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Developing story: Winnipeg mayoral candidates on ranked ballots

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Craig Adolphe
Robert-Falcon Ouellette, David Sanders, Judy Wasylycia-Leis, and Brian Bowman voiced their opinions on ranked ballots as an alternative to first-past-the-post for future Winnipeg elections. The Manitoban contacted all of the mayoral candidates for their position...
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CFS-MB releases, retracts city mayoral candidate report card

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Craig Adolphe
The Canadian Federation of Students-Manitoba (CFS-MB) released a report last week assigning grades to all of the mayoral candidates still in the running for Winnipeg’s municipal elections, and then proceeded to retract it later...
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Garbage pickers sweep up data from trashed Red River

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Philma Scheepers
The first-ever Red River shoreline cleanup took place on Friday, Sept. 26 along the shoreline of the University of Manitoba campus. Nine volunteers contributed to the project, spending nearly two hours walking along the...
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Pro-democracy protesters demand fair elections for Hong Kong

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Dana Hatherly
The government in Hong Kong declared that Monday, Oct. 6 was the deadline for pro-democracy demonstrations since university students recently boycotted their classes and students, professors, and citizens alike occupied the highways and streets...
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Ouellette weighs in on ranked ballot system

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Craig Adolphe
Robert-Falcon Ouellette has come out in support of ranked ballots as an alternative to first-past-the-post for future Winnipeg elections. Mayoral candidates on rapid transit, value of post-secondary education Municipal election draws big names for open St....
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UMSU launches ‘UM for U’ campaigns

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Dana Hatherly
This past Thursday morning at Degrees Restaurant marked the launch of new campaigns aimed at addressing topics that UMSU identified as students’ top concerns on the University of Manitoba campus. The campaign will be branded...
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This ain’t your grandma’s watering hole

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Chelsea LobsonDana Moore
Nestled at the back of campus on a finger of land surrounded by the Red River lies one of the University of Manitoba’s unique gems: the Prairie Wetland Research Facility (PWRF). Hidden in plain...