Aboriginal Students Gathering at Migizii Agamik
The 2014 Aboriginal Students Gathering was held at the University of Manitoba’s Migizii Agamik building earlier this month. On Feb. 14 and 15, students discussed…
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UMSU general election candidates announced
Last Friday saw the first all-candidates meeting for the 2014 UMSU general elections. Slates and community representatives were officially announced at the meeting, held in…
Katz got your tongue?
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz is suing the parent company of the Uniter, the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg, over an article that…
Nominations open for UMSU elections
The nominations process for University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) elections is underway, but chief returning officer (CRO) Jacqueline Keena is remaining quiet about which…
Celebration Week held at Fort Garry campus
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) helped to ease the late-January monotony last week with guest speakers, events at the Hub, and free breakfasts….
Local news briefs
University of Manitoba senate meeting The U of M senate will meet for the second time in 2014 on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Scheduled for that…
Ethical consumption is futile
Two common articulations of ethical consumption in our milieu are meat-free living and reliance on fair-trade, organic products. The person who decides to take up…
How to feed the world
The first Visionary Conversations talk of 2014 was held at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus last week. This time, an interdisciplinary panel of…
Ally training offered at the U of M
Last week, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), the UMSU Womyn’s Centre, and the Rainbow Pride Mosaic (RPM) jointly organized and held part one…
National news briefs
Military issues memo on whistleblowers Lt.-Gen. Marquis Haines of the Canadian army distributed a memo to service members recently announcing his commitment to disciplining service…