Australia you’ve changed me
Any avid traveler can testify that leaving a country you have just explored and fallen in love with can be a heart wrenching and difficult…
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Sex and the campus
I, like many people, previously had a love affair. It lasted quite a while, but has recently been on hold for a prolonged period of…
Those damned election signs
They are green and blue and yellow. They loudly proclaim “Re-Elect Sam Katz” or “Judy for Mayor!” They are a mixture of plastic and sawdust….
Sex and the campus
The advertising and marketing executives are always looking for untapped markets, and so it is with dating. We are always looking for people we haven’t…
BA not a path to a McJob
When it comes to finding employment after graduation, arts degrees are sometimes viewed as useless. However, the faculty of arts at the University of Manitoba…
Capitalism wasn’t destroyed in a day
Soon after starting The Plan, I realized how tiresome it would become and how complicated it was to answer the question, “So, what do you…
If you don’t vote, don’t complain
As students, there is rarely a time in our lives when we do not have something to complain about. Anything from long lines at Starbucks,…
Real-life witches that don’t celebrate Halloween?
When you think of Wicca, do you imagine a really weird pseudo-religion that involves creepy ladies surrounding a bubbling cauldron, tossing in human eyeballs and…
It should get better
In response to a recent rash of LGBT*-teen suicides, Dan Savage and his partner sat down and made a video. The video setup was simple,…
Love in the time of class war
In the winter of ’09 my life was a spectacular failure in every way imaginable. I was a law school dropout, a call centre dropout…