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The federal government announced new investments for research-intensive universities in its 2018 budget, released Feb. 27 Minister of Finance Bill Morneau's third budget included federal commitments to student-led research at post-secondary institutions. Over the next five...

UMSU  has committed to fund up to 25 new scholarships for Indigenous students. The UMSU Award for Indigenous Community Leaders, which will be spread out over 12 years beginning this academic year, will be...

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) organized several mini-talks covering a range of topics every Saturday through February to mark Black History Month. The talks mainly focused on three areas: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,...

A recent study by a University of Manitoba undergraduate student suggests that Lake Winnipeg, and the fish that inhabit it, contain high levels of microplastics. Microplastics are tiny (approximately five millimetres in diameter) bits of...

Darla Contois and a small group of protesters  began  camping on the Manitoba legislature grounds Feb. 22 after Raymond Cormier was acquitted of second degree murder charges relation to the death of Tina Fontaine. Contois...

Hundreds gathered at the Odeena Celebration Circle at the Forks Saturday afternoon to rally in support of the family of Colten Boushie. Boushie, a 22-year-old man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot and killed...

A motion to hold a referendum on defunding the Manitoban briefly appeared in the package sent to UMSU councillors in preparation for council’s Feb. 1 meeting, before being withdrawn little more than a day...