My roses and thorns of Winnipeg
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As I get ready to leave Winnipeg, it feels only right to offer a final, deeply subjective assessment of the city. This is not a tourism ad, and it is not a takedown either....
The worst of 2003 is back
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I was only two years old in 2003, but looking back, it is hard to shake the feeling that we are back there again, only this time the whole thing is overtly meaner, faster and...
Who decided your degree was worthless?
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For years, students in the arts, humanities, environmental studies and other degrees that do not lead neatly to one obvious job have been met with the same smug question — “What are you going...
Bill 48 manages appearances, not addiction
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What does it mean for Bill 48 to label detention as “care” when it allows 72-hour holds without a criminal charge?
This bill is a core shift in Manitoba’s protective detention legislation. The government frames...
Hockey played politics, then claimed it was ‘just a game’
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The Canadian men’s and women’s hockey losses at the Olympics were rough to watch. However, the fallout that followed quickly took centre stage, pushing hockey into the mainstream discourse far beyond the usual debates...
When the Olympics edit the world out of frame
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The Winter Olympics sell the same fantasy every four years — that sport can float above the world, as if the world will politely pause its wars, repression and crises until the closing ceremony....
A case for the love letter
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A handwritten letter makes you choose your words, and that choice is a kind of devotion. The moment is almost always the same — a pen, a quiet table and a blank page that feels...
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