Faculty of Arts News Archive
The Conversation: Rethinking masculinity: Teaching men how to love and be loved
February 9, 2024 —
How will young men learn to love when many messages seem to be either focused on what is wrong with them — or how they can dominate?
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CBC Manitoba: Caspian on the hook for $21.5M after city drops claims against other defendants in Winnipeg police HQ case
February 8, 2024 —
Caspian on the hook for $21.5M after city drops claims against other defendants in Winnipeg police HQ case
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Fair treatment for an overlooked group of refugees
February 8, 2024 —
Nabil Iqbal is a Master of Human Rights student and a 2023-24 recipient of a Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE) Graduate Fellowship. He is keenly interested in finding ways to help improve the rights of an often overlooked refugee group – those who are forced to move across borders because of the threats to their homeland from climate change.
The Conversation: Black men’s mental health concerns are going unnoticed and unaddressed
February 8, 2024 —
Protesters in Winnipeg recently took to the streets to demand accountability after police shot and killed a 19-year-old Black university student on New Year’s Eve. Afolabi Opaso was an undergraduate student from Nigeria studying economics at the University of Manitoba.
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CityNews Winnipeg: Family claims slow ambulance response time contributed to Winnipeg restaurant owner’s death
February 7, 2024 —
Family claims slow ambulance response time contributed to Winnipeg restaurant owner’s death
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CBC Manitoba: Familial DNA searches come with risks, rewards in solving MMIWG cold cases
February 5, 2024 —
Familial DNA searches come with risks, rewards in solving MMIWG cold cases
Light Uchechukwu is inspired and inspiring
February 1, 2024 —
The Bisons volleyball captain leads by example
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Winnipeg Free Press: Manitoba drivers still get break as gas price fluctuates
February 1, 2024 —
Manitoba drivers still get break as gas price fluctuates
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Disability is part of all of our experience
January 29, 2024 —
On January 19th, students, faculty, family and friends gathered to celebrate the launch of What Our Bodies Know: Essays at the Intersection of Feminism & Disability. The book is an anthology of 28 creative nonfiction pieces written by students from the course WOMN 2540: Feminisms and Disability in Contemporary Literature from the women’s and gender studies program (WGS) in the Faculty of Arts.
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‘It’s not just a moment’
January 25, 2024 —
Warren Clarke tells a story about a moment in early childhood when he excitedly expressed that he wanted to become a bus driver. His dad, who’d come to visit, got visibly upset. As much as he didn’t understand at the time, he says he’s thought through this moment in light of his current position as a professor, and with the knowledge he now has.