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Feb 7, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Elah Ajene |Bahareh Rashidi
Last month, U of M assistant professor in the college of nursing Tara Horrill was among the winners of the Canadian Cancer Society’s 2023 Emerging Scholar Research Grants competition, receiving funding for her research aimed at addressing barriers faced by socially disadvantaged individuals dealing with lung cancer.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Rhea Bhalla |Bahareh Rashidi
Before babies are even born, they begin learning how to speak. In the uterus, they hear and respond to voices and start to understand how words, rhythm, sound and speed of speech work together as part of language. Once born, babies watch other people and learn to copy the facial and tongue movements that produce speech. The development of language in babies is a research focus of Melanie Soderstrom, U of M psychology professor and director of the Baby Language Lab.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Hanako Teranishi |Bahareh Rashidi
My favourite part of the holiday season as a student is the break we are finally rewarded with after the fall semester’s constant bombardment of work. During the break, there are always many fun festivities. But what I value most is the time I am allowed to nurture the connections I share with my family and friends. Nurturing can vary from sharing food, to meeting for drinks without having to worry about an assignment being due next Friday to reading in silence with one another.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Rhea Bhalla |Bahareh Rashidi
Each year in Canada, over 300,000 people give birth. High quality, accessible care helps ensure their safe transition from pregnancy, to birth, to the postpartum period. More Canadian jurisdictions are regulating and funding midwives, and demand for midwives has grown in recent years.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Adam Johnston |Bahareh Rashidi
Wab Kinew and the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) defeated the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives (PCs) in the provincial election earlier this October. The centre-left NDP ran a relatively moderate campaign with limited attention on climate change, public and active transportation.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Bahareh Rashidi
In this economy, the discarded microwaves and half-eaten red velvet cakes in my apartment complex’s dumpster are their own sweet temptations. However, I am defiant in private and a pathetic rule-follower in public. I can’t bring myself to take anything. Under Winnipeg bylaws, scavenging or picking through garbage bins that you don’t own is prohibited. Similarly, Winnipeg disallows rifling through garbage at designated waste disposal sites. Obviously, this bylaw is not strictly enforced.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Elah Ajene |Bahareh Rashidi
In 2018, the University of Manitoba was named the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) Hub for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 — clean water and sanitation.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Bahareh Rashidi
1977’s Between the Lines opens on a group of 20-something beatnik amateur journalists surviving on cigarettes, weekday booze and sexual misadventures. These characters — including bizarro dud of a music critic Max played by Jeff Goldblum — are backgrounded by a dishearteningly shelled out journalistic landscape. I will ignore that in favour of the film’s secondary commentary on relationships — how friendships form with their contexts.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Bahareh Rashidi
Noise ruins my life. All of the windows in my apartment face the back of a shopping complex. Sometimes there’s yelling as someone careens out the back exit with their shoplifting spoils. Adding to this hellish symphony is a loudspeaker that the complex’s 24-hour security uses to yell at dumpster divers.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Bahareh Rashidi
Sometimes we grow attached to art because it speaks to our values, and it hurts when we find out the history behind that art doesn’t align with our image of it. The critically acclaimed Disco Elysium is a 2019 role-playing video game from Estonian game studio ZA/UM. You play as an amnesiac alcoholic middle-aged cop at rock bottom with no redeeming qualities to his name.
