Bison athlete profile: Wilfred Samking, sprinter
In his third year at the University of Manitoba, Wilfred Samking has proven himself as one of the fastest sprinters in the CIS, and the…
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Facebook photo draws criticism of newly elected UMSU president
A photo of recently elected University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) president Al Turnbull has been circulating on Facebook drawing some criticism of the Fresh…
Winners of Three Minute Thesis determined in final round
The University of Manitoba showcased some of its talented students throughout the first Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Graduate students shared their three-minute presentations on…
Idle No More symposium held at the U of M
A symposium hosted by the University of Manitoba Native Studies Graduate Students’ Association took place on Friday, Mar. 8 and included a variety of discussions…
Violence against women high in Manitoba
Statistics Canada released a report on Feb. 25 detailing rates of violence against women in Canada, which showed that Manitoba has more than double the…
National news briefs
Experimental Lakes Area’s federal funding, control to run dry Federal funding of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), an unoccupied and protected area of land in…
Resistance is fertile
Both women and men marched down Broadway Avenue on Friday, Mar. 8 for International Women’s Day. Participants chanted phrases such as, “two, four, six, eight,…
Preliminary UMSU general election results
Preliminary vote counts released by the chief returning officer (CRO) supervising the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) general elections indicate that the UMSU Fresh…
Crowdsourced gunsmithing: 3D-printed guns raise unsettling questions
“Information wants to be free.” This is the motto of the Internet. At this moment I can go to one of several shady websites and…
Living with wildlife: Biologist Ryan Brook discusses human perspectives on wildlife conflict
As wild areas shrink and human populations expand, there is more contact between humans and wildlife, and inevitably more conflict. Consider Bambi, the pet deer…