UM in the News News Archive

October 18, 2025 — 
The CJOB segment features Brandon Trask, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, who reflects on how his parents’ example shaped his values and career path.

October 18, 2025 — 
Carolyn Basha, a behind-the-scenes superstar of the Manitoba arts world, will be celebrated by her family and friends at a memorial concert on Friday at the Desautels Concert Hall — a University of Manitoba venue Basha helped will into existence.

October 17, 2025 — 
Dr. Orly Linovski, an associate professor in the University of Manitoba's city planning department, penned the Thursday letter, which was endorsed by 16 groups, including the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the U of M's city planning department, the Manitoba Eco-Network, the North End Women's Centre and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.

October 17, 2025 — 
Dr. Barry Prentice, Professor and Director of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute (UMTI), Supply Chain Management Department, said such a pipeline would be difficult to build in northern Manitoba, where melting permafrost can lead to engineering challenges, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

October 17, 2025 — 
Dr. Fletcher Baragar with the University of Manitoba’s Department of Economics says the services are designed to be user-friendly. “Make it easy, make it convenient, minimal questions asked,” he said.

October 16, 2025 — 
Dr. Jitender Sareen, professor and head, department of psychiatry in the Max Rady College of Medicine, one of four signatories to the letter in support of the change, said the group took that step "because of the important problem that we have in Manitoba of crystal meth intoxication-related mental health difficulties."

October 16, 2025 — 
Brandon Trask, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba said the reverse onus proposal for bail could lead to potential violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

October 16, 2025 — 
The second concert in the newly-minted Desautels Concert Series is set to feature a rare gathering of the entire jazz faculty at the University of Manitoba. To hear trumpet instructor Jonathan Challoner say that the gathering is an inspiring one for the players would be an understatement

October 15, 2025 — 
It was a day of celebration and of recognition Wednesday, as the University of Manitoba Indigenous studies department marked a half-century of scholarship, honouring decades of students and scholars in their pursuit of justice for Indigenous peoples.

October 15, 2025 — 
Winnipeg author and historian Dr. Gerald Friesen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of History has won the 2025 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for his biography The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman