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Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics News Archive

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Vice: Behind the Scenes of the Legal Group That Could Change America’s Definition of Sexual Consent

October 24, 2016 — 
Professor Neil McArthur writes an op-ed for Vice about a group that could change America’s definition of sexual consent.

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A new symbol of access: How a social movement is changing the wheelchair icon

October 19, 2016 — 
Free public lecture on a guerrilla movement to change an icon

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VICE: The First Sex Toy for Trans Men Is Here

September 23, 2016 — 
Philosophy professor explains

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A hand tinted postcard from about 1910 shows a man between two women // Wikimedia

Vice: Why people are fighting to get polyamory recognized as a sexual orientation

August 17, 2016 — 
Polygamists argue that how we think about sexual orientation should consider "relationship orientation”

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The palliative care discussion on April 6, 2016 at McNally Robinson.

How Manitoba can become a centre of excellence in palliative care

April 7, 2016 — 
U of M committed to fundraising $2.5M through its Front and Centre campaign to create a new chair in palliative care medicine

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Arthur Schafer

A titan steps down

February 2, 2016 — 
Arthur Schafer is Canada’s most distinguished authority on bioethics and he is stepping down as director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, which he founded in 1986. The Centre hosts a symposium in his honour on Feb. 5

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Public Forum: The Wicked Problem of Hydraulic Fracturing

January 26, 2016 — 
All are welcome to attend this free public discussion on fracking to be held Friday, Jan. 29.

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Public lecture: The Case of Tibet

December 1, 2015 — 
Lecture: Cultural Security as a Key Value for Ethnic Minorities

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Books / Photo d-221, flickr

Research and International

2016 Ethics Research Fellowship

October 5, 2015 — 
Applications, and all supporting material, must be submitted no later than January 15th, 2016

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Future direction for the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics

October 5, 2015 — 
Public presentation by Neil McArthur

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