Top stories of 2018

The Bison women's hockey team bring home the gold in the U SPORTS National Championships! PHOTO COURTESY BRANDON VANDECAVEYE, WESTERN UNIVERSITY.

CBC: Ethicist, recovering alcoholic blast Liquor & Lotteries’ sale of cheap booze at downtown store

December 18, 2018 —
'They're making money off people who have serious health problems. They know that.'

Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, Faculty of Arts

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Members of Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, have their story documented by Native Studies professor Peter Kulchyski in his book, A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice. The Begade Shutagot’ine are the continued owners of the land and Kulchyski bears eloquent witness to the Begade Shutagot’ine people’s two-decade struggle for land rights, which have been ignored by federal and territorial authorities.

Top 5 2018 University of Manitoba Press Books

December 17, 2018 —
U of M Press picks some of its favourite titles from 2018, and you have a chance to win one of them

Faculty of Arts, Indigenous, Law, Native Studies, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, UM Press, year-end

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Students

Why should you take part in Community Service-Learning?

December 15, 2018 —
Community Service-Learning (CSL) sat down with students from diverse backgrounds to talk about what they have gained from taking part in CSL programs.

community engagement, community service-learning, Faculty of Arts, Price Faculty of Engineering, Students

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Why politics shouldn’t influence how much we pay judges

December 13, 2018 —
Secure and appropriate compensation for judges is a constitutionally recognized component of judicial independence, which itself is a set of interrelated principles meant to ensure that the rule of law applies fairly to everyone, including governments

faculty, Faculty of Arts, government, Law, political studies, Research and International

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Op-ed: Building a political road between urban and rural Canadians

November 30, 2018 —
If whole swaths of people in a democracy feel ignored and neglected, we should eventually expect a response. That response in the U.S. came in the form of Trump. Could something similar happen in Canada?

Faculty of Arts, political studies

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Faculty of Arts graduate Annette Riziki is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship for 2019

U of M’s 99th Rhodes Scholar ‘beat the odds’ to get an education

November 26, 2018 —
U of M honoured to announce that Faculty of Arts grad Annette Riziki is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship

Alumni, Faculty of Arts, Rhodes Scholar

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Faculty of Arts

Catch a one-of-a-kind staged radio production of Under Milk Wood

November 20, 2018 —
Join the Black Hole Theatre for their unique production of Under Milk Wood, an intriguing play that follows the ordinary, day-to-day life of the people within a small Welsh fishing village.

Black Hole Theatre, campus community, Faculty of Arts, Students

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