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Winnipeg Free Press: U of M announces Chiu Centre for Business Serving Community

November 6, 2025 — 
The Chiu Centre for Business Serving Community at the I.H. Asper School of Business will “foster cultural change in capitalism through research, training and promoting business models that address social and ecological crises facing humanity,” the Winnipeg-based university announced in a news release. 

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Dr. Lori Wilkinson

Faculty of Arts News

CBC: American businesses feel pinch as Canadian travel dries up

November 6, 2025 — 
Dr. Lori Wilkinson, the Canada Research Chair in migration futures and professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba, said there are several factors leading to fewer Canadians travelling to the U.S., including the messages coming from President Donald Trump and his administration. 

An aerial look of Fort Garry campus buildings and people walking on walkways.

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Behind the safety alerts

November 6, 2025 — 
From loudspeakers across campus to instant alerts on your phone, UM’s mass notification system is designed to get critical information out fast.

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Fletcher Baragar, an economics professor at the University of Manitoba, says Canada should join forces with other nations facing Trump tariff threats — like Mexico, China and potentially the European Union — in order to strengthen economic ties over the next four years. (Karen Pauls/CBC)

Faculty of Arts News

CBC: Federal Budget 2025 Economic Analysis

November 5, 2025 — 
Dr. Fletcher Baragar, Associate Head - Economics & Society speaks with guest host Laurie Hoogstraten about the new Federal Budget, its projected deficit, proposed spending, and what it means for Canadians and Manitoba in areas like jobs, housing, and economic growth.

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Winnipeg Free Press: Pulling focus Through, and through a green, green lens

November 5, 2025 — 
I have more of a familiarity or comfort with being outside, just lying down on the ground. I always had a desire to put my hands in the dirt or just lie down in the grass,” says Ciurysek, an associate professor in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Harmeet Chawla

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News

Manitoba Co-operator: Gene editing’s growing sway in plant breeding

November 5, 2025 — 
In Canada and the U.S., gene-edited plants are reviewed as a final product with an eye towards minimizing harm. Europe, meanwhile focuses more on the technology by which they were bred. Dr. Harmeet Chawla, professor with the University of Manitoba’s department of plant science, dug a little deeper.

Nicole Rosen.

Faculty of Arts News

CBC: What is ‘6-7’?

November 5, 2025 — 
Last week, Dictionary.com named the Word of the Year for 2025. It is, to no surprise for middle-schoolers, ‘6-7’. For those of us who are not 13, Dr. Nicole Rosen, head of linguistics at the University of Manitoba, breaks it down

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Faculty of Arts News

CTV News: Reaction to the federal budget

November 5, 2025 — 
Dr. Christopher Adams, Adjunct professor of political science, discusses his thoughts on the announcement

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Portrait of Adam King, Labour Studies

Faculty of Arts News

CBC: Civil service employees in Manitoba brace for federal budget amid fears of workforce cuts

November 4, 2025 — 
Dr. Adam King, assistant professor of labour studies at the University of Manitoba, said what the Carney government has signalled thus far does not hint at public austerity measures in the traditional sense of cuts across the board

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Pumpkins

Faculty of Arts News

CBC: Fall Queries with Chloe: Pumpkin Spice

November 4, 2025 — 
Why do we only have pumpkin spice flavoured things in the fall? CBC's Chloe Friesen went looking for answers with Dr. Sonia Bookman, Associate Professor and Department Head, Sociology and Criminology.

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