Deadline extended: Honouring the Indigenous Campus Community 2025

Deadline extended: Honouring the Indigenous Campus Community 2025

March 21, 2025 —
Do you know an Indigenous campus community member who is making a difference?

campus community, Faculty and Staff, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, graduate students, Indigenous, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Students

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Alt text: "Book cover of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the author wearing glasses and a scarf. The Canada Reads 2025 winner badge is placed on the cover.

A Two-Spirit Journey wins CBC’s Canada Reads 2025

March 21, 2025 —
A University of Manitoba Press book has won this year’s Canada Reads Competition. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer, was championed in the competition by Shayla Stonechild, the award-winning TV host of APTN's Red Earth Uncovered and the founder of the Matriarch Movement, "a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement, and medicine."

CBC Canada Reads, University of Manitoba Press

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"University of Manitoba Bisons women’s volleyball team celebrates their 2025 U SPORTS National Championship victory. Players, wearing championship hats and medals, cheer and raise the championship trophy high as gold, black, and white confetti rains down. A University of Manitoba and Bisons-branded banner hangs in the background, highlighting the team’s triumphant moment.

Bisons Women’s Volleyball win the 2025 U SPORTS National Championship

March 16, 2025 —
The No. 3 seeded Herd captured their eighth title in school history with a commanding 3-1 win over the No. 4 seed.

Bisons

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A view of the administration building with green space in front

Students

Bargaining updates available on Labour Relations website

March 7, 2025 —
Site also provides resources on collective agreements and current status of bargaining process

labour relations

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A large group of people gathered outdoors, wearing blue "Bison Pride" T-shirts, holding a banner that reads "Bison Pride" with rainbow-colored letters. They are cheering with their hands raised, showing support for LGBTQ+ pride. The group includes individuals of diverse ages and backgrounds, standing in front of a historic stone building on a sunny day. Some participants hold rainbow flags and UM-branded signs, representing the University of Manitoba's presence at a pride event.

Human Resources

UM recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for 2025

February 25, 2025 —
The University of Manitoba is proud to be recognized once again as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for 2025!

Faculty and Staff, human resources

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Photo of famous Toronto Criminal defence lawyer Marie Henein leaning on one elbow with her face in one hand, looking piecingly at the camera. She wears all black with one hand pressed on the table in front of her. Her face is expressionless.

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Law to host Harry Walsh, O.C., Q.C. Lecture featuring keynote Marie Henein, K.C.

February 24, 2025 —
All members of the legal community are invited to join us for this lecture held in honour of Harry Walsh, O.C., LL.D., Q.C., one of Canada's most legendary advocates who fought for the abolition of capital punishment in Canada and helped found Legal Aid Manitoba.

donor relations, Faculty of Law, Harry Walsh, Law Donor

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Two Black students smiling, at the Asper School of Business

Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

Black Flourishing at UM

January 29, 2025 —
From bookclubs and podcasts to keynote speeches and panel discussions, the 2024-25 Promoting Black Flourishing Fund showcase the creativity and diversity of the Black community at UM.

anti-racism, Black History Month, Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Equity Transformation, promoting black flourishing fund, provost and vice-president (academic), Staff, Students

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Image is the book covers for A Two-Spirit Journey and When the Pine Needles Fall.

UM on the Canada Reads 2025 longlist

January 22, 2025 —
Two books with strong ties to the University of Manitoba have been selected for this year’s CBC's Canada Reads competition: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer published by University of Manitoba Press and When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with UM Assistant Professor in History and Indigenous Studies Sean Carleton.

CBC Canada Reads, University of Manitoba Press

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