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With a Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) vote to censure the University of Manitoba over disputes in its economics department only a month away, a solution to keep the department from splitting apart...

Inner-city social work students, North End community members, and University of Manitoba administrators met last week to discuss a new academic program that continues to generate excitement—the Master’s of Social Work in Indigenous Knowledge. The...

During the recent federal election campaign and in its aftermath, a youth advocacy group has been exerting increasing influence on federal political parties, particularly the newly elected Liberal majority government. Generation Squeeze came to the...

VANCOUVER – A recent study has found that aboriginal youth are incarcerated at a higher rate than non-aboriginal youth. Kora DeBeck, assistant professor in the school of public policy at Simon Fraser University and research...

VANCOUVER – The lack of substantive answers around former University of British Columbia (UBC) president Arvind Gupta’s resignation has hit UBC’s two freedom of information staff the hardest, raising the question of whether UBC...

The push to see the University of Manitoba divest its holdings in carbon-burning industries was put into a global context on Oct. 8 when renowned environmental and social activist Vandana Shiva bridged the gap...

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy at the University of Manitoba recently released an analysis of the InSight Mentoring Program, a provincial program intended to help prevent the development of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders...