Campus
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News Briefs
International Powwow // West Broadway Youth Outreach Dreams Film Festival // Candidates debate at Portage Place // UWSA approves darkroom renovations // Five profs receive funding
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Seeding knowledge
Getting to Canada as an immigrant or refugee is the first part of a journey, but it can take a lot more work to set up a life here. Programs like the Global Welcome Centre (GWC), which is located on campus but also serves the greater community in Winnipeg, are here to help.
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Setting the stage
The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg will be thriving again with the energy of FemFest 2015. The festival showcases diverse voices through varying art forms for a week in September and emphasizes the work of women, both locally and nationally.
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Free art on campus
University isn’t just about education. It’s a meeting place, a chance for both new students and old hands to make connections and engage with communities they haven’t experienced before.
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The Urban Issue 2015
Winnipeg is _______.
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Winnipeg Is: The Merchants
What was once a notorious hotel in Winnipeg’s North End will soon be home to academic and community engagement.
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Winnipeg Is: Community renewal
It may have taken ten years and $217 million, but the University of Winnipeg may have finally filled in its “moat."
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Winnipeg Is: Embracing the Trimbee era
Dr. Annette Trimbee, U of W graduate and former Alberta Deputy Minister of Advanced Education, is now well in to her first year as U of W’s President and Vice-Chancellor. Many exciting things have happened under her watch including the recent $825,000 grant to develop the Graduate Studies program. Dr. Trimbee joined us over the phone to reflect on her year, current issues on campus and the future of the U of W.
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The PROFile - Devin Latimer
While the rest of us shoveled snow in a bitterly cold January, Devin Latimer was in New Delhi, India presenting at The 5th Asia-Oceania Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
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Fairy tales in the real world
If you’re a fan of modern fairy tale films that are an edgier, more provocative version of the original, odds are good you’ll want to attend this upcoming University of Winnipeg (U of W) event.
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UWSA election season off to slow start
In less than two weeks hundreds of University of Winnipeg students will take to the polls to elect the 2015-16 board of directors for the U of W Students’ Association (UWSA).
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u of w’s graduate studies program awarded competitive grant
The University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) has been awarded an $825,000 grant to be distributed through 2018, and more than half of the funding will go to incoming international students.
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A celebration of scholarship
“The first time I set foot on campus was at the spring powwow eight years ago,” current powwow co-ordinator Grace Redhead-Clarke says over coffee in the Aboriginal Student Lounge.
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These white eyes on me…
“Dear White People, please stop touching my hair, does this look like a petting zoo to you?"
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Energetic debate
TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline promises to benefit the economy and create jobs but critics argue those benefits come at a cost.
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Youth voice strong in leadership campaign
With the NDP’s long-awaited and controversial leadership convention beginning on Mar. 6, candidates Steve Ashton, Greg Selinger and Theresa Oswald are busy making final attempts to garner support and strengthen their chance of emerging from Canad Inns Polo Park on Mar. 8 as the NDP leader of Manitoba.
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Here comes the sun
It’s time again to mess with the time.
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Understanding Through Education
Full disclosure: I am not First Nations, Métis, or Inuit. I’m as Irish/French-Canadian as they come. But that’s partially why I think the new mandatory graduation requirement being proposed by the University of Winnipeg Student’s Association (UWSA) and University of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Students’ Council is so essential.
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Streeter
Are you in favor or the implementation of a mandatory indigenous component at the University of Winnipeg?
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Significant cinema
It’s easy to take the right to an education for granted.