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Student-at-large suspended from UMSU meetings

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Michaela de Hoop
Student-at-large Victoria Romero has been suspended from attending UMSU board of director meetings for the remainder of the 2023-2024 academic year.  During the Jan. 25 UMSU board of directors (BoD) meeting, board members were presented...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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Nursing student reinstated

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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...
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Shortfalls in menstrual equity at U of M, audit reveals

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Kyra Campbell
Volunteers for the Period Poverty and Equity on Campus and Beyond project at U of M’s Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses have found significant room for improvement when it comes to to reaching menstrual...
Matthew Merkel
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Historic agreement reached to protect Manitoba watershed

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Michaela de Hoop
 A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between four Indigenous nations, the Manitoba government and the Government of Canada to protect the Seal River Watershed.  The Seal River Watershed is comprised of 50,000 square kilometres of...
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UMSU to adopt ranked ballots in general elections

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Colton McKillop
The UMSU board of directors voted at its Jan. 11 board meeting to move toward the implementation of a ranked ballot voting system for general elections. Motion 0588, which proposed adopting a ranked ballot voting...
Teegan Gillich
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Damilola Ojo named UMSU Black students’ rep

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Sarah Cohen
Becoming the new Black students’ representative on the UMSU board of directors feels like a “full circle moment” for Damilola Ojo.  Ojo was elected as Black students’ representative for the remainder of the term during...
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Kinew revokes Eckhardt’s honours, WAG drops name

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Kyra Campbell
Premier Wab Kinew posthumously revoked one of the province’s highest honours from Ferdinand Eckhardt earlier this month. Eckhardt was an art historian and philanthropist who was recently uncovered to have been a Nazi sympathizer.  Eckhardt...
Matthew Merkel

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