News
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What do you think of recent business development in the Exchange District?
What do you think of recent business development in the Exchange District? Are you excited about what is happening in the area?
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Fox and Fiddle brings new life to the Exchange
The most recent player in the Exchange District’s ongoing business resurgence comes from an unlikely place.
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Spectator Tribune launches online amid reports of Uptown layoffs
As another wave of job cuts strike Winnipeg’s print media landscape - this time hitting the Winnipeg Free Press-owned Uptown Magazine - one local entrepreneur has his sights set on the virtual gap being left behind.
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Premier courts trade with China while critics decry dangers to sovereignty
Despite fears and objections from experts and the federal opposition, the Manitoba NDP is moving towards integration with China - just like their federal Conservative counterparts.
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Heritage rivers under threat
Proposed legislative changes in the federal government’s omnibus budget bill will strip away protections from the majority of Canada’s waterbodies, environmentalists say.
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Campus News Briefs
Revisiting Rooster Town; Richardson College wins accessibility award; Ida Albo honoured; Arctic discussions come to U of W
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Wesmen Briefs
Women’s soccer wrap up regular season; Men’s soccer win final home match
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Keeping up the momentum
Amid controversy over a possible name change, the Wesmen volleyball teams prepare for a new season.
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Caffeinated chocolate: energy’s new flavour
As 20-somethings and university students are well aware, caffeine is the beez-neez.
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Sweet moves at the Duckworth Centre
You have probably marveled at the dance/fight acrobatics of capoeira before, either as featured in ‘90s rebel-high school-redemption flick Only the Strong and Vincent Cassel’s brilliant laser evasion scene in Ocean’s Twelve or, most likely, at the most bedazzling annual cultural performance in Winnipeg each year, the Brazilian Folklorama pavilion.
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Conservative cuts to environmental research
Given the recent funding cut to the Environmental Lakes Area, what do you think of Conservative cuts to environmental research?
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Campus News Briefs
Pilar joins university; Helping teachers create LGBTQ-safe schools; U of W to address isotope shortage; Faculty and staff to be awarded at convocation
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International News Briefs
Director faces prison for violating probation; Strikes create economic turmoil; Taliban shoots youth activist; Constitution draft limits human rights; Abuse, torture reports alarming, Amnesty says
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Local News Briefs
Harvest raises record $314K at auction; Papa George’s serves final meal; City mulls cancelling Shindico contracts; NHL lockout takes its toll on city’s downtown
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‘Like a slap in the face of history’
It’s a plan in its infant stages, but one that has outraged both students and athletes.
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University of Winnipeg employee arrested
When he came to Canada to study, Adnan Farooq never imagined a bureaucratic snafu would lead to him being handcuffed, strip-searched and subsequently detained for more than two days in jail, sharing a cell with a man who told him he had “butchered” a person with a machete.
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Scientists protest funding cuts to Experimental Lakes Area
Canada’s environment is taking a backseat to the pursuit of economic prosperity built around the country’s tar sands, a founding director of the Experimental Lakes Area says.
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Help The Uniter choose the 2012 Uniter 30
We are currently planning the 2012 edition and we want your input.
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Wesmen Briefs
Men’s basketball lose on the road in pre-season; Men’s soccer comes away with two tie games on the road
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Nikos Salingaros: Biology, the city and responsible design
Since the early 20th century, cities around the world have been moving largely - and steadfastly - in the wrong direction.