News
Buzz about bees
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Honeybees have been getting a lot of buzz recently due to their high mortality rates across the country, as well as in the United States and Europe.
Beyond products such as honey and beeswax, honeybees...
Breaking the silence on postpartum depression
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On Wednesday, Sept. 18, health-care professionals and concerned family members gathered at McNally Robinson to discuss postpartum depression. “Postpartum Depression and Psychosis: Understanding Early Warning Signs and How Family and Friends can be Supportive”...
Chris Hedges speaks
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Writer, journalist, activist, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize-winner are some of the titles that can be appropriately affixed to the name Chris Hedges. The Vermont native and well-known public intellectual was in Winnipeg last Saturday,...
“Save our science”
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During the lunch hour of Sep. 16, science supporters across Manitoba gathered outside of the University of Winnipeg for the Stand Up For Science rally. Seventeen such events were held across the country that...
Twelfth Harvest Moon Festival held in Clearwater, Manitoba
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This past weekend the town of Clearwater, Manitoba welcomed visitors to its annual Harvest Moon Festival. Harvest Moon brings together musicians, artisans, food producers—and now over 1,200 patrons—from across the region for three days...
Is there a right to sex?’
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Beginning in 2010, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) has held a series of Critical Conversations seminars, each of which examines a contemporary human rights issue. This year’s focus: sexual...
Bison briefs
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Golf
The U of M golf team is off to a flying start, winning back-to-back team titles through their first two tournaments of the 2013 fall season.
On August 30-31, the team participated in the 2013...



