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Thank you for voting

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Leif Larsen
As you may or may not have heard, the Manitoban won its recent referendum, in which we asked students to increase our levy from $3 to $4 per student per term. To the 1,982 students...
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Inner-city rep & racialized student rep coming soon to UMSU council

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Chuthan Ponnampalam
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union is in the process of creating two new student representative positions, one of which will sit on UMSU council as soon as next month. The positions of a racialized...
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Faculty salaries in Manitoba fall below average

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Talia Joundi
In comparison to other Canadian universities, professors at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg have salaries that are below average, making them among the poorest paid professors in Western Canada. Statistics...
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UMSU election voter turnout beats 2010 levels

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Sarah Petz
While voter turnout in the UMSU election has been historically low, one student felt compelled to get her peers out to the polls. Enlisted by no one but herself, Liz Wallis, a third-year English...
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And here are your 2011 UMSU Community Representatives . ....

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Chuthan Ponnampalam
Along with the five incoming UMSU executives elected, voters also acclaimed four student representatives for the roles of students living with disabilities representative, women’s representative, international students’ representative and LGBTT* students’ representative. Student...
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Working Together wins 2011 UMSU election

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Chuthan Ponnampalam
On March 11, after the last polling station on campus closed, the last ballot was counted and the results tallied, a new UMSU slate was chosen to represent students: Working Together. The slate won the...
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Working Together Win 2011 UMSU Election

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Chuthan Ponnampalam
On Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. campaigning for the 2011 University of Manitoba’s Students’ Union kicked-off, and on March 11 at 6 p.m. the last polling station on campus closed, about eight hours later...

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