Basic income is a band-aid solution
Universal basic income (UBI) is the application of the radical, and somewhat devious, idea that citizens, for some reason, deserve to have their basic needs…
Canada
Canada’s housing crisis culmination of capitalism
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives closed out the better part of a decade of austerity consistently, if nothing else. The Manitoba government has reportedly sold off more…
Pumpkin and spice and everything nice
Being raised in the outskirts of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of Southern California, I was deprived of actual seasons until I moved to…
The indignity of grad students’ frozen federal funds
Returning to campus for the fall semester, many of us will ignore displeased hissing as the most miserable members of the U of M retreat…
Communities need local newspapers
Anybody living in Manitoba from mid-July onward knew about the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MLL) strike for fair wages and what it meant for the…
Government inaction in landfill search is negligence in action
In 2017, I attended Tanya Talaga’s talk at the Millennium Library where she was promoting her book, Seven Fallen Feathers. Part of Talaga’s book is…
Illicit drug supply horrors demand action
A substance called xylazine has been popping up in Street Connections’ and SaferSites’ overdose reports. Xylazine — or tranq as it is known on the…
Prime minister comes to campus, discusses 2023 federal budget
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance on campus today to discuss the 2023-24 federal budget. Dozens of students gathered around the back entrance of…
Stop mislabelling in politics
If you follow politics, even on a surface level, you have probably seen someone attack a political figure such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or…
Why you should still care about Ukraine
The African proverb goes, “when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” It takes a war to understand that civilians are the grass who…