CBC News: How Manitoba’s public guardian system leaves people feeling trapped, stripped of their rights and helpless

A man with red hair and glasses, wearing a light blue button down shirt and dark blue suit. He is standing in front of a building.

Faculty of Law News

CBC News: How Manitoba’s public guardian system leaves people feeling trapped, stripped of their rights and helpless

June 13, 2024 —
How Manitoba's public guardian system leaves people feeling trapped, stripped of their rights and helpless

Faculty of Law, Provincial court, Public guardian system

2 polar bears walking on snow and near melting water

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News

Reuters: Record low May sea ice rings alarm bells for Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bears

June 13, 2024 —
Record low May sea ice rings alarm bells for Canada's Hudson Bay polar bears

Arctic sea ice, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, climate change, Polar Bear Research, U.N. Paris Agreement

UM researcher Julienne Stroeve looking down at ice to measure thickness in Hudson Bay area.

Scientists predict localized extinction of Hudson Bay polar bears if Paris Climate Agreements are breached

June 13, 2024 —
For the first time, a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, including UM's Julienne Stroeve and Alex Crawford, analyzed sea ice thickness against polar bear and seal survival across all of Hudson Bay; due to faster-than-expected sea ice loss, scientists predict localized polar bear extinction.

centre for earth observation science, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, climate change, polar bears, Tackling climate change

Photo of a grolar or pizzly bear (a hybrid of a polar and grizzly bear) sleeping on a rock

UM researcher helps to track Grolar or Pizzly bears

June 13, 2024 —
A UM researcher is part of team of North American researchers who used a new chip to track the diversity and hybridization between polar bears and grizzly bears. Read more about the research and the new tool they used to find out just how common this kind of hybridization might be around the world.

arctic science, climate change, polar bears