Faculty of Arts News Archive

March 5, 2025 — 
University of Manitoba History Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Len Kuffert, talks to CTV Morning Live about tariffs and how this trade war is not the first time the United States has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

February 21, 2025 — 
Unlike English and French, instruction in Cree or Inuktitut isn’t enshrined. Scholar Lorena Sekwan Fontaine on how to fix that.

February 21, 2025 — 
After decades of saying no, is Ottawa ready to say yes?

February 20, 2025 — 
Which Manitoba sector will tariffs hit the hardest?

February 15, 2025 — 
Red, white, and patriotic all over.