A historic opportunity squandered: reflections on the UMFA strike settlement
As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) strike stood to win historically significant…
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Don’t tell international students to accept fee increases
Far past the closing of the 35th annual general meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), tweets rang out early into the night with…
Women’s and gender studies should be a requirement for all university students
I was once a young student entering my first year at the U of M with no idea which direction I was heading. However, if…
Canada’s student movement is split between practicality and ideology
This is the latest in a series of instances in which the left-wing student movement, with which I typically identify, has put ideological dogma ahead of tangible progress.
What’s in store for students now that the strike is over?
Our success this year will depend on how willing both professors and the administration are to fully accommodate students.
The Conservative Party of Canada is ripe for a populist takeover
Unless they can find a way to harness a new, coherent vision for the country that sets them apart, their chances of victory in the next federal election are conservative at best.
After the storm: what happens now that bargaining is over?
Administration and faculty are both essential to the governance and direction of the university.
Winnipeg should follow Sweden in their dramatic overhaul of road safety regulations
Nearly 50 per cent of pedestrian-vehicle collisions happen when the pedestrian is crossing an intersection.
Students are minds, bodies, and souls, not customers
If we are not able to deal with students in all their complex and dynamic individualism, then education is merely a commodity and professors are simply cogs in the system.
Not my UMSU
Support who you want on your own time, but dragging 25,676 undergraduate students into labour negotiations is not an appropriate way to represent the student body.