UM in the News News Archive
CBC: Underfunding higher education is hurting Manitoba’s economy
March 28, 2016 —
an op-ed on post-secondary education funding
HuffPO: Ghomeshi Trial: Experts Warn Sex Assault Convictions Notoriously Hard To Secure
March 24, 2016 —
"As long as judges are willing to disbelieve women and continue to rely on sexual stereotypes, cases that in my view should be open-and-shut cases, won't be."
Free Press/Sun/Metro: City funding new infrastructure chair at U of M
March 24, 2016 —
"I continue to believe that an investment in the research of new technologies, techniques and materials is an investment in our future."
US Embassy: Canadians Travel to United States for Program on Women in STEM Professions
March 22, 2016 —
Dr.Greenfield goes to Washington
Free Press: Higher indigenous turnout hoped for in provincial vote
March 17, 2016 —
Niigaan Sinclair, head of the native studies department, speaks to media about voting
Global: Manitoba resident granted right to die by doctor assisted death
March 16, 2016 —
"If you’re a competent adult and you’re suffering intolerably you have the right to ask a physician and the physician has the right to give you assistant in hasting your death.”
Sun, Free Press: Manitoba Bisons DL David Onyemata’s NFL Draft stock rises after pro day in Winnipeg
March 15, 2016 —
Several NFL teams sent scouts to the University of Manitoba to watch defensive lineman David Onyemata go through the paces at his Monday pro day.
Op-Ed: The dying are too ill to speak, and the dead will never complain. We must speak for them.
March 11, 2016 —
Harvey Max Chochinov, Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care, writes about the advent of physician-hastened death. We must get our approach to human suffering and palliative care right, he says.
Vice: Why Are There Still Male-Only Scholarships?
March 10, 2016 —
'The University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta have been more proactive in reexamining their scholarships, creating policy that ensures new scholarships adhere to their respective human rights codes.'