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1 week ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charles Lefebvre |Milan Lukes
Manitoba declares state of emergency as northern communities evacuate due to wildfire threatUpdated: May 28, 2025 at 5:48PM EDTPublished: May 28, 2025 at 10:19AM EDTViewer video shows a wildfire burning on Highway 10 between Wanless and The Sturgeon landing turnoff on May 27, 2025.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
I have always wondered what kinds of archives the U of M has and what archivists do every time I pass by the Archives and Special Collections on the third floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library. To find answers, I spoke with Nicole Aminian, the reference and discovery archivist at the university. Aminian has worked as an archivist at the university since 2018. Her responsibilities include helping students and faculty navigate the collections, as well as engaging with the public.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
Voting for the 2025-26 University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) annual general election will occur from Thursday, March 6 at 8 a.m. until Friday, March 7 at 5 p.m. The final timeline of the upcoming election was presented during the Jan. 16 UMSU board of directors meeting. The timeline presentation was prepared by chief electoral officer Jodie Smith and was presented by Christopher Yendt, interim chairperson of the board, as Smith was unable to attend the meeting.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
Chairperson of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) board of directors, Nicholas Lu, and UMSU governance administrative coordinator, Lauren Slegers, have both resigned. The announcement was made during the Jan. 16 UMSU board of directors meeting by UMSU president Divya Sharma. “You’re probably wondering where our chair is,” said Sharma during the start of the meeting. “Unfortunately, our chair has resigned and we will be looking for a different chair,” she said.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes |Ebunoluwa Akinbo
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) board of directors amended the UMSU election manual at the Jan. 16 meeting. The changes put forward in Motion 0636 by the governance committee followed the 2024 chief returning officer’s report which outlined changes to make to the manual.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) hosted an interactive legal workshop on housing rights in the UMSU council chambers on Jan. 14. The workshop, led by lawyer Dayna Steinfeld of RavenLaw LLP, informed students on lease agreements, the Residential Tenancies Act, the Residential Tenancies Branch, tenant and landlord rights and options if rights are breached.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes |Ebunoluwa Akinbo
CBC Manitoba will be at the U of M each weekday from Monday, Jan. 20 to Friday, Jan. 31 to hear issues that matter to students. This initiative is part of Communities in Focus, a community news bureau project that intends to hear stories from Manitobans and share them with others in the province. “Here at CBC Manitoba, we recognize that we need to do a better job at reflecting underrepresented groups,” said Nadia Kidwai, senior producer of CBC Manitoba’s Community Connection.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
A motion put forward at the Dec. 5 University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) board of directors meeting by the governance committee has failed to be carried in a tied vote. Motion 0633 sought to adopt a revised UMSU bylaw document which contained several changes to board meeting procedures. In July, UMSU’s executive committee put forward Motion 0618 which called for a governing document review.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes
Operating funds of the university’s Security Services show an increasing trend over the past decade from 2014-24, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Despite the trend, since 2021-22, funding for Security Services has been on the decline, decreasing by $178,688 — or 5.5 per cent — to $3,097,245 for the 2023-24 fiscal year.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
themanitoban.com | Milan Lukes |Ebunoluwa Akinbo
The chair of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) judicial board disclosed the outcome of a conflict of interest investigation regarding an UMSU executive at the Nov. 21 board of directors meeting. In a written report to the UMSU board of directors, judicial board chair Jared Murphy wrote that the “judicial board has thus decided that this complaint was unwarranted, and a conflict of interest does not exist.” The judicial board reached the decision on the complaint on Nov. 18. On Oct.
