Clash of civilizations?
It is worth appreciating the immense outcry that has flooded the pages of broadsheets in the days following the senseless slaughter of satirists. A series…
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Against political hipsterism
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, a number of political tropes have renewed their currency. There has been an awful lot of talk…
Time to stand up to radical Islamism
In the wake of the heinous massacre in Paris at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, it is time for Western democratic…
Beyond the evil
Pakistan is in the headlines once again. On December 16, 2014, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a notorious terrorist group, launched a deadly attack on a school killing…
A wake-up call for the best country in the world
In October, a disturbed and radicalized Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in cold blood while the reservist stood on guard at the National War…
Responding to Poloz
Last week Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, said to a House of Commons committee that out-of-work students should work for free to…
The facade of neutrality
In an article in the Nov. 12 issue of the Manitoban, “UMSU Gets it Right With Political Neutrality”, Ethan Cabel asserts that political action has…
re: UMSU political neutrality
While there are many qualms that I would raise with Ethan Cabel’s recent article around the perceived political neutrality of student unions, I would first…
UMSU gets it right with political neutrality
At a time when more and more Canadians are attending university at different stages in their lives and for vastly different reasons, the idea of…
Why I no longer vote strategically
The day before the mayoral election my social media feed was flooded with pleas from political pragmatists. Supporters of Brian Bowman were trying to persuade…