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Dr. Christopher Adams, rector of St. Paul's College. Photo taken December 15, 2021 (University of Manitoba)

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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Dr. Andrea Charron Director of the University of Manitoba's Centre for Defence and Security Studies

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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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Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, associate professor and Head of the Indigenous Studies department

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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.

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