Exploring Ongomiizwin
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Ongomiizwin is an Anishinaabe word that means “clearing a path for generations to come.”
It is also the name of the U of M’s Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing. Founded in 2017, Ongomiizwin...
Re-assess mental illness after Aaron Bushnell
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25-year-old U.S. military member Aaron Bushnell died of burn injuries after self-immolating and shouting “free Palestine” in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25. Live-streaming the act on Twitch, Bushnell...
Students should support faculty strikes
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Strikes are meant to be disruptive. There is no way around it, because protesting for rights while meeting the needs of the administration workers are agitating against is simply not feasible or logical.
In light...
30 years later, apartheid remains on the ballot
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I left South Africa a few days before the general elections in 2019. My parents decided that, despite the jubilation within the country, I ought to study abroad because they felt it was the...
This just in, it’s spring!
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Spring feels like an iced coffee. It’s a startling wake up call: suddenly, you look around and the wind doesn’t sting as much, there’s more birdsong than there was yesterday, and the sky is...
Rethinking healthcare in terms of technology
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Ranging from wheelchairs to speech recognition software, over 2.5 billion people globally need assistive technology. As the population ages and noncommunicable diseases become more prevalent, that number is expected to rise to 3.5 billion...
Look to other university strikes when U of M is quiet
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Having lived through UMFA’S 2016 and 2021 strikes as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, I like to keep my ear to the ground about labour disputes in other post-secondary institutions across Canada....
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