Opinion
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Real environmental leaders
Which of the following groups has the best chance of mitigating and adapting to climate change, spurring innovation to lead a high tech economy and developing renewable energy on a mass scale for those people and areas of the world who can’t afford it?
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What we can learn from Detroit
After more than half a century of decline, Detroit - the symbol of urban America’s dramatic rise and fall - is making a modest comeback.
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Quebec student movement, Occupy Wall Street replete with flaws
As thousands of Quebecers continue to defiantly take to the streets of Montreal against Premier Jean Charest’s Liberal government, their indignation has been compared to the Occupy Wall Street movement that stole headlines across North America and much of the developed world last fall.
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Shit my guy friends say
While I consider myself to be traditionally feminine in many ways, I relate to men better than I do women.
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Street harassment is everyone’s problem
Recently I was out jogging in Wolseley wearing baggy sweatpants and a hoodie, and as I passed a young man on the sidewalk, he slapped me on the rear.
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Healthy strategies for a healthy summer
As we get more beautiful weather this spring and summer, it will encourage more Winnipeggers to get outside and become more active through recreational sports or going to the park - usually in preparation for weddings, the lake and the beach.
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Reflections on festival season
Festival season is fast approaching and Winnipeople will soon flock to the many festivals that fill this city’s sweet, sunny months, enjoying our town’s neighbourhoods, cultures and arts.
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Have the confidence to be yourself
When I was 18, I met my first real boyfriend, “Eddie.”
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If I were the mayor of Winnipeg…
We asked our regular comments contributors and our readers what they would do if they had Sam Katz’s job. This is what they had to say.
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Forty years after its inception, Unicity is generally considered a noble failure
A person born in the 1990s will be forgiven if they are unfamiliar with the fact that the city in which they currently reside is not the same one that existed prior to Jan. 1, 1972.
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Winning back City Hall with small victories
Over the course of several years working for The Uniter and following the day-to-day events at City Hall, I have noticed a propensity among Winnipeg administrators and politicians to skirt responsibility when faced with media inquiries and public criticism.
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What really happened on 9/11?
In 2010, prominent anti-war critic George Galloway came to Winnipeg as part of a multi-city speaking tour entitled “Free Palestine, Free Afghanistan, Free Speech.”
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Shifting direction
Within the past few weeks, Canada has seen a monumental resurgence in student activism, as hundreds of thousands of students in Quebec have mobilized to the streets to protest Premier Jean Charest’s plan to increase tuition fees within the province.
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An interesting month in Afghanistan
It has been an excellent month for the Taliban.
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Out of the black and into the blue
If I had a time machine, the first place I’d see would be Winnipeg a hundred years ago.
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NDP leadership race is on as party battles over its soul
Over the last two months, I have been conducting interviews with each of the federal NDP leadership candidates in the lead-up to this weekend’s (March 23-24) historic convention, where the party will choose its new leader.
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Getting back on track
Is Manitoba the new Greece?
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Your new fitness appointment
Chances are you’ve used the word “appointment” more than once in your vocabulary so far this year.
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The pros and cons of Kony 2012
In 1985, the world’s trendiest part-time activists advertised and effected an awareness campaign, LiveAid, garnered massive public support, incurred a critical intellectual backlash, peaked and fell into history.
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Missing the mark
In mid-February, Winnipeg Harvest and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg released its Aceptable Living Level (ALL) report for 2012.