Making hockey more inclusive
Three education professors from multiple universities have joined to study hypermasculine culture within elite men’s hockey and what current and former players do to combat…
social issues
COVID-19 should wake governments up to the potential of climate catastrophe
For decades, the scientific community has gradually issued more pointed warnings about the dangerous impact that our changing climate will have on humankind and the…
Siloam Mission’s CEO is silencing Indigenous voices and reproducing colonial hierarchies
Former staff members of Siloam Mission, a local Christian charity, and the “Not My Siloam” movement are revealing violently colonial parallels in the charitable organization’s…
Associate professor educates the educators
University of Manitoba associate professor Robert Mizzi was named a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in queer, community and diversity education last fall. Mizzi was awarded…
Community Projects program teaches through experience
Even in the midst of a pandemic, community engaged learning (CEL) at the U of M has maintained its goal of providing students and community…
U of M hosts commemoration, human rights roundtable
The University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) hosted a roundtable Dec. 4 titled “Commemoration Matters: History, Human Rights, and the Politics of…
Mayor Bowman’s lack of resolve on display
In response to the Black Lives Matter rallies across North America this spring, Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman claimed, “Winnipeg is listening.” The next Friday, on…
New voting regulations improve accessibility
Democracies around the world utilize many different methods for conducting elections. Some countries have made voting compulsory, while citizens in other nations consider it to…
Inequality shining through global lockdown curtains
Elon Musk has long been a skeptic of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. When California went into its initial lockdown in March 2020 and…
Journalism is intertwined with the act of remembering
Every Sunday morning growing up, I would walk down my home’s green-carpeted flight of stairs to a kitchen enriched by the smell of dark roast…