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Bringing Nigerian heritage close to U of M

In honour of Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day, the U of M Nigerian Students Association (UMNISA) organized a five-day event featuring activities...
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Roy Albright Obah
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A treat with HOPE

U of M Healthcare Outreach Program and Events (HOPE) is having a bake sale on Oct. 13 and 15 to support Breast...
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Arifah Gheesah
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Grinding through the injuries

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Coming off the 2-1 loss against the MacEwan Griffins on Sept. 27, where the herd had chances of tying the game but failed to capitalize their opportunities, the Bisons soccer team decided to prove...
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Comment

The Manitoban horoscope for the week of Oct. 5

By
Quinn Mayhew
Aquarius January 20 – February 18 Aquarius, the show Dancing with the Stars calls to you this week. You crave the drama and excitement, but perhaps we should leave the drama on the back burner, as...
Emma Gillich
Comment

Not one more Jane Doe

By
Quinn Mayhew
CAUTION: This article contains explicit language and discusses cases of sexual violence at Cornell University and the U of M. As a woman, I am so angry.  I am exhausted of reading the handbook of How...
Emma Gillich
Editorial

No more “Red October” for the old man

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
The first time I saw the Adidas x BAPE Ultraboost first Green Camo sneakers, I just knew I had to get them. After all, I was a naive teenager blown away by American hype...
Emma Gillich
Arts & Culture

U of M Symphony Orchestra to perform Academic Festival

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
The U of M Symphony Orchestra (UMSO) is joining forces with the Winnipeg Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) for Academic Festival, UMSO’s first concert of the 2026-27 season.  On the evening of Oct. 9, the audience...
Zulkifl Rafah
Arts & Culture

Firing up at 1000 Miles Apart

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
U of M hosted 1000 Miles Apart, an annual ceramics conference, from Oct. 1 to 3, welcoming visiting artists and students into the ARTlab for talks, demonstrations and exhibitions. Abigail Grenke, the president of the...
Sports

Why we run

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Winnipeg is shaped by the water that flows through the Red River and the Assiniboine River. Where the rivers influence the city landscape, similarly the climate in Winnipeg influences the outdoor activities for Winnipeggers. Street...
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Sports

The wolves are no threat to the Bisons

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
The Bisons women’s basketball team played against the Lakehead Thunderwolves on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4. The game on Saturday was their second game of the season and it was nothing short...
Zulkifl Rafah

Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

U of M students to stage Irreconcilable Differences

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
U of M students are staging the first Lunchbhagg production of the school year with the comedic play Irreconcilable Differences. Written by Canadian playwright JL Allen and directed by fifth-year theatre student Nadia Holmes, the play...
Arts & Culture

Inside the lives of Indonesia’s gig drivers

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
The Architecture 2 Gallery (A2G) at the U of M presented Life Behind the Ride on Oct. 8, exhibiting photographs that depict the challenges and risks faced by Indonesia’s delivery and rideshare drivers, but...
Arts & Culture

Meet U of M’s Gen Z virtuoso composer

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
It is not every day you meet a 22-year-old composer and concert pianist on campus, but Ari Hooker is exactly that. Now in the last semester of his degree in piano performance at U of...
Zulkifl Rafah
Arts & Culture

U of M Symphony Orchestra to perform Academic Festival

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
The U of M Symphony Orchestra (UMSO) is joining forces with the Winnipeg Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) for Academic Festival, UMSO’s first concert of the 2026-27 season.  On the evening of Oct. 9, the audience...
Zulkifl Rafah
Arts & Culture

Firing up at 1000 Miles Apart

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
U of M hosted 1000 Miles Apart, an annual ceramics conference, from Oct. 1 to 3, welcoming visiting artists and students into the ARTlab for talks, demonstrations and exhibitions. Abigail Grenke, the president of the...
Arts & Culture

Sterling Point is a paradigm shift in teenage drama

By
Macayla Riney-Lucas
Every now and then, a television show comes along that makes you feel seen. Sterling Point is that show for me.  It captures so perfectly the inner lives of Gen Z, how we relate to...
Arts & Culture

U of M hosts fine art and music homecoming

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
ARTlab and the Taché Arts Complex were buzzing with activity on the night of Sept. 23 for the school of art and Desautels faculty of music homecoming. This is the first joint homecoming between...
Zulkifl Rafah
Arts & Culture

