Faculty of Arts News Archive
CTV: Made in Manitoba book examines Canada 150 from an Indigenous perspective
June 28, 2017 —
“It’s filling in some gaps, I think, in knowledge of what Canada’s true history is and that it didn’t simply start in 1867”
CBC/CTV: Critics decry St. Boniface Hospital for banning medical-assisted deaths
June 20, 2017 —
Arthur Schafer weighs in
Op-ed: Public servants deserve our support
June 16, 2017 —
Public servants are an integral aspect of governing and delivering many public goods.
Op-ed: Party loyalty shouldn’t stifle constructive debate in Manitoba Legislature
June 5, 2017 —
Conceiving parliamentary democracy as simply a game in which there are winners and losers trivializes the processes of representation and deliberation to which all our 57 elected MLAs are meant to contribute.
Wpg Free Press: Tories accused of playing games with wage bill
May 23, 2017 —
David Camfield, a professor of labour studies, weighs in
An English professor’s journey through Jamaica: Or, how to keep history alive, mon!
May 19, 2017 —
"We scholars must take every possible opportunity to disseminate our research, since one never knows the avenues through which something great will happen. Who could have guessed that the article on my discovery in UM Today would be seen by a woman in Jamaica?"
CBC: Indigenous writers urge communities to reclaim own voices
May 16, 2017 —
"Apologies are good, but we get apologies all the time as Indigenous people, and nothing really changes," says Niigaan Sinclair
Faculty of Arts
Dark Peril in history
May 12, 2017 —
Barrington Walker recently gave a talk to history programs at Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg
Science in the city
May 11, 2017 —
Festivities kick-off with hands-on science activities for schoolchildren at the U of M on Friday, May 12, with more than 1,000 students registered to attend
HuffPo/CTV: University Of Manitoba Student Delivers 150 Care Packages To Asylum-Seekers
May 11, 2017 —
A University of Manitoba [Faculty of Arts] student inspired by the plight of asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Canada border on foot delivered care packages to the new reception and shelter in Gretna Tuesday