The Anti-Ketchup Food Manifesto
Ketchup may actually be the perfect icon of all the things that are wrong with North American food culture. Every package sold is symbolic of…
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Sex and the campus
A chain is only as good as its weakest link, or so we’ve been told since we were in second grade. To set a person…
Top 10 trend tragedies for 2010
It seems like it was just August and it’s now 5 C, so it’s basically Thanksgiving, which means its practically Halloween, so it might as…
U of M takes part in waste reduction week
Every year in mid October, Canada and the rest of the world will participate in a weeklong event called Waste Reduction Week, promoting waste reduction…
Get with the times!
Enough is enough. As a Canadian citizen, I’m used to the federal political process that goes on in Ottawa. I’m accustomed to political gamesmanship between…
Sex and the campus
We all know that people act strangely in certain situations, but why is it that an almost impossibly dramatic change occurs when we go on…
Static prevails
Send and Receive, Winnipeg’s annual festival of sound, is on again this week and there’s nary a hook, harmony or hand-clap to be heard. Instead,…
Hurl from a top window
In his first work of creative non-fiction, the 13-year old Eric Valdemar wrote about war and childhood. Inspired by his hometown of Rostock in northern…
Healthy living for a lifetime
As a young person who is very health conscious, I am appalled at Toban Wiebe’s letter of Sept. 30 (“Ask a health and fitness specialist”;…
Events in science
Interested in getting more involved on and off campus? Want to see how professors spend their free time? Need something thrifty to do with your…