Nationwide study explores the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ Canadians facing poverty
Pride season in Canada, held from June to September, is a time of celebration for the 2SLGBTQ+ community and those who love them. Pride involves…
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U of M promises legal action if pro-Palestinian encampment not dismantled
Vice provost and vice-president (academic) Dianne Hiebert-Murphy released a statement on behalf of the university last Tuesday stating that the U of M would “pursue…
Pride picnic aims to foster community
The Manitoba 2SLGBTQIA+ Student Action Coalition is hosting its first pride picnic at Assiniboine Park on Saturday, July 27. Rainbow Pride Centre president and UMSU…
Youth are fighting the climate crisis
Climate change is something that a lot of people can get away with ignoring until they come face to face with it. My first clash…
A nation hungry for change
While strolling the trenches of the grocery aisles, I am comforted by my rows of emergency soup cans, beans and chickpeas not-so-neatly piled up in…
Palestine solidarity encampment ongoing at U of M
Students and community members at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus, led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), established an encampment on the…
As an ‘ideas museum,’ CMHR is giving us the wrong idea
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has been criticized since before its opening in 2014. Several ethnic communities have felt that their stories were…
Students should support faculty strikes
Strikes are meant to be disruptive. There is no way around it, because protesting for rights while meeting the needs of the administration workers are…
Look to other university strikes when U of M is quiet
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…
Inclusive sports club fosters much-needed campus community
Sports, the people who play them, and the community fostered around them, have always fascinated me. As a queer person, getting involved in sports organizations…