Marching in Shoalidarity
On September 12, hundreds of protestors marched from the Manitoba legislature to the Winnipeg Aqueduct Monument to raise awareness for the dire water situation in…
Canada
Harper’s war on news media
Canada’s 42nd general election campaign is now well under way and the media is in full campaign coverage mode, although for one party that might not mean much.
Questions remain over resignation of UBC president
VANCOUVER – It’s fair to say that almost no one saw it coming. On Friday, Aug. 7, University of British Columbia (UBC) president Arvind Gupta…
Psychiatry professor sheds light on PTSD with federal research grant
University of Manitoba psychiatry professor Jitender Sareen received just under $2 million from the federal Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) this summer to fund…
Child mental health researcher gets funding boost from feds
Three University of Manitoba researchers have become the recipients of over $3 million in health research Foundation Grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), providing long-term, stable support to top Canadian health researchers.
Business as usual
Everything loses beauty with overexposure. Even the sunrise becomes devalued when one sees it constantly with tired eyes from the seat of a 747. Cycles…
Lotus-eater vibes
It goes without saying that British Columbia is rotten with hippies. Especially in summer, when the gentle people travel from many provinces and countries to…
Peace, bound
We are all entitled to support whom we choose and to give voice to that choice. To listen to our conscience and act upon the things it tells us about the world. If we do so without violence, there can be no case for the use of government force against us. In a free and just society, the use of government power to punish individuals for speaking their beliefs, no matter how unpopular, is oppression.
U of M budget woes a function of weak provincial leadership
The modern student movement, namely the Canadian Federation of Students and their ilk, has accomplished something that is at once absurd and increasingly detrimental: they…
The toilet wars
There was a brief period, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, when Canada was a major supplier of bootleg toilets to the United…