Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first…
Teegan Gillich
Palestine Teach-In: In our own words
We write as faculty who are part of the Palestine Teach-In Collective. We seek to address bad-faith criticisms and attempts to cancel our event, “Palestine…
Family and finance in the holiday season
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all my loyal readers. To everyone else, have a decent December or whatever. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa…
ULTRA X’MAS for the holiday disinclined
Holidays bring out the grinch in me, but not because I’m a cynic. I’m a sentimental crybaby and I get drunk off social energy, despite…
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians,…
For the herd — take time to enjoy winter
As the holiday season commences, it can feel awfully dreary this time of year with the sun setting before 5 p.m. and the impending cumulation…
UMSU board unanimously votes out community rep
The UMSU board of directors (BOD) unanimously voted to remove Black students’ representative Anita Ayame from her position during a special meeting held on Thursday,…
Reincarnating the religion department
The University of Manitoba is renovating its lounge and planning coffee and donut get-togethers for students as part of a larger plan of rejuvenating the…
NDP announces free birth control
The newly formed New Democratic Party (NDP) government of Manitoba reassured the right to reproductive health care, including access to prescription birth control, last Tuesday. …
The increasing need for mental health support
Katie Surinx’s stress around midterm season can become physiological. Her third-year criminology coursework seems to have piled up and the stress of achieving good grades…