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Preliminary results from the 2014 UMSU General Election indicate a decisive victory for the Refresh slate. The vote counts were released by chief returning officer Jacqueline Keena on Saturday morning, and show all five UMSU...

Business is flourishing at the University of Manitoba campus restaurants. According to recent financial reports, the monthly profits of Degrees and the Hub are higher now than at any other time in U of M...

Last Wednesday, the native studies’ 2014 winter colloquium featured Christy Anderson,  a master’s student researching the marginalization of Aboriginal women in Canadian society. Her presentation was timely given the recent murder of Loretta Saunders that...

UMSU general election preliminary results are in. From the official website of the chief returning officer: President Al Turnbull – 3375 Charly Wreggit – 1486 Kyra Wilson – 293 Vice-President Advocacy  Rebecca Kunzman – 3579 Monica Igweagu – 1595 Vice-President Internal  Jeremiah Kopp...

Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs—a Fernwood Publishing book released last August—challenges the reader to look at the problem of Aboriginal street gangs in Winnipeg from a different perspective. Two of the...

Food Matters Manitoba (FMM) hosted its seventh annual Growing Local Conference in downtown Winnipeg last weekend. The three-day event saw participation from dozens of organizations involved with food issues –  including local food shares and...

On Feb. 28, Alejandro Baer gave a presentation titled “Globalised Holocaust” at the University of Manitoba. The presentation examined how a cultural memory can be appropriated into a global phenomenon, and how our use and...