UM Today Archives

March 5, 2025 —  The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on March 6, 2025, in memory of Violet Dyck.

March 5, 2025 —  University of Manitoba History Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Len Kuffert, talks to CTV Morning Live about tariffs and how this trade war is not the first time the United States has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods.

March 5, 2025 —  Christopher Adams, adjunct professor of political studies at the UM speaks to CBC Manitoba about the legislature resuming, public expectations, fiscal challenges and effects of U.S. tariffs.

March 5, 2025 —  Amid soaring rates of HIV and syphilis in Canada – with Indigenous communities in the Prairies being hardest hit – a team of Indigenous leaders and HIV advocates, researchers, health-care workers and people with lived experiences, including HIV, have created the Ayaangwaamiziwin Centre. 

March 5, 2025 —  For some people, surgery can be stressful and anxiety-inducing. It can cause many sleepless nights and make any pain patients are experiencing worse. For Dr. Renée El-Gabalawya clinical health psychologist at the University of Manitoba, she wanted to figure out a way to help patient's mental health before and after an operation.

March 4, 2025 —  The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on March 28, 2025, in memory of Dr. Richard Murray Alwyn Loyns.

March 4, 2025 —  The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on March 7, 2025, in memory of Jeffrey Wayne Paul.

March 4, 2025 —  The Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba will host Manitoba’s only community presentation of Canada’s Black Justice Strategy on Wednesday, March 5 at Robson Hall, 224 Dysart Road. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with keynote and panel discussion at 6:00 p.m. The Faculty of Law welcomes alum Zilla Jones [JD/11] as keynote speaker and co-author of the CBJS, along with panelists Dr. Delia Douglas (Office of Anti-Racism, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences); Ms. Ashley Carruthers, NP (CEO, Nurse Practitioner Association of Manitoba); and Ms. Michelle Jean-Paul (Assistant Superintendent, Louis Riel School Division). The panel will be moderated by Ms. Mandy Ambrose [LLB/01] (Director of Prosecutions, Manitoba Justice).

March 4, 2025 —  Dr. R.M.A (Al) Loyns, retired professor in the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, passed away on February 15, 2025.

March 4, 2025 —  Angie Bruce, Vice-President(Indigenous) joins Faith Fundal of CBC's Up to Speed to discuss the launch of UM's Truth and Reconciliation Framework.