Traditional and non-western ways of knowing are often othered in the sciences. Oftentimes, people refer to western medicine as “conventional” and traditional medicine as “alternative.”  For example, Indigenous communities in Canada used controlled burning to...

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) was unable to present its recent referendum results at the Canadian Federation of Students’ National General Meeting in Ottawa, Ont. near the start of the fall term...

I’ve noticed how invested Canadians are in U.S. politics, and how that investment has turned to involvement. I have a foot in both camps. I am American and Canadian, and have lived in Canada the last six...

I think that that most of us reading this are at the age where we feel like we are doing what we think we need to do, but not what we actually need to do. Coming...

A strike mandate was approved by 96.5 per cent of the 55,000 workers represented by the Ontarian School Board Council of Unions. The council demanded a wage increase of $3.25 an hour per year, equal pay...

As we move further into November, I still find myself thinking of summer. I think back to the heat, the feeling of relaxation and, most importantly, no school. Lately, there’s another thing that I’ve thinking about...

Our body breaks down the food we consume into glucose and transforms it into cellular energy. Insulin — a hormone produced in the pancreas — functions in regulating our blood glucose.   Diabetes is a metabolic...