Love Medicine at the MacKenzie Art Gallery

By
Madison Beale
Love Medicine, a highly anticipated group show by Indigiqueer artists, opened June 12 at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Sask. Curated by Métis art historian Michelle McGeough, the exhibition explores how contemporary Indigiqueer...
Madison Beale
Arts & Culture

The ‘Toban takes on Nuit Blanche (again)

By
Manitoban staff
Boris Tsun Hang Leung, arts and culture editor Nuit Blanche returned to Winnipeg on Sept. 26, bringing art installations and performances to downtown Winnipeg, the Exchange District and St. Boniface throughout the night. The 2026...
Zulkifl Rafah
Arts & Culture

If sacredness had a colour, what would it be?

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Colours of sacredness might summon mystical visuals of gilded religious texts or richly decorated places of worship, but for hannah_g, its hues are all around us. Galerie Buhler Gallery in St. Boniface Hospital opened What...
Arts & Culture

‘Toban turntable

By
Mikaela Warkentin
4.5/5 True Mountain Laurel, the joint project between Haley Blais and Sam Lynch, released their debut album Angel So Bad on Aug. 28. Under Winnipeg’s own Birthday Cake Records, Angel So Bad leans into a...
Arts & Culture

Chronovisor, dark academia meets found footage horror

By
Boris Tsun Hang Leung
I have always regarded lost media and conspiracy theories as frivolous entertainment that I put on when I need some thrill in my otherwise mundane life. However, Chronovisor, with its blend of found footage,...
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UMSocialists hosted a campus cleanup on Oct. 17, bringing...

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Beyond narratives of loss

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Mansura Akter Meghla
For Sharon Angnakak, understanding Inuit history requires more than revisiting what has already been written in the archives. It demands asking whose interpretation of that history has been preserved and whose knowledge may have...
Emma Gillich
Research & Technology

Finding your way around campus

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Mansura Akter Meghla
Finding a classroom can be one of the first challenges a student faces in their early days around a new university campus. For fourth-year mechanical engineering student Quadric Francisco, his own experience getting around...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
Research & Technology

Reading between the rules

By
Mansura Akter Meghla
What happens when states say they support international law but resist efforts to enforce it? For Bryan Peeler, the way states argue about international law can reveal how the international system itself is changing. Peeler, a...
Emma Gillich
Research & Technology

When the kids leave home

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Mansura Akter Meghla
For students, leaving home for college or university can mean independence, new routines and a major change in everyday life. But on the other side of that move are parents and caregivers adjusting to...
Emma Gillich

Sports

Sports

From Bison athlete to commentator

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Daniel Conway, an athlete with the Bisons football team until 2025, has now transitioned into a football commentator for the Bisons football games.  However, football was not Conway’s first passion. A picture of Kobe Bryant...
Daniel Conway
Sports

Grinding through the injuries

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Coming off the 2-1 loss against the MacEwan Griffins on Sept. 27, where the herd had chances of tying the game but failed to capitalize their opportunities, the Bisons soccer team decided to prove...
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Sports

Why we run

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Winnipeg is shaped by the water that flows through the Red River and the Assiniboine River. Where the rivers influence the city landscape, similarly the climate in Winnipeg influences the outdoor activities for Winnipeggers. Street...
Faiyaz Chowdhury
Sports

The wolves are no threat to the Bisons

By
Faiyaz Chowdhury
The Bisons women’s basketball team played against the Lakehead Thunderwolves on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4. The game on Saturday was their second game of the season and it was nothing short...
Zulkifl Rafah

Comment

Not one more Jane Doe

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The Manitoban horoscope for the week of Sept. 28

I want to kiss the word diva on the mouth

Graduation blues

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Mental health is health care

We are too comfortable with abusers

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Letters

Possible health-care policies

After reading through multiple articles on various topics related...

Health-care policy proposals for older adults

We are second-year nursing students at the U of...

Re: Re: Words from Arij Al Khafagi’s appeal hearing

Dear Editor, I am responding to R. Spivak’s letter of...

Re: Journeying into school psychology

I was sincerely engaged by the article “Journeying into...

Re: UMSU continues anti-Palestinian racism definition talks

To the editor, I was sad to see, in the...