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Words from Arij Al Khafagi’s appeal hearing
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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...
Vigil held to honour international student killed by police
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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...
Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
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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...
The increasing need for mental health support
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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....
The Manitoban enters 110th year
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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...
‘No one really understands unless you’ve lived through it’
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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....
‘We have a right to be here’: To achieve in academia,...
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“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...







