Faculty of Arts News Archive

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CBC Manitoba: Mark Carney ‘has what it takes’ to deal with Trump, say Manitoba politicians
March 11, 2025 —
'This battle is about economic war and we need to build our best at the front': Chartrand

Transforming spaces for generations to follow
March 7, 2025 —
Graduate student and Anthropology professor collaborate on art installation

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CBC Manitoba: Chris Adams on Legislature resuming, tariffs
March 5, 2025 —
Christopher Adams, adjunct professor of political studies at the UM speaks to CBC Manitoba about the legislature resuming, public expectations, fiscal challenges and effects of U.S. tariffs.

UM faculty and alumni appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission board
March 3, 2025 —
Seven faculty and alumni have recently been appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (CEC) board, an important arms-length provincial agency under the Environment Act.

Medscape Medical News: Mental health worse after workplace injuries
February 28, 2025 —
Patients with workplace injuries have worse mental health outcomes over time than patients with non-workplace injuries: UM study

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CBC Manitoba: U of M defence, security experts urge Canadians to watch what Trump does, not what he says
February 26, 2025 —
Scholars parse U.S. president's warm overtures to Moscow, cold shoulder to Ottawa

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Indigenous political representatives exist in two, often conflicting, worlds
February 25, 2025 —
Two University of Manitoba political studies researchers have won the John McMenemy Prize for best academic article from the Canadian Journal of Political Science. The article, “Indigenous Political Representation in Canada” analyzes how aboriginal people elected to provincial legislatures and federal Parliament negotiate the driving force behind their political commitment to the challenge of providing aboriginal representation in Canada’s legislative institutions.

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A Continuous Resilience in the Face of International Calamity
February 25, 2025 —
January 29-30, 2025 marked the 40th anniversary of the student-run and organized J.W. Dafoe Political Studies Students’ Conference (PSSC). This year’s theme was the United Nations (UN) at 80 - a topic of great scrutiny in the modern political climate.

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CTV Winnipeg: Understanding relations between Ukraine, U.S. and Russia
February 24, 2025 —
Understanding relations between Ukraine, U.S. and Russia

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The Tyee: Tackling Canada’s Discrimination Against Indigenous Language Education
February 21, 2025 —
Unlike English and French, instruction in Cree or Inuktitut isn’t enshrined. Scholar Lorena Sekwan Fontaine on how to fix that.