U of M to apply for provincial child care grant
The University of Manitoba announced last week that it will be applying to the province for a grant of up to $600,000 to fund the…
Tom Ingram
Fundraiser show brings together students, faculty, alumni
The Black Hole Theatre Company (BHTC) is staging a production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’s famous comedy of sex and war, to raise funds for the construction…
Putting the eSports dispute to rest
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 pursuit worth spending time on. Private inferiority complexes don’t make a good foundation for aesthetic debates.
Leadership and literacy
The University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) held its annual awards luncheon on Aug. 25.
Library tips
If you’re a new student, you’re probably overwhelmed by all the fees you’ve just paid. Your tuition is by far the largest of these, but…
The insurance switcheroo
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 every year because, as bourgeois scum, I had coverage through my parents. The students who live comfortably and receive some form of parental support will not even notice this premium increase, as they will never have to pay it.
Weighing in
Over the last month we’ve been hard at work on the back end of our website. Among other things, we have switched to a new web host that provides a better service than we were previously getting. The Manitoban’s web traffic has grown by an order of magnitude in the last few years and we’ve become too big for the space we had at the old host.
Advocating for students
Earlier this academic year there was a fleeting debate in the Manitoban on the role of student unions in connection with political advocacy. Since that…
The toilet wars
There was a brief period, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, when Canada was a major supplier of bootleg toilets to the United…
Why student politics matter
This year’s election for the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive had a different character than usual. There was a sense that the stakes…