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Historic agreement reached to protect Manitoba watershed
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between four Indigenous nations, the Manitoba government and the Government of Canada to protect the Seal River Watershed.
The Seal River Watershed is comprised of 50,000 square kilometres of...
UMSU to adopt ranked ballots in general elections
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The UMSU board of directors voted at its Jan. 11 board meeting to move toward the implementation of a ranked ballot voting system for general elections.
Motion 0588, which proposed adopting a ranked ballot voting...
Damilola Ojo named UMSU Black students’ rep
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Becoming the new Black students’ representative on the UMSU board of directors feels like a “full circle moment” for Damilola Ojo.
Ojo was elected as Black students’ representative for the remainder of the term during...
Kinew revokes Eckhardt’s honours, WAG drops name
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Premier Wab Kinew posthumously revoked one of the province’s highest honours from Ferdinand Eckhardt earlier this month. Eckhardt was an art historian and philanthropist who was recently uncovered to have been a Nazi sympathizer.
Eckhardt...
Barbershop opens on U of M campus
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Two years after the opening of its first location in 2019, Swish Barbershop was voted the number one barbershop in Winnipeg by CommunityVotes Winnipeg. Since then, the shop has opened two additional locations to...
Three friends of U of M appointed to Order of Canada
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Members of the University of Manitoba community Richard Kroeker, Gen. Raymond Henault and Victor Hetmanczuk were appointed to the Order of Canada for their achievements and contributions to the country on Dec. 28.
Kroeker said...
How a U of M prof unwittingly became one face of...
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In May of 2022, a man walked into frame on the set of Netflix’s documentary Bitconned. “Hello, I’m Michael Edwards, founder and CEO of Centra Tech,” he said, sitting down behind a wooden desk...
