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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...

Peter Nygård pursues immortality through stem cell research Winnipeg-raised fashion magnate Peter Nygård has claimed that he is growing younger through the use of stem cell injections – an area of research he claims is...

University of Manitoba student Sinan Leylek has been named a provincial champion of Enactus Canada’s Student Entrepreneur National Competition, which is currently in its 18th year. Leylek is the owner and founder of Party...