Letter from the editor: A case for the student fee referendum March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 Myles Sauer 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 February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 Martlet Staff 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 February 23, 2017 Jeremiah Kopp 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 in discarding...
Trudeau’s unabashed abandonment of electoral reform a disappointment February 23, 2017 Anna Dodd “It would be easier to do nothing and sit back and just say, ‘Okay, you know what, this worked for us, I think we can make this current system work...
Asian erasure in Hollywood is more than just skin deep February 23, 2017 Michelle Yun As both a South Korean immigrant and a pop-culture junkie, I grew up searching for Asian representation in the TV shows and movies I watched — kind of a weird, racialized version...
Trump’s ‘war on science’: Just ask Canada February 16, 2017 Sonia Hrynchyshyn On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump announced a temporary media and funding black-out that effectively gagged federal science agencies (including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Health Department)...
Letters—Feb. 9 February 9, 2017February 8, 2017 Letters Re: "Let the students edit," Jan. 26 Dear Editor, The editorial is quite surprising to read, since I was always under the assumption that peer edited work was always supported by educational...
Lift the ban on discussion February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 Kyra Kristmanson Standing against injustice starts in the classroom Last Monday, Jan. 30, I sat down for my morning lecture with an expectation: a discussion about Islamophobia. I’m an undergraduate member of the...
Double exposure: Why we published the uncensored 1992 Martlet cover February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 Martlet Staff Before you read this, we hope you’ve taken the time to look at our feature story, “UnCovered: The Story of Student Newspapers, Advocacy Journalism, and Genitalia.” If you did, you likely...
Bad Date Confessions: Volume Three February 8, 2017February 17, 2017 Anonymous I was in my first year at UVic, and I was going on only the second or third date I’d ever been on in my life. He picked me up...
