Jihan Muhamad
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New programs bridge divide
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM) recently announced two new programs to address the differences newcomers face and raise awareness through discussion.
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Young, attractive students seek older, established supporters
While students often turn to their parents for help meeting the financial demands of school, some are looking to a sweeter variety of mommies and daddies to meet their needs. They’re using online dating websites that connect young, attractive males and females (known as sugar babies) to older, successful men and women (known as sugar daddies and sugar mamas).
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Protest on campus
About 45 protesters from the University of Winnipeg Geography and Environmental Studies Student’s Association launched a demonstration in a packed Riddell Hall this past Monday, Nov. 9 to raise awareness of the climate change conference being held in Copenhagen, Denmark by the United Nations Dec. 7-18.
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Networking not working yet
Four weeks after the province announced StreetReach, a program that would co-ordinate the work of 25 professionals and 22 community resource centres to protect youth from sexual exploitation, it’s not clear how these resource centers have come together.
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Power-sucking appliances part of the problem
The drive to conserve energy use was taken to a new level when California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger set out to ban plasma TVs over 40 inches wide. The move by California’s Energy Commission has the support of many environmentalists.
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Campus News Briefs
Punk prophet to kick off speaker series; U of W ranks high in Globe and Mail report; Largest donation to Canadian law school; Clinton accepts honour from McGill University
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Highway to the safety zone
As a 10-year plan to make Canada’s roads the world’s safest nears its end, Canadian officials are still trying to change drivers’ behaviour and reduce injuries and fatalities.
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SpeakUpWinnipeg.com gets a response
SpeakUpWinnipeg.com has had hundreds of thousands of page views since its launch on Apr. 25. Ian Hall, policy and program planner with SpeakUp Winnipeg, said he thinks the website has been successful because urban planning has been raised in public conversation.
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U-lock it, or they’ll do it for you
Security for bicycles at the University of Winnipeg used to come in the form of a little yellow flag attached to anything that wasn’t a U-lock, telling you your bike is not safe. Last year, U of W security upped the protection ante by adding their own steel U-lock to as many potential theft cases as possible. This means anyone using a wire lock on their bike could end up having to go to the security office and reclaim their own bicycle.
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Social promotion in the schools
What do you think of the practice of passing students, in elementary and junior high, when they don’t have passing grades?