Shortfalls in menstrual equity at U of M, audit reveals
Volunteers for the Period Poverty and Equity on Campus and Beyond project at U of M’s Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses have found significant room…
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Tackling compostable plastic recycling challenges
U of M interdisciplinary undergraduate student group Prairie iGEM is aiming to solve recycling practices and problems with polylactic acid (PLA) plastic in Manitoba through…
Kinew revokes Eckhardt’s honours, WAG drops name
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…
Barbershop opens on U of M campus
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…
Three friends of U of M appointed to Order of Canada
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…
Resisting exploitative labour in academia
Early last week, an email was sent out from the office of the vice-president (research and international) announcing the application period for the Undergraduate Research…
October and November campus crime report
Statistics published by U of M security services for the months of October and November are now available on the security services’ website. In a…
We owe Afolabi Stephen Opaso remembrance and action
Right at the year’s close, news that 19-year-old U of M international student Afolabi Stephen Opaso was killed by police on Dec. 31, 2023 shook…
There is solidarity in poverty at university
The experiences I’ve carried with me from a life in and out of various states of poverty were ones I frequently felt alienated by. I…
U of M seeks police investigation into former law dean
The University of Manitoba has requested police open an investigation into former law school dean Jonathan Black-Branch. The decision follows a Law Society of Manitoba…