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…
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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…
Al Khafagi removed from NSA council
Suspended nursing student Arij Al Khafagi no longer holds her position as senior stick of the Nursing Student Association council. The reason for her leave…
Winter orientation events kick off new semester
Winter orientation kicked off the new semester at University of Manitoba, with events beginning Jan. 5 welcoming new and returning students before classes began on…
Re: Re: U of M Prof’s concerns regarding nursing student suspension
I am writing in response to Haskel Greenfield’s Dec. 18 letter, which was a response to Ben Baader’s Dec. 5 letter in support of suspended…
Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first…
Palestine Teach-In: In our own words
We write as faculty who are part of the Palestine Teach-In Collective. We seek to address bad-faith criticisms and attempts to cancel our event, “Palestine…
U of M prof’s concerns regarding nursing student suspension
Dear Netha Dyck, Michael Benarroch and Eleanor Coopsammy, I am writing as a U of M professor in Jewish studies and Jewish history to protest…
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians,…
Suspended nursing student seeks appeal
University of Manitoba Nursing Students’ Association president Arij Al Khafagi is currently appealing her suspension. Al Khafagi was suspended after university officials deemed social media…