UM in the News News Archive
Global: Manitoba resident granted right to die by doctor assisted death
March 16, 2016 —
"If you’re a competent adult and you’re suffering intolerably you have the right to ask a physician and the physician has the right to give you assistant in hasting your death.”
Sun, Free Press: Manitoba Bisons DL David Onyemata’s NFL Draft stock rises after pro day in Winnipeg
March 15, 2016 —
Several NFL teams sent scouts to the University of Manitoba to watch defensive lineman David Onyemata go through the paces at his Monday pro day.
Op-Ed: The dying are too ill to speak, and the dead will never complain. We must speak for them.
March 11, 2016 —
Harvey Max Chochinov, Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care, writes about the advent of physician-hastened death. We must get our approach to human suffering and palliative care right, he says.
Vice: Why Are There Still Male-Only Scholarships?
March 10, 2016 —
'The University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta have been more proactive in reexamining their scholarships, creating policy that ensures new scholarships adhere to their respective human rights codes.'
Telegraph/Free Press: People labelled fat based on BMI scores could actually be healthy
March 8, 2016 —
“It’s an oversimplification of a more complex story.”
Wpg Free Press: Advances in home dialysis offer more freedom to those with kidney failure
March 7, 2016 —
Story on kidney disease
CBC: Design competition gives Winnipeg bees homes
March 4, 2016 —
These are for bees that are already found within the city
CBC: Sam Katz ‘friends’ with police HQ contractor, say court documents
March 2, 2016 —
Paul Thomas, professor emeritus, said Sam Katz should be entitled to privacy and the benefit of the doubt but he acknowledges the public is less tolerant than it used to be.
Globe and Mail: Advertisers (finally) depicting a broader view of masculinity
February 26, 2016 —
'Hyper-masculinity, we believe, is a substitute for real social, economic and political power'
Wpg Free Press: Who benefits from public investment in True North Square?
February 24, 2016 —
What does it mean to have a public square on private property? And who benefits from public investment in this project?