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UMGSA passes motion to provide bus pass subsidies

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Gillian Brown
At its last meeting, the U of M Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) passed a motion that will subsidize bus passes for up to 500 graduate students for the fall semester. Since the pandemic, the fall...
Jenelle McCann
Comment

Inexpensive ridesharing comes with long-term cost

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Lucas Edmond
The notorious tech giant Uber was welcomed to Winnipeg earlier this summer with open arms by the municipal government and customers desiring a more modern and simple way of hailing a ride after a...
Jenelle McCann
Editorial

Reduced class sizes best bet for in-person instruction

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Ursula Chojko-Bolec
Less than three weeks after the first day of full-time school for elementary and secondary students in Manitoba, the province has seen a spike in cases of the novel coronavirus in some schools. Students from...
Jenelle McCann
News

Part-time enrolment spikes despite tuition hike, pandemic

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Gillian Brown
Despite the increasing tuition costs and shift to remote learning amid a pandemic, a preliminary 2020 fall term report states that the U of M has seen a sharp increase in enrolment compared to...
Jenelle McCann
Comment

COVID-19 is exposing fundamental flaws in the Canadian housing market

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Lucas Edmond
Provincial eviction bans across Canada have begun to end. The bans were initially adopted as a response to the economic shut-down induced by COVID-19. These bans, along with income support from the Canadian Emergency Response...
Jenelle McCann
Editorial

Inclusivity suffers when laptops banned in classrooms

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Sarah Doran
Fall classes have kicked off the University of Manitoba’s academic year once again, but this semester looks a bit different — professors are going over syllabi using Cisco Webex and Zoom instead of in...
Jenelle McCann
Comment

A guaranteed basic income will make the rich richer

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Lucas Edmond
With the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit coming to its conclusion at the end of September and the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, the federal government is reviewing a new benefit that could draw...
Jenelle McCann
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