October 9, 2020 WINNIPEG, MB – Yesterday the Honourable Janice C. Filmon, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, delivered the Speech from the Throne to open the Third Session of the 42nd Manitoba Legislature. While the speech contains a number of crucial commitments, the Government of Manitoba’s plans in some ways fall short of its stated…
September 28, 2020, Winnipeg, MB – Last night, the President of the University of Manitoba, Dr. Michael Benarroch, announced that the university would continue to hold the majority of its classes remotely through the Winter 2021 term, utilizing the processes and resources established during Fall 2020. Eclipsing the earlier infection rates which provoked the initial shift…
By Claire Porter Robbins On Himanshu Dev’s first day of class at Western University’s Ivey School of Business, a professor insisted he either shorten or change his name so his classmates would have an easier time remembering and pronouncing it. Mr. Dev served in the Canadian Armed Forces for four years, including in Afghanistan.…
Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 4. 2020 – The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) has been working hard this summer to improve coverage under the UMSU Student Health & Dental Insurance Plan (HDIP), a secondary health plan provided to all UMSU members. “We’re very pleased to offer our members additional coverage for a number of heavily-utilized…
By Jessica Wong, CBC News For many Canadians, continuing on to post-secondary education is a major milestone — a crossover into adulthood away from family, a shift to fuller responsibility and an opportunity to define who you are. This fall, young Canadians are embarking on this momentous journey as the coronavirus pandemic shapes each step of the…