UM Today Archives

December 18, 2025 —  The rates of heart attacks, strokes and nearly every major chronic disease have declined over the past two decades in Manitoba, but the rate of diabetes is soaring, says a comprehensive data study conducted by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at the University of Manitoba.

December 17, 2025 —  Matthew Tétreault, assistant professor in the department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba talked with CBC host Faith Fundal about Garnet J. Wolseley controversial history in Manitoba. 

December 17, 2025 —  Gagnon says the leaders and supervisors, the people who are with the campers every day, are the ones who make the biggest difference tothe camp experience.

December 17, 2025 —  Jennifer Hedges, an assistant professor in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of social work and a former social worker, says situations where emergency placement workers are sending kids to school in dirty or inappropriate clothes or not teaching them how to brush their teeth shouldn’t be happening — and if they are, it’s important to find out why.

December 17, 2025 —  Souradet Shaw [BA/97, M.Sc./09, PhD/18] is an expert at analyzing public health data to shed light on the spread of infectious diseases.

December 16, 2025 —  Is anybody else feeling the heat? Manitoba's November inflation rate is over one per cent higher than the national average. Julie Buckingham filling in for Host Faith Fundal, speaks with Shiu-Yik Au, a finance professor at University of Manitoba to find out why. 

December 16, 2025 —  CTV's Maralee Caruso speaks with political scientist Dr. Christopher Adams, adjunct professor of political science at the University of Manitoba about the recent Conservative floor crossings, and what this means for Pierre Poilievre.

December 16, 2025 —  From November 27–28, 2025, law students from the University of Manitoba’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts travelled to The Pas to bring free legal services to northern residents. It was their second visit to the town in recent years, following a trip to Thompson last spring.

December 16, 2025 —  Season's Greetings, everyone, and congratulations on all the hard work you have put in this year across the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

December 16, 2025 —  Tréchelle Bunn has been having an extraordinary year – make that two years. Since first setting foot in Robson Hall, the third-year law student from Wampum, Manitoba, has been making a huge impact on every community she is part of, be it furthering Truth and Reconciliation, or working to improve access to justice for incarcerated persons. From organizing an annual Reconciliation Run in her home community of the Birdtail Sioux First Nation to speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf of Indigenous Peoples, Bunn proceeds with quiet determination and a passion for challenges.