We’re back (in print), baby!
Even before I set foot on campus for the first time, way back in the fall of 2019, I knew I wanted to be a…
Dallin Chicoine
The great Zoom experience
I grew up on movies, especially the ones about the so-called “great college experience,” one of learning, meeting friends, sitting in great big lecture halls,…
’Toban tracks — study vibes
It’s our back to school issue, classes are starting back up and although we’d rather not think about it, actual schoolwork and studying is back…
Shedding light on the emerging viral disease
Monkeypox, first identified in non-human primates in 1958, has become a global outbreak with over 50,000 cases worldwide. On Aug. 19, Manitoba Deputy Chief Provincial…
What’s going on in 2022-23
There are a lot of events and deadlines for students throughout the school year. During the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, schedule changes…
‘It’s not something that we chose’: UMSU women’s rep outlines plan to tackle period poverty at U of M
As we return to classrooms, plenty of students are set to encounter distinct challenges that distance learning prolonged. Not only will some students be forced…
The easy way out of caring for people
In the first episode of Futurama, our hapless hero Philip J. Fry arrives in the year 2999 and stumbles upon one of the future’s popular…
Allyship should not end at the legislature’s doors
“Life gets easier once you are out.” That is what is often heard from close family and friends once one decides to come out and…
Board meeting reveals plans for student advocacy and Bison Bash
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union held its first in-person board meeting this year on Aug. 18. UMSU president Jaron Rykiss said it felt great…
U of M would fail service inspection
With a surplus of $94 million in the 2020-21 fiscal year the university — regardless of the fact that the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) advocated that graduate student fees should not go up, particularly during the ongoing pandemic — upped graduate student summer fees by at least 464%.