Opinion
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The myth of easy money
There is a widespread assumption that if you want an education, you can just get a loan. But for independent students with other expenses like mortgages or car payments, paying for school is not always easy.
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Experience is education
Determining what to do with your life can be a daunting task, but through the thick of it, what really matters is that you do what fulfills you, even if it takes time to figure out what that is. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want in this life, and more of that time has been spent changing my mind than actually accomplishing my goals. But I’ve come to learn that education along the journey can be just as rewarding as reaching a destination.
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The myth of youth apathy
If the Maclean’s debate failed to produce a decisive moment or “knockout blow,” it did reveal one important truth: young people are not apathetic. We’re alienated from a political process that overlooks the most pressing issues we face.
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New year, new U
This year, we want to keep giving you the local, alternative arts coverage that you’ve come to count on, and also renew our commitment to our humble home here on campus.
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Living well together
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations cover many structural changes that need to happen in our government, legal system and churches. For those of us not in positions to make these structural changes, how do we begin to reconcile at an individual, neighbour to neighbour level?
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SURVIVAL TIPS FOR FESTIVAL CAMPING
Ah, the festival season, it creeps upon us again. As we drain our bank accounts preparing for our excursions, remember that good experiences come with good preparation.
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SO YOU DON’T WANT TO CAMP… WHAT’S NEXT?
Summer is here and so is camping! I love camping so I was shocked that, while planning a weekend trip to Falcon Lake with some friends, only my boyfriend and I wanted to camp. Everyone else wanted to stay in a motel.
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WHAT NOT TO WEAR THIS SUMMER
Festival season can mean many things to a lot of different people. Universally, it seems to promise good music, fun, and a forum in which you can test the waters by pushing your daily fashion in directions you normally wouldn’t. While for a lot of folks this might mean shirking the casual business attire in favour of a flow-y skirt or some rad shorteralls, some still unfortunately connote freedom and fashion with headdresses and bindis.
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SEX, DRUGS AND DRESSING UP
Sex, drugs, and dressing up. Most people will agree that these are a huge part of music festivals, whether or not they choose to partake in them. Festivals, especially the ones people camp at, draw a huge party crowd of young adults willing to try new things and push their limits.
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DON’T STOP BELIEVING
Self-deprecation is a Winnipeg trademark. It’s engraved in the city’s character alongside polite small talk about how cold the winter was/is/will be and the quiet fear that one day, Jets fans will riot. Self-deprecation is also the reason that the phrase, “I really like Winnipeg!” comes with a tone of transgression, the careful cadence of an unpopular opinion.
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WELL, THAT’S GARBAGE
After a long winter (and several additional mini-winters) it’s that time again in Winnipeg…patio season.
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The 7th Annual Summer Festival Guide
36 Manitoba fests and the advice you need to make it through.
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The Urban Issue 2015
Winnipeg is _______.
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Well, That’s Garbage
As a student, dating-wise, you’ve got it made. Since reaching sexual maturity, you have been surrounded by single people your own age.
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Winnipeg Is: Slow to wake up
Downtown Winnipeg is an emerging district. The thing is, emerging takes time. Think about yourself emerging from bed on a dark, Winnipeg winter morning. It’s a process.
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Winnipeg Is: Strange bylaws
It’s no surprise that governments waste an absurd amount of time on arbitrary and unnecessary endeavors. Important tasks get put on the backburner while resources are wasted on the least pressing issues. There are few examples more emblematic of this dichotomy than the weird historical legislation of Winnipeg’s psychics.
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Winnipeg Is: Opportunities/Limits
Why do you live in Winnipeg?
Isolated in the middle of the continent and frigid temperatures for half of the year, the reasons people settle in Manitoba’s capital city are as vast as the suffocating fields surrounding the perimeter highway.
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Freethinking
Respecting the liberty of others can be difficult. Of course, we know that our choices are rational, but it’s all those other people who can’t be trusted. When people are free, they make a lot of choices we may disagree with. We look at the behaviour of others and often wonder how they could possibly justify their actions. It isn’t long before we may be tempted to move from judging other people’s actions to changing their behaviour.
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Up All Night: Insomnia and the internet
I’ve always had mixed feelings about The Uniter’s regular Up All Night column. On one hand, I like reading about the after-dark Winnipeg experience. But as a lifelong insomniac, the words “up all night” rarely hold positive connotations. When you have a sleep disorder, being up all night isn’t a choice you make, it’s just a thing that happens.
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War, Islamophobia and Patriarchy
In Canada's war against the Islamic State the domestic position has been to stoke Islamophobia amongst the conservative base by repeating jingoist messages about the threat of terrorism and by invoking the rights of women that Canada is supposedly standing up for.