, the Executive Policy Committee (EPC) heard cases for and against the renaming of Edison Park, a small sitting area at the corner of Henderson Highway and Edison Avenue in North Kildonan,...
Students should support faculty strikes
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Strikes are meant to be disruptive. There is no way around it, because protesting for rights while meeting the needs of the administration workers are agitating against is simply not feasible or logical.
In light...
30 years later, apartheid remains on the ballot
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I left South Africa a few days before the general elections in 2019. My parents decided that, despite the jubilation within the country, I ought to study abroad because they felt it was the...
Look to other university strikes when U of M is quiet
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Having lived through UMFA’S 2016 and 2021 strikes as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, I like to keep my ear to the ground about labour disputes in other post-secondary institutions across Canada....
Is health care for international students just a promise?
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The results are in, and UMSU’s newly elected executive team for 2024-25 has been decided.
Among the elects, Divya Sharma, the incoming president and incumbent vice president community engagement, campaigned on the goal of reinstating...
