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Words from Arij Al Khafagi’s appeal hearing

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Ben Baader
Many of you may have heard that a discipline committee at the faculty of health sciences has overturned the suspension of the fourth-year nursing student Arij Al Khafagi. The discipline committee was staffed by...
Teegan Gillich
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Vigil held to honour international student killed by police

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Gillian Brown
The day Afolabi Stephen Opaso was shot and killed by Winnipeg police, he called Favour Babalola, his friend of eight years, twice. The two had known each other since high school in Nigeria, and had...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi

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Jonah Corne
Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first part of the title borrows a line from the...
Teegan Gillich
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The increasing need for mental health support

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Alicia Rose
Katie Surinx’s stress around midterm season can become physiological. Her third-year criminology coursework seems to have piled up and the stress of achieving good grades while working multiple jobs has become difficult to manage....
Teegan Gillich
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The Manitoban enters 110th year

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Ezra TavesGillian BrownJessie Krahn
As the Manitoban approaches the midway point of its 110th publishing year, we are reminded of the vital role that student journalism plays in a university’s society.  Journalism is essential to a functioning democracy. Good...
Teegan Gillich
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‘No one really understands unless you’ve lived through it’

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Colton McKillop
Last weekend, Hamas — a militant group and political party that governs the Gaza Strip — launched surprise attacks on Israel, bulldozing sections of fence separating them and targeting Israeli towns and military bases....
Matthew Merkel
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‘We have a right to be here’: To achieve in academia,...

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Gillian Brown
“Anishinaabe of Treaty 3, 55,000 square miles, signed in 1873.” Lorraine Seymour knows the details of her home by heart. Sitting on a rock outside the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation building on a...
Teegan Gillich

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