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UMSU council to lobby for optional summer U-Pass

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Qudus Abusaleh
UMSU council unanimously passed a motion encouraging the union’s executive to lobby the City of Winnipeg to introduce an optional universal transit pass (U-Pass) for the summer term at its regular meeting Jan. 4. UMSU...
Quincy Houdayer
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Winnipeggers mark Idle No More five year anniversary

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Imreet Kaur
More than 50 people gathered at Portage and Main to observe the fifth anniversary of the Idle No More (INM) movement on Dec. 23. INM started as a protest against Bill C-45 proposed by the...
Imreet Kaur
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Young and Arab in the age of revolutions

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Shaden Abusaleh
Beyond Crisis: The Middle East Past, Present, Future event series hosted University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole Dec. 11 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for a keynote address on youth involvement...
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UCRU recommends eliminating tuition tax credits

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Qudus Abusaleh
A report prepared by Undergraduates of Canadian Research-Intensive Universities (UCRU) recommends that the federal government scrap the federal tuition tax credits moving into 2018. The UCRU is a collective of undergraduate student unions representing students of...
Megan Colwell
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U of M Fort Garry bus station construction nears completion

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Diana-Abasi Ubokudom
Transit service on the Fort Garry campus of U of M has returned to normal since temporary stops were installed along Maclean Crescent after construction of new stops started in summer of last year. The...
Quincy Houdayer
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Provincial climate change plan broken down at town hall meeting

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Diana-Abasi Ubokudom
Manitoba Eco-Network, alongside organizations such as Climate Change Connection, Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, and Wilderness Committee, gathered for a town hall to discuss the province's five-year Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan at the University...
Jen Doerksen
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Treaty interpretations: beyond state-based mechanisms of rights

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Qudus Abusaleh
University of Manitoba’s department of Native Studies hosted university lecturer Gina Starblanket on Nov. 29 as part of their weekly colloquium series, “Revisions and revitalizations: Native studies in the future.” Starblanket, a member of the...
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