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Letter: Those on the left need to deal with dissenting voices
Re: “In the debate over free speech, there are no clear winners,” March 9 As well meaning as the editor’s sentiments are in your editorial “In the debate over free…UVSS elections are a mess. It’s time to wipe the slate clean
In case you didn’t know, the UVSS just held its annual student election, in which students selected seventeen other students to act on their behalf on campus, in the greater…EDITORIAL: In the debate over free speech, there are no clear winners
On Wednesday, March 1, the UVic Effective Altruism club hosted an event where they invited philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer to do a Skype Q&A, following a screening of his…
B.C. budget raises hopes when we should be raising questions
On Feb. 21, the B.C. Liberals released their 2017 budget — the last before the provincial election on May 9. The budget includes increased funding for education, child welfare, and a ‘Prosperity…Liberal hack-usations backfire, political diversions continue
In early February, the B.C. Liberals claimed that their party’s website had been hacked, basing their accusations on the few hours where private information of Vancouver Island residents who had…Letter from the editor: A case for the student fee referendum
Over the last few days of what I hoped would be a very chill student election campaign period, I’ve been struggling with the opposition to one of the two referendums…EDITORIAL: Acting smug about Canada is to our own detriment
When President Donald Trump issued an executive order halting the intake of travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations on Jan. 28, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted in response, “To those fleeing…Trudeau is right to scrap electoral reform
More pressing matters require federal attention This article originally appeared in The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba’s student newspaper, on Feb. 16, 2017. WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have reneged on an election promise…Our Digital Print Issue
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