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The death of innocents
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The Syrian civil war has been raging for four years. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, surely including many toddlers. Certainly no shortage of refugees meeting tragic ends. But we weren’t confronted with...
Putting the eSports dispute to rest
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Games are not art. Games are not sports. Games are games. They’re their own thing, and all this arguing over what else they might be betrays a secret anxiety as to whether they’re a...
‘That’s not fair!’
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It seems to be something of a trend with people my age to confuse their own interests with the common good. The idea that it is somehow unfair for us to not have all...
Who does UMSU really work for?
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Welcome to the University of Manitoba: a campus that “thrives” and “grows” by disengaging from the student population via the brick walls of bureaucracy and oppressive ideology. Please do not be fooled by our...
Fossil fuel divestment: the way to the future
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Although the reasons outlined above make a strong moral case for divestment, fossil fuel divestment also makes economic sense. A recent news article in the Guardian confirmed that fossil fuel free funds outperformed conventional...
The question of quotas
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For over a year, the faculty of engineering has faced allegations of discrimination towards international students.
These allegations stem from engineering’s goal to admit between 12 and 15 per cent international students each year. Once...
The insurance switcheroo
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UMSU’s failure to find an alternate insurance plan comparable to CFS’s is made even bleaker when you consider who uses the plan. During my degree, I opted out of the health and dental plan...




