News
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Favourite local athlete
1. Brady Oliveira (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
2. Bobby Schink (wrestler)
3. Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg Jets)
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Favourite local politician
1. Wab Kinew
2. Leah Gazan
3. Uzoma Asagwara
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Favourite local grassroots group
1. Mutual Aid Society
2. Bear Clan Patrol
3. Winnipeg Police Cause Harm
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Favourite local achiever over 60
1. Fred Penner
2. Karen Fuhr
3. Lara Rae
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Failure to launch
Canada’s failure to keep its climate commitments reflects the need for more people to do any heavy lifting when it comes to taking climate action and the crisis head-on.
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Campus briefs
MONEY TALKS // WEBINAR WEDNESDAYS // ASK AN ADVISOR // WORK-STUDY PROGRAM // CAREER CHATS ON INSTAGRAM // STUDY ABROAD – SUMMER PROGRAMS // FALL EXAMS // THE WELLNESS HUB
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Devin Latimer, chemistry instructor
Devin Latimer, a chemistry instructor at the University of Winnipeg, hails from the northern Manitoba towns of Lynn Lake and Leaf Rapids.
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City briefs
Continued calls for ceasefire in Gaza // Arlington Bridge closed indefinitely // Bombers lose the Grey Cup // The Good Will says ‘see you later’ // STBBI prevention and ongoing care // Teach-in and discussion on Palestine and genocide
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U of W Rocky Cree Language Project launches app, teachers’ guide
The language one speaks every day, like breathing, is easy to leave unexamined. But as many Indigenous educators, activists and artists point out, languages, and especially regional dialects, carry important, geographically specific cultural and historic context.
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Putting food on the table
Food banks throughout Winnipeg are seeing an increase in clients in need of food as the holiday season approaches.
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‘We don’t have a choice to bleed’
A newly launched Free Flow pilot project at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) now provides free menstrual products in some campus bathrooms, because people “don’t have a choice to bleed.”
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Arts briefs
Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday celebration // A movie you can dance to // Theatrical connections // Sound of Music @ Royal MTC // On the future of Black art in Canada // Celebrating labour and the arts
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Origin Stories: Crumb Queen
Three years have passed since Cloe Wiebe started Crumb Queen.
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Bittersweet farewells
Within 24 hours, Winnipeggers learned that we’ll be bidding farewell to two local institutions of sorts.
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Stopping here
In her book On Fire, Naomi Klein describes a conversation with farmer-poet Wendell Berry. In their discussion, Klein asks Berry for advice “for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put our roots down.”
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The 1906 streetcar strike
A black-and-white photo of a crowd of strikers overturning a streetcar has become one of the most endearing images of the 1919 General Strike. When the event was memorialized with a statue on Winnipeg’s main street, it became one of the signature images associated with the city.
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Campus briefs
MONEY TALKS // WEBINAR WEDNESDAYS // CAREER CHATS ON INSTAGRAM // ASK AN ADVISOR // WORK-STUDY PROGRAM // STUDY ABROAD – SUMMER PROGRAMS // FALL EXAMS // THE WELLNESS HUB // TUTORING SERVICES
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Mary Adedayo, assistant professor of applied computer science
Mary Adedayo is an assistant professor of applied computer science at the University of Winnipeg. Growing up in Ibadan, a small town two hours from Lagos, Nigeria, Adedayo gained a keen sense for understanding and analyzing the world from her family.
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Wesmen goalkeeper named Canada West second-team all-star
Wesmen women’s soccer goalkeeper Madison Priebe is now an all-star. The University of Winnipeg sophomore was recently named a Canada West second-team all-star after a record-breaking 2023 season.
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Gallery 1C03 finds its ‘legs’
Humility can be hard to find. In a culture where women’s empowerment filters through individualism, presented in terms of “badass,” “girlboss” and the “she-conomy” – one might struggle to draw the line between “owning it” and self-obsession, between humility and self-effacement.