U of M not alone in housing dispute
As South Winnipeg-St. Norbert councillor Janice Lukes prepares to form a residents’ association to combat illegal housing around the University of Manitoba, she is increasingly…
social issues
U of M takes steps toward affirmative consent
Since the beginning of this school year, students at the University of Manitoba have been bombarded by a rising number of messages promoting consensual sexual…
Who stands with Ahmed?
It seemed like a normal Monday. Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, began the school week just like any…
Blood politics
By highlighting MSM as an exposure category, current data collection and reporting methods support Canadian Blood Services’ screening practices. If UMSU wants screening practices to focus on specific high-risk behaviours, it needs data collection to also focus on specific high-risk behaviours.
City councillor ramps up fight against illegal housing
South Winnipeg-St. Norbert Coun. Janice Lukes is setting up a residents’ association to address a growing problem around the University of Manitoba – the proliferation…
U of M to apply for provincial child care grant
The University of Manitoba announced last week that it will be applying to the province for a grant of up to $600,000 to fund the…
‘That’s not fair!’
It seems to be something of a trend with people my age to confuse their own interests with the common good. The idea that it is somehow unfair for us to not have all our desires (and a lot of what we call needs are really just desires) met is not a healthy mindset, though it is increasingly widespread. Seeing unfairness as a state of discontent is a big part of why we live in such an unjust society: we are willing to put up with a lot, so long as things seem “fair” for number one.
It’s not just young people, of course – though I think that as digital technology permeates more and more of our lives, we are more likely to be susceptible to it. The social media we use is designed to show us the things we like to see; algorithms track what we click on and deliver more of the same. We get a false idea of how much the world agrees with us and of how important we are in the grand scheme of things.
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.
Campus child care inaccessible, unaffordable, says report
Day care is largely unavailable and unaffordable for University of Manitoba student parents, and more child care spaces are desperately needed on campus. That is…
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.