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Comment | September 30th 2010
Cycling safety not a top-down issue
Bike lanes are a hot item in Winnipeg. Even though sustainable transportation hasn’t had the role in the civic election campaign that many hoped it would, it is hard to overlook the large amount of money currently being spent on cycling (coupled with pedestrian) infrastructure. more »
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Comment | September 30th 2010
Bridging academia and indigenous environmental philosophy
During periods of colonization, empires tend to reinforce their knowledge systems over indigenous peoples. more »
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Comment | September 30th 2010
Of progress and the tall grass prairie
In Manitoba, tall grass prairie ecosystems once covered much of the southern third of the province, encompassing 6,000 square kilometers. Less than one per cent of this total remains today. more »
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Good & Evil with J. Williamez | September 30th 2010
Fare thee well
If you are reading this right now, it means that I will have played my last weekly show at Shannon’s Irish Pub. more »
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Good & Evil with J. Williamez | September 23rd 2010
Why everyone is an idiot
I’m partway into my second year of the creative communications program at Red River College, and I’m learning some really interesting things. more »
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Comment | September 23rd 2010
The Better Voter Series: You can’t fight city hall… or so the saying goes
The obstacles facing citizen groups and social justice advocates who attempt to influence policy decisions at the municipal level can seem insurmountable. Indeed, this sentiment may have something to do with the abysmally low voter turnout that typically dogs civic elections. more »
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Comment | September 23rd 2010 | 1
The Better Voter Series: Accountability lost: Winnipeg 2004 – 2010
Three pillars of accountable government are transparency, integrity and honesty. With the upcoming civic election getting closer, we should examine the last six years of city politics since Sam Katz was elected as mayor and see what kind of a government we've had. more »
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Comment | September 23rd 2010
Soft language softens meaning
I noticed a funny thing the other day while watching the evening news. People don't get raped in Winnipeg anymore. They get beaten, killed, shot, stabbed, hit by cars and even set on fire. But they don't get raped. Isn't that nice? more »
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Campus | September 23rd 2010
Cutting structural deficit will be hard without cutting out neoliberal ideology
When Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page released his Fiscal Sustainability Report in January, explaining among other things that the debt will explode to 200 per cent of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product by 2050 if current fiscal policy is maintained, you’d think that the media or the federal opposition would pay attention to it for more than a month. more »
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Comment | September 16th 2010
Exploring the aid gap in Pakistan
Pakistan has fallen victim to the worst natural disaster of the decade. The United Nations has classified it as worse than the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake,and the 2010 Haitian earthquake combined. more »
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