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.
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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.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is hardly more than a marketing stunt
Corporations should not be given the agency to choose what issues in society are worth funding and which are not.
America chose hate
America has been irreversibly broken from the inside out. It has become a country that is dramatically less free for many of its citizens – for four whole years.
One nation under Trump: what are the implications for Canada?
Even at their peak, democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted.
Military expansion is vital for a secure Canadian future
Prioritizing military means that we have the capacity to provide badly-needed international social and economic development in areas of instability.
The U of M stands at a historic crossroads
The administration is fighting for a cause it dare not name and seeks to camouflage behind talk of lack of funds.
Education for profit
A top university should aim to provide the best education possible. Larger class sizes means less one-on-one time with the students.
Professors are striking for students
Since the dawn of the 2016 faculty strike at the University of Manitoba, one phrase has become all too familiar in the mouths of students…
Free tuition is possible and pragmatic
Free post-secondary education is a very realistic goal and it can be achieved through rearranging our government’s priorities and channeling the political will toward helping students.