Healthcare’s fiscal cliff gets one-year bridge
Federal funding for mental health, substance use and home and community-based care services in Manitoba has been extended by one year....
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Pave paradise, put up an infill lot
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Dr. Seuss once wrote, “A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.” The Lorax, although a reminder for kids to be more conscious of their environmental footprint, is still...
Winnipeg and the way forward
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Winnipeg has passed 850,000 residents, largely driven by immigration, with projections of 900,000 within a decade and one million within 25 years. Yet immigration is slowing as climate change, global instability and shifting federal...
From UMLearn to Cancún and back
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Imagine having to write weekly discussion posts, research and refine the direction of your honours thesis and keep up with six-credit elective courses. This is the chaotic beauty of being in my final year...
Meet U of M’s Gen Z virtuoso composer
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It is not every day you meet a 22-year-old composer and concert pianist on campus, but Ari Hooker is exactly that.
Now in the last semester of his degree in piano performance at U of...
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Lemonade stands for hope
U of M Undergraduate Leaders in Healthcare and the U of M Dairy Club are hosting a lemonade stand with ice cream to raise funds for CancerCare Manitoba Foundation to support...
Bringing Nigerian heritage close to U of M
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In honour of Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day, the U of M Nigerian Students Association (UMNISA) organized a five-day event featuring activities celebrating Nigerian culture.
The week’s celebration, Naija on Campus, began on Sept. 28 with...
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U of M students to stage Irreconcilable Differences
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U of M students are staging the first Lunchbhagg production of the school year with the comedic play Irreconcilable Differences.
Written by Canadian playwright JL Allen and directed by fifth-year theatre student Nadia Holmes, the play...
Inside the lives of Indonesia’s gig drivers
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The Architecture 2 Gallery (A2G) at the U of M presented Life Behind the Ride on Oct. 8, exhibiting photographs that depict the challenges and risks faced by Indonesia’s delivery and rideshare drivers, but...
Meet U of M’s Gen Z virtuoso composer
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It is not every day you meet a 22-year-old composer and concert pianist on campus, but Ari Hooker is exactly that.
Now in the last semester of his degree in piano performance at U of...
U of M Symphony Orchestra to perform Academic Festival
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The U of M Symphony Orchestra (UMSO) is joining forces with the Winnipeg Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) for Academic Festival, UMSO’s first concert of the 2026-27 season.
On the evening of Oct. 9, the audience...
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Beyond narratives of loss
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For Sharon Angnakak, understanding Inuit history requires more than revisiting what has already been written in the archives. It demands asking whose interpretation of that history has been preserved and whose knowledge may have...
Finding your way around campus
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Finding a classroom can be one of the first challenges a student faces in their early days around a new university campus. For fourth-year mechanical engineering student Quadric Francisco, his own experience getting around...
Reading between the rules
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What happens when states say they support international law but resist efforts to enforce it?
For Bryan Peeler, the way states argue about international law can reveal how the international system itself is changing.
Peeler, a...
When the kids leave home
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For students, leaving home for college or university can mean independence, new routines and a major change in everyday life. But on the other side of that move are parents and caregivers adjusting to...
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When you choose not to vote, you are complicit in the problems in your neighbourhoods, schools, laws and your city. Let me be the one to tell you that voting matters....
The beauty of a half-formed notion
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Have you ever read something that hit you so hard that you had to stop for a minute before reading it again? And then again? Then you had to sit there, pondering “how on...
The Manitoban horoscope for the week of Oct. 12
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Aquarius
January 20 – February 18
Aquarius, well, well, well, we meet again, back with me telling you to appreciate the things that others do for you a little more. Sometimes you forget, and that’s okay,...
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Sports
From exclusive to a sport for everyone
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A quick online search may tell one that tennis is a sport for the upper class. With its deep historical roots in European aristocracy, it is not hard to see why the sport became a...
Bisons split weekend series against the Huskies
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The Bisons men’s hockey team played against the Saskatchewan Huskies on Oct. 16 and 17. The first game resulted in a 0-4 loss for the herd. However, they were able to win the second...
From Bison athlete to commentator
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Daniel Conway, an athlete with the Bisons football team until 2025, has now transitioned into a football commentator for the Bisons football games.
However, football was not Conway’s first passion. A picture of Kobe Bryant...
Grinding through the injuries
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Coming off the 2-1 loss against the MacEwan Griffins on Sept. 27, where the herd had chances of tying the game but failed to capitalize their opportunities, the Bisons soccer team decided to prove...
