Basketball The men’s basketball team finished their season on Feb. 11 with an 88-65 loss to the University of Winnipeg Wesmen. The Bisons outscored their opponents 24-13 in the fourth quarter but it wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit and defeat the Wesmen who earned their first victory of the regular season. With the loss, [...]
Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks that are over two billion years old. The precambrian, the longest and oldest of the geological ages, spans from when the earth first formed, somewhere around 4.6 billion years ago, [...]
For anyone who questions the inherent goodness at the core of the human spirit, the story of Faron Hall should quiet their doubts. This man, without a home, without a family, without a sense of belonging, has saved the lives of two people who would otherwise have drowned. This courageous man, however, is now in [...]
According to The Vancouver Poverty Olympics, a group of citizens who oppose the 2010 winter games, Vancouver’s lavish spending in order to host the Olympic Games could have been more justly spent. Hosting the Olympics resulted in a loss of some major cash that could have, in theory, alleviated local social disasters, such as the [...]
YOU STINK AND I’M GETTING SICK It just happened again. My attempt at being a good and successful student is being thwarted by the guy who took the cubicle across from me. The stink is killing me.. I can handle that he threw his bag down on the desk-top without regard for the noise it [...]
I had a laugh when a fictitious animal rights activist sprayed red paint all over Samantha’s crisp white fur coat in Sex and the City. But a whole other genre of hysteria overcame me as a real activist smacked Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea in the face with a pie. Granted, there’s nothing funny [...]
Following the failed terrorist bombing onboard a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, the United States has seized the opportunity to further their destructive foreign policy in Yemen, all while advancing corporate interests in the security industry at the expense of civil liberties. Although the only man arrested, Umar Abdulmutallab, was a [...]
Last week, the Manitoban printed an article by Spencer Fernando titled “Why our generation must support Israel.” Amidst the various boilerplate Zionist arguments, Fernando calls for “set[ting] the record straight” and discussion to reach common ground. While discussion alone cannot end the conflict (only the dismantling of systems of Israeli oppression can), and anyone attempting [...]
The only way to avoid the crushing moment-to-moment parade of utter hopelessness that is “life” is to give up now. Believe me, it is beautiful relief to lie prone, on the floor, detached and drooling, doing fuck-all, forever. It almost makes living bearable. In fact, I think of all the people out there who haven’t [...]
“Yacht rock.” “No Wave.” “Late-Baroque contrapunctual Galante.” “Miami Booty Bass.” People – usually non-musicians – seem to possess a near-militant will to categorize music into genres. And while such labels might provide a touchstone things like “conversation” and/or “common understanding,” they are also – to paraphrase Joseph Conrad – “the great enemy of reality.” Take [...]