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Community meeting charts way forward on illegal housing

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Garett Williams
If the illegal rooming houses that have been sprouting up in neighbourhoods surrounding the University of Manitoba are to be weeded out, the effort has to come from the community itself. That was the...
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CPA Manitoba streamlines accounting designation

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Garett Williams
A new professional accounting designation and regulatory body that came into effect in September should relieve stress for students looking to enter the accounting field at the University of Manitoba in the years ahead. Previously,...
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University of Manitoba Press launches Decolonizing Employment

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Osho Samuel Adetunji
The call for inclusion of indigenous Canadians in the labour market is the focus of a new book launching this week from the University of Manitoba Press, entitled Decolonizing Employment. The newly published book was...
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The changing world of bullying

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Lauren Siddall
University of Manitoba alumnus Courtney Andrysiak was honoured with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) Master’s Thesis Award for her dissertation on cyber-bullying this summer.
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U of M faculty of human ecology officially shuts down

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Dana Hatherly
After 105 years in existence, the faculty of human ecology at the University of Manitoba has dissolved, bringing to a close the last school of its kind in the country and dispersing its former...
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The discreet charm of the zebra finch

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Malak Abas
Human beings and zebra finches don’t seem likely to have much in common, but new studies show that we agree on at least one front: love is a complicated thing. Most animals appear to choose...
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Notes from the Star Field

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Chantelle Dubois
The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) is a think tank organization for space policy, established by the European Space Agency Council and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency in 2002. ESPI’s purpose is to provide...