Making noise to support prisoners
In May of 2012, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a plan of the federal government’s to implement changes to prisoners’ wages. At the time,…
social issues
Gender discrimination: two wrongs don’t make a right
Meg Bergeron Many feminists think misandry isn’t real. Not even my spellcheck thinks misandry is real. But it has become painfully obvious to me, as…
‘Turning the crank’
Students and faculty gathered in the engineering building on Tuesday for an armchair session on Ethics and Engineering Education. The event, co-sponsored by the Faculty…
A great consolation
Caleigh MacDonald, staff I do not know what it’s like to be dying, but I know better than most what it feels like to lose…
A wearable history
History is written in many forms – through buildings and books, our everyday lives, and the clothes we wear. In the latest exhibit from the…
Mental health and poverty
Bruce Tefft It is a well-established fact that rates of mental disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, schizophrenia) within the general population are strongly correlated with income….
‘Is it really about the money?’
It would be hard to ignore the current debates around abortion on the U of M campus, which started with large graphic images, and have…
Bloody hypocrisy
Bradly Wohlgemuth, staff “Blood. It’s in you to give.” Apparently it’s not inside everybody for giving – for example, someone like me, a bisexual male….
Pro-life on U of M campus
After three days of pro-life demonstrations and counter-demonstrations on the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry Campus, the former making use of graphic genocide imagery, a…
Call for childcare reform
A group of parents gathered at the Children’s Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 18 to discuss issues facing the Manitoba childcare system. The resounding majority of parents…