Simon Pensato

Feb 14, 2024 | themanitoban.com | Simon Pensato |Dallin Chicoine

As a kid, I had a fraught relationship with Victoria’s Secret window displays, an experience shared by many current and former queer women. Obviously, the displays were meant to be looked at and the models were intended to be attractive, but even at a young age I knew that people like me were not supposed to want to look at those images. Although I was a scrawny and somewhat timid seven-year-old, I thought I was dangerous for thinking girls were cute.

Feb 6, 2024 | themanitoban.com | Simon Pensato |Teegan Gillich

Can I offer you some constructive criticism? Many readers may reflexively cringe at that question, which makes sense. For many of us, criticism feels primarily like a threat. As someone who relies on student loans and wage labour to get by, if I get too much “constructive criticism” from my profs or my boss, I could fail out of school or lose my job, and therefore wouldn’t have money to buy groceries or pay the bills.

Jan 30, 2024 | themanitoban.com | Simon Pensato

University of Manitoba nursing student and former senior stick of the U of M Nursing Students’ Association Arij Al Khafagi’s status as a student has been reinstated. Al Khafagi was previously suspended following social media posts she made that were critical of the Israeli government, which U of M administration deemed antisemitic. On a post to her Instagram on Monday, Jan.

Oct 10, 2023 | themanitoban.com | Simon Pensato |Dallin Chicoine

Winnipeg will mark its 150-year anniversary on Nov. 8, 2023. In the lead-up to civic celebrations, it is important to look at what Winnipeg’s incorporation meant to people at the time. The recent victory of premier-designate Wab Kinew’s Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) was historic. It also calls us to look back into why Kinew would become the first First Nations premier of this province, which was founded by Indigenous people, over 150 years after it joined Confederation in 1870.