Turn up at the Hub
After unsatisfactory financial results prompted the summer closure of the University of Manitoba’s campus bar, the Hub is performing well in the new school year…
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Vacation is not a treatment
I fully support an UMSU campaign on mental health. Public health insurance does not fund most mental health services, particularly preventive ones. The university offers limited student counselling, but it’s not the university’s role to operate as a pseudo-healthcare system. As such, students may be unable to access the care they need when they need it.
Putting poutine in its place
You may have noticed that, for some time, there’s been a food truck parked on campus. A welcome relief from the unrelenting mediocrity of campus food services (though I’ve yet to actually see anyone buying poutine there), the Poutine King is inarguably an asset to life on campus.
The whole point of a food truck, however, is that you can park it anywhere; the specific spot the truck currently occupies is not only inappropriate, it is offensive. The truck should be moved – perhaps more importantly, whoever told it to park there should have known better in the first place.
Early morning fire strikes Fort Garry campus
Firefighters were called to the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus just before 6 a.m. this morning to put out a fire.
Net neutrality and cyber surveillance
Buzz words like “net neutrality” and “cyber surveillance” are often heard and seen in the media, along with various bills referred to by various acronyms….
Student dies in residence
University of Manitoba student residents are mourning the sudden death of a first-year student living in residence at Mary Speechly Hall.
U of M climbs in ranking of Canada’s Top 50 research universities
In the latest rankings of the top 50 research universities in Canada released by RE$EARCH Infosource Inc, the University of Manitoba has improved from last year, moving up three spaces from 16th place to 13th.
College of nursing grapples with palliative care and physician-assisted suicide
On Monday, Oct. 26, an engaged crowd of nursing students, social workers, registered nurses, and community members attended an open forum titled “Emerging Ethical Challenges for Palliative Care,” presented by nursing professor Carol Taylor, the Margaret Elder Hart Distinguished Visitor at the University of Manitoba’s college of nursing.
New scholarship bolsters human rights research
The University of Manitoba has established a new Mahatma Gandhi scholarship for graduate students studying human rights. The scholarship, along with the forthcoming development of a master of human rights program at the university, helps to solidify Winnipeg as one of the leaders of human rights study in the country.
Moving beyond the bottom line
The link between social capital and accounting transparency in public and private banks was uncovered in a recent lecture at the U of M, including its implication for contemporary Canadian society.