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…
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…
Do you have a research project related to post-secondary education in mind that you’d like to pursue? Do you have ideas for how UMSU could improve its services, revenue generation or advocacy? Good news: UMSU is taking on students for paid research assistant positions running from February 1 to April 1, 2020. Successful applicants will…
The biometrics requirement exemption for students already in Canada ended this week, the latest change in a series of updates from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada government agency. International students, including those wishing to extend their permit, will now have to travel to one of the country’s 56 Service Canada locations to have their…
By Dermot Kelleher I first stepped foot in Canada in 1985, at the border crossing between Buffalo, New York and Niagara, Ontario. I was a visitor, attending a conference in Toronto by the cheapest possible route. The world was a much bigger place back then; I felt very much like a foreigner and a…