On campus news, Karuhogo’s UMSU and Palestine
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What, exactly, is the point of a student newspaper?
I joined the Manitoban as an arts & culture reporter in the fall of 2022 to build my portfolio and make friends in the final hours...
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...
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....
U of M and UMSU sweep aside anti-Palestinian racism
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UMSU and the University of Manitoba’s wilful and continuous ignoring of both the genocide of Palestinians, and the way the genocide has come to affect the U of M community locally, has come home...
Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for...
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I pour love into all of my relationships. But as I’ve written before, I don’t think love is divorced from society’s ills. After years — plural — of being single, I’ve learned firsthand the...
We owe Afolabi Stephen Opaso remembrance and action
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Right at the year’s close, news that 19-year-old U of M international student Afolabi Stephen Opaso was killed by police on Dec. 31, 2023 shook the community. Apparently, though, it didn’t hit the U...
ULTRA X’MAS for the holiday disinclined
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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 being an anxious mess. Some members of my family...
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