Blog Archive

• The Academy’s identity crisis

  Trevor Graumann – September 29, 2011

  The Academy in Osborne Village does several things and for that reason fails to be really good at any of them.

• Annals of legislation: Winnipeg business blockades

  Chris Hunter – September 28, 2011

  Faced with more terrifying financial obstacles than Manitoba, the people of Ontario manage to maintain more prosperous small businesses. As it seems, Winnipeg’s less sophisticated business regulations may play a large role in this distinction.

• Culture Factory #1: To whom do the rules apply?

  Aaron Snider – September 26, 2011

  Cycling is many things: a hobby, a way of getting around and even a way of life. It is not, however, as strictly or uniformly regulated as other forms of traffic. This week I want your feedback on the issues affecting cyclists, motorists and how they could or should share the road.

• The Uniter at NXNE, Part 2 - Wednesday, June 15

  Ayame – June 18, 2011

  With 650 bands in Toronto this week for the North by Northeast music festival, there’s a lot to choose from. This is what I checked out on Wednesday.

• The Uniter at NXNE, Part 1 - Tuesday, June 14

  Ayame – June 16, 2011

  Winnipeg’s The Details and Seattle’s David Bazan were highlights of pre-North by Northeasy festivities in Toronto on Tuesday, June 14.

• Confessions of a Former UWinnipeg Tutor

  Samuel Swanson – April 8, 2011

  An ode and goodbye to work as an interdisciplinary writing tutor.

• Do a couple Winnipeg bands have a lawsuit heading their direction?

  Matt Preprost – March 31, 2011

  Enjoy Your Pumas, meet Metro Station; Take Me To The Pilot, meet Kings of Leon.

• What is a tabloid?

  Andrew McMonagle – March 30, 2011

  Tabloid is not a pejorative.

• Genderless Journalism

  Kristy Rydz – March 29, 2011

  At the end of the day, news should be about telling the most accurate and balanced story possible, regardless of whether you were born with an X or a Y chromosome.

• Amen to libraries: City approves controversial 2011 operating budget

  Ethan Cabel – March 22, 2011

  This morning, city council voted 10-6 in favour of the 2011 operating budget—a spending plan that has sparked significant controversy, as well as a city-wide media campaign, over a proposed increase in the frontage levy for city properties and a hike in recreation fees.

• Federal election? Not bloody likely.

  Ethan Cabel – March 17, 2011

  I have spent the last several months obsessively following what has become a virtual echo-chamber of punditry around the possibility of a federal election this spring.

• An open letter to the person who stole my bike seat

  Andrew McMonagle – March 16, 2011

  Really? Seriously. Really?

• Keep your bus conversations PG, please

  Catherine van Reenen – March 16, 2011

  No one needs to hear about your sex life on the bus.

• The pursuit of happiness

  Lauren Parsons – March 9, 2011

  The 2011 Happiness Project Challenge.

• Strike haiku

  Britt Embry – March 5, 2011

  The possibility of a UWFA strike, explored in haiku.

• Busy week on campus

  Andrew McMonagle – March 3, 2011

  Evacuations, elections and strikes.

• L2Read

  Catherine van Reenen – March 2, 2011

  It’s not your server’s fault that you’re illiterate.

• Are your friends making you fat?

  Kristy Rydz – March 1, 2011

  Friends let friends eat poorly.

• What are you doing March 21st?

  Karlene Ooto-Stubbs – February 28, 2011

  We need to increase voter turnout for the UWSA elections.

• The things that you lack bring you back to the thing that you need

  Matt Preprost – February 25, 2011

  The last time the Uniter spoke with singer-songwriter Matt Epp, he was taking a much deserved break from a 150-show tour that took him from B.C. to Newfoundland, to California to Mexico. However, not much has changed about Epp’s tireless work effort, it appears.