By Amira Tekle UMSU vice-president finance and operations Mbuli Matshe is spearheading an ongoing initiative to incorporate participatory budgeting into the students’ union’s finances, holding three days of tabling in UMSU University Centre to ask students “What would you do with $20,000?” The first participatory budgeting exercise was held in the 2018-19 academic year. This…
Universities across Canada are coming together today to honour the victims of a plane crash in Iran that left no survivors a week ago. More than a dozen universities have said they are grieving students, faculty and researchers who were among the 176 people killed when the Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down…
By CBC News A group of students ended a 100-hour hunger strike Friday after the University of British Columbia assured them it will fully divest its $1.7 billion endowment fund of fossil fuel investments. The eight students, all members of climate advocacy group Extinction Rebellion UBC, began the strike on Monday. In December, the university’s board…
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On January 7, a Ukrainian International Airlines flight heading from Tehran, Iran to Kyiv, Ukraine, crashed, tragically killing 176 passengers, 63 of which were Canadians. It is with deep sympathy that we confirm that among those who lost their lives yesterday were University of Manitoba students and alumni. The University of Manitoba Students’ Union is…