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Left out in the cold
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Almost a decade after being arrested, Omar Khadr has finally been sentenced. He received 40 years for the murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan, although a plea bargain struck in private will allow...
China in Africa
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When Chinese supervisors recently shot at protesting Zambian miners, injuring 11, the story quickly became international news. A labour incident in a remote corner of a far-off African country is not often a story...
Human trafficking in Canada
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Human trafficking does not sound like something that happens in Winnipeg. Sure, most of us have heard of it, but usually in the context of far away places. Yet news of Manitoba’s first human...
Reality Cheque
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Debt is something that frustrates me to no end. Not only have I been a student for the past four years, I have worked at one of the big five banks for almost as...
Another winter of discontent
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Well, shit. Winter is back, kicking ass and taking names. Outside, it is wet and cold as fuck. There was snow last night, and the weather is already taking its toll on drivers across...
The October Crisis forty years after
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Last year, a great injustice was done in Canada. At the muzzle of threats to violence issued by some Quebec sovereigntists, several events to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains...
Ignorance is bliss
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Congratulations! If you have managed to stand up, walk over to a Manitoban stand and pick up a copy of this paper then there is still hope for you. Those who couldn’t muster the...
