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Edgar French speaks at a podium on Bannatyne campus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New Multi-faith Centre on Bannatyne campus welcomes people of all backgrounds

December 9, 2025 — 
A new space has opened on the Bannatyne campus for members of the Rady Faculty community to practise their faith, explore their spirituality, or simply pause and reflect.  

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purple crocus flowers emerge from the brown ground. They have not quite opened. There are patches of snow in the background.

Students

Start of something new a universal source of hope

March 7, 2024 — 
As this month brings seasonal changes, we close the chapter on winter and embrace the excitement of spring. UM's Spiritual Care and Multi-Faith Centre is highlighting a number of important religious and spiritual holidays in March, in the spirit of new life and renewal!

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Students

New group on healing racialized trauma available to BIBOC students

September 22, 2023 — 
Racialized trauma is the emotional and physical effects of racism, discrimination and race-based traumatic stress and distress against people of colour. This group will run every Tuesday (1:00 – 2:15 PM) from October 17 to November 17, 2023

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Photo by Colin Corneau showing a person sitting in quiet contemplation with a book in their lap. They sit beside a window covered with a translucent white curtain.

Students

A new space to connect, reflect and belong

October 17, 2022 — 
UM’s Spiritual Care office has moved to a new location of 521A/B UMSU University Centre and they are officially welcoming the UM community to the new Multi-Faith Centre with a week-long open house.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Muslim prayer room opens on Bannatyne campus

March 30, 2022 — 
Muslim students in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences now have a dedicated space for prayer on the Bannatyne campus. The new Muslim prayer room is in Room 121 in the Chown Building. The space gives Muslims, who traditionally engage in prayer five times per day, an easily accessible private room.

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Riding the Waves: Reflecting on Two Years of Pandemic Living

March 17, 2022 — 
Campus community invited to come together on March 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Woman walking

The way of wellness – one step at a time

July 21, 2021 — 
'As options for wellness have lessened, it would appear many have returned to the basics and essentials.  I am referring to the practice of walking, an unassuming human activity that has shaped our species to the very core.' 

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Campus in winter

Students

Spiritual wellness for students

February 16, 2021 — 
Spiritual wellness is essential to the process of navigating one’s life experiences, especially throughout the course of postsecondary education and other life stages it affects. At the University of Manitoba, Spiritual Care supports students as they continue to develop their own framework of beliefs, and discover purpose and meaning in their lives and identities.

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Two people talking behind a window.

Students

Wisdom Wednesdays creating important dialogue and social connection

October 20, 2020 — 
Edgar French, Spiritual Care coordinator at the University of Manitoba, muses about how dialogue can move us forward in a polarized world and introduces Wisdom Wednesdays, a speakers’ series covering pertinent issues facing the world today.

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Fish in fishtank

Students

Life in Pandemic – Living in liminal spaces

June 4, 2020 — 
Most of life’s changes occur over long periods that we hardly notice them (like my waist enhancement). At other times, however, we are brutally thrust into change without any warning.

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