City committee takes brakes off U-Pass
The universal transit pass (U-Pass) is now in the hands of Winnipeg city council and the University of Manitoba Board of Governors (BOG) after recommendations…
UMSU
Leave us alone
Bannatyne is not Fort Garry. While this statement is self-evident, it is not always so to the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU). The most…
Why student politics matter
This year’s election for the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive had a different character than usual. There was a sense that the stakes…
UMSU domain dispute with CFS continues
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) is planning to break away from the Canadian Federation of Students’ (CFS) web and other services even after…
Leave the tweets out of it
Shortly after Christopher Bélanger confirmed his candidacy for the position of vice-president internal of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), a set of screenshots…
Heated UMSU election results in mixed executive
The 2015 UMSU general election turned out to be a nail biter, with students electing five candidates from the two competing executive slates, resulting in…
New rules for UMSU elections
The 2015 General Election of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union will be the first to feature new rules related to election penalties after UMSU…
Your UMSU
Two candidates from each executive slate in the UMSU General Election sat down with the Manitoban after the first week of campaigning to answer questions…
Profile of UMSU’s 2015 community representative candidates
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union Council includes five seats reserved for community representatives. They are the Aboriginal students’ representative, international students’ representative, LGBTTQ* representative,…
Online voting off the table this year
University of Manitoba students will be voting using paper ballots again during this week’s University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) General Election after the union…