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CBC Ontario Today: A decade of Orange Shirt Day: What difference does it make?

October 3, 2023 — 
A decade of Orange Shirt Day: What difference does it make?

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a woman with long brown hair wearing a cream sweater, filling out her voting ballot.

September 30 to October 3rd, UM experts lend insights on #Mbpoli

October 3, 2023 — 
A look at the final days of the 2023 provincial election

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The SVRC's office welcome space is full of comfy chairs and colourful pillows, helpful pamphlets. A selection of teas are lined up beside a kettle. There is red rope art displayed on the wall. It is comfortable and inviting.

Workshop registration now open: Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence

October 3, 2023 — 
Initially offered in 2017, Responding to Disclosures continues to be a valuable workshop designed to help faculty and staff members prepare for a situation in which someone discloses an experience of sexual violence to them.

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Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Bringing experiential learning into your classroom in Fall 2023

October 3, 2023 — 
Experiential learning (EL) is a high-impact pedagogy that prepares students to thrive in today’s complex world. All instructors at UM are encouraged to bring experiential learning into their courses. We chatted with Gera Villagran from UM’s Office of Experiential Learning about ways in which instructors can build experiential learning opportunities into their courses.

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Healing trauma with truth

October 3, 2023 — 
In a recent visit to Winnipeg, acclaimed trauma and addictions expert Dr. Gabor Maté spoke out in support of a permanent UM home for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and why it will be so important to supporting Survivors and moving through trauma.

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Dr. Peter Nickerson, dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, speaks at a podium in front of balloons at the Bannatyne campus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Alumni travel through time at Rady Homecoming events

September 29, 2023 — 
Alumni from the past six decades and from each of the Rady colleges descended on Brodie Centre atrium to celebrate the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Dean’s Homecoming Breakfast on Sept. 23 and reconnect with one another and their alma mater.

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A pile of painted rocks stacked just inside the tall gates that separate the grounds of the former Qu'Appelle Industrial School and a railway line in the fall of 2021. The former school site sits on the western-most edge of the townsite. (Bryan Eneas/CBC)

CBC Indigenous: Letitia John died at a residential school. Her identity was lost until now

September 29, 2023 — 
We know her name wasn’t 'Indian Girl 237,' but who is her family?

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Information Services and Technology

Step up your cyber fitness this Cyber Month!

September 29, 2023 — 
This Cyber Security Awareness Month (Cyber Month), let’s help our campus community, families, and friends step up their cyber fitness. As a proud Get Cyber Safe champion, we recognize Cyber Month as an important time to reflect, as individuals and as an organization, on how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones online.

Photo of robot finger touching human finger.

Extended Education

Lifelong Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

September 29, 2023 — 
“Who is the owner of data? If you generate it, it should belong to you.” - Kelly Shiohira

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NCTR: The importance of decolonizing data now

September 29, 2023 — 
VIDEO: The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) is working to restructure and decolonize its archives. Learn more about the meaningful ways Indigenous perspectives and data is breaking ground in cultural heritage policy and Indigenous research.

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