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Adam Cousins | 11/16/09
I trusted that all of the flowery phrases and praises you’ve been giving me really showed you had turned over a new leaf and weren’t the same old students’ union that hurt me in the past.
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Chris Webb and Jonny Sopotiuk | 11/2/09
As a former inner-city activist, Premier Greg Selinger is well aware of the problems faced by low-income Manitobans.
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Ineffective Tuition Fee Campaigns The CFS, through ex UMSU President Jonny Sopotiuk, repeatedly makes calls for the province to make tuition free (as recently as a press release on September 29th and on their [targetpoverta.ca][1] website). Whenever you talk to anyone from these circles about fees, you typically hear the repeated phrase, “well in Europe post secondary education is free.” What people consistently neglect to mention is that those Europeans pay a lot more taxes. Free education is not free. The money has to come from somewhere! Sweden and Denmark are regularly used as comparisons against our tuition fees. But people neglect to mention that they also have the highest net income taxes in the world. While Canada’s net income...
