We owe Afolabi Stephen Opaso remembrance and action
Right at the year’s close, news that 19-year-old U of M international student Afolabi Stephen Opaso was killed by police on Dec. 31, 2023 shook…
social issues
Dystopian contests show our unstable finances
When driving to campus, I usually wallow in self-doubt or think about my thesis. I will also have the radio playing in the background, the…
The need for community and care
Growing up in Manitoba as a queer mixed Japanese Canadian, I cannot overstress the importance of maintaining safe and inclusive communities. After emerging from COVID-19…
Who gets to dictate new speech?
Fashion can be a funny thing. Some people seem able to spot style trends and are the earliest adopters of what is new. Others wait…
There is solidarity in poverty at university
The experiences I’ve carried with me from a life in and out of various states of poverty were ones I frequently felt alienated by. I…
UM project to address anti-Blackness in higher education
Research Manitoba announced its 2023 New Investigator Operating Grant recipients earlier this month. The grants will be supporting 12 projects led by researchers in the…
A race-conscious critique of The Lord of the Rings films
Over the break I had a movie marathon of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films. I ended up watching the franchise four times…
Video game workers need to further unionize in 2024
2023 was great for gamers. An incredible amount of fantastic new video games were released, like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of…
The dangers of exaggeration in the news
As a linguistics graduate and former student journalist who now works in communications, I am well aware of the power of words. It seems that,…
Palestine Teach-In: In our own words
We write as faculty who are part of the Palestine Teach-In Collective. We seek to address bad-faith criticisms and attempts to cancel our event, “Palestine…