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, but they also haven’t done anything more proactive than...

I was chatting with some guests at a wedding when a few kids trotted past the table where we were swilling wine. Someone scoffed and bemoaned weddings that don’t ban kids from the guestlist....

Society is awful — homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, misogynistic, imperialistic and classist too. With this horrible cloud clogging up our social stratosphere, institutions jostling to appear inclusive start to seem more threatening than promising. The...

As the Manitoban approaches the midway point of its 110th publishing year, we are reminded of the vital role that student journalism plays in a university’s society.  Journalism is essential to a functioning democracy. Good...

In 2021, around two thirds of Canadians had gym memberships. The third who didn’t presumably were doing Chloe Ting’s month-long YouTube workout regimens. Meanwhile, internet body-building personalities like Jeff Nippard are animating pictures of...

When I got a tattoo, a relative asked me, “What are you going to do now that you’ve ruined your body?” That relative is no longer with us — not by my hand. But I...

Reality is worse than fiction. There’s a scene in Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film Divine Intervention where an unarmed woman wearing a pink cocktail dress and matching heels walks towards a fictional checkpoint. The...