News
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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.
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Portage Place marks 25th anniversary
On Sept. 17, 1987, Portage Place Shopping Centre - a $300 million retail, office and residential development meant to revitalize the north face of Portage Avenue - opened to thousands of frenzied customers in downtown Winnipeg.
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Osborne House idles in funding limbo
A local emergency shelter for women and children escaping domestic abuse sits in limbo as it awaits the results of a provincial review that could determine the future of its funding.
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Can Winnipeg afford an adequate level of bus safety?
Unions representing transit workers in Winnipeg are calling for the development of a transit police system, but municipal budget pressures are preventing its development.
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Such great heights
The inability to lift your own body weight is embarrassing, even crushingly so, without an audience. You can imagine then, my reaction to the suggestion of trying out an aerial fabrics class during Culture Days.
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Development on Donald Street
While it’s virtually impossible to miss the massive CentrePoint construction project currently in the works at the corner of Donald Street and Portage Avenue, Winnipeggers may be unaware just how many other changes are also taking place down the street.
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All walks of life, for life
It’s been 20 years since Ken Mumford was diagnosed with HIV, but Sept. 23 was the first time he found himself among hundreds as part of the 2012 AIDS Walk for Life downtown.
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Local News Briefs
Manitoba’s deficit nears $1B; Chief of staff nets six-figure severance; Liberation therapy comes to Winnipeg; More legal aid lawyers needed
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International News Briefs
Gay therapy tossed in ‘dustbin of quackery’; Greek recession continues; Eurozone unemployment rises; Japan passes piracy laws
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Winnipeg student associations push for yearly transit pass
Student associations at several Winnipeg universities are aggressively pursuing the possible creation of an annual transit pass.
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Heading off early struggles
The move from a small conference to the CIS this season has the Wesmen soccer teams feeling some growing pains.