The first episode of the new year! In this week's episode we cover the protest on January 9 at the Portage and Main intersection as an act of solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en land protectors in British Columbia (1:31). We spoke with Muslim Student Association external executive Mohamed Soussi in regards to UMSU executives, including UMSU president Jakob Sanderson, lobbying members of Parliament in early December along with the Undergraduates of Canadian Research-Intensive Universities (UCRU) on several priorities, one of which, was to eliminate the federal tuition tax credit (4:41). University of Winnipeg associate professor Julie Nagam’s solo exhibit, locating the little heartbeats, is currently on display at the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03 until Feb. 16, and we spoke with Julie to discuss the exhibit, including the inspiration behind the display and what it means to her (14:47). Finally, we spoke with U of M student Michelle Wuziniski to discuss her award-winning paper titled "Developing a Genotyping Scheme for Myobacterium abcessus Complex Using Whole Genome Sequencing Data." (23:00).