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UMSU audit shows $690,000 operating fund deficit in 2015-16
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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) ran a $690,000 deficit in its operating fund last year, according to its official audit presented at council’s regular meeting Oct. 27.
The audit stated that the total...
UMSU council chooses to leave VPSS position vacant
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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) council voted unanimously to leave the vice-president student services (VPSS) position vacant for the remainder of the year at its regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 27.
Former VPSS...
UMSU LGBTTQ*, Aboriginal representative positions filled
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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) finally has a full slate of community representatives after filling its LGBTTQ* and Aboriginal students’ rep positions at its last regular council meeting Oct. 27.
The Aboriginal representative...
U of M’s office of sustainability set to begin waste audit...
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The University of Manitoba’s office of sustainability is preparing to conduct a broad-scaled waste audit and organic waste processing feasibility study after receiving a $40,000 provincial grant this summer.
The project funding was granted through...
Canadian scientist leading research on synthetic compounds to treat Alzheimer’s disease
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Is the answer to the Alzheimer’s disease epidemic computer-modelled molecules? Donald Weaver, senior scientist and director at the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto, believes it very well may be.
The University of Manitoba’s faculty of science...
Picketing begins after UMFA, university mediations break down
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“We just saw no flexibility whatsoever, despite the fact that we walked in to that mediation saying that we would agree for the moment to set aside the salary question" - Mark Hudson, UMFA...
Province directing U of M to freeze faculty salaries: U of...
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“The province has unnecessarily endangered a complex negotiation through this misguided interference" - Mark Hudson, UMFA president







