Toban Talks

Cam­pus crime beat, the hock­ey lock­out and the Girth’s CD release show are all discussed.

What will hap­pen with event day park­ing once the new Blue Bomber Sta­di­um is open? News edi­tor Sarah Petz spoke with asso­ciate vice pres­i­dent (admin­is­tra­tion) Alan Simms at Wednes­day’s open house about some of the details of the uni­ver­si­ty’s plan. Seen all those cam­paign posters cov­er­ing Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­tre? That’s right folks, it’s UMSU elec­tion time. We’re joined by com­ment edi­tor Spencer Fer­nan­do and sports edi­tor Marc Legace for anoth­er round of dis­cus­sion on stu­dent aware­ness about the elec­tions and the ban on cam­paign­ing through social media.

This week we’re joined by sports edi­tor Marc Legace and arts and cul­ture edi­tor Ryan Har­by to dis­cuss the devel­op­ment of South­wood Golf course prop­er­ty, the ​“lin­san­i­ty” over NBA star Jere­my Lin, how to avoid the post-read­ing week hang­over, and the bane of every U of M stu­dents’ exis­tence: parking.

Will the uni­ver­si­ty become one big traf­fic night­mare on Bomber game days? Will St. Vital and the U of M be con­nect­ed via a bike/​pedestrian path­way in the near future? Why does every­one on The Man­i­to­ban staff think Bat­man is so freak­ing awe­some? All this and more on this week’s episode on Toban News Desk!

This week’s episode fea­tures inter­views with NDP lead­er­ship can­di­dates Niki Ash­ton and Peg­gy Nash, plus com­ment edi­tor Spencer Fer­nan­do joins us to dis­cuss the CFS Nation­al Day of Action and the upcom­ing UMSU gen­er­al election.

Full inter­view with Niki Ash­ton, MP for Churchill MB and can­di­date for lead­er­ship of the NDP

This week we’re joined again by sci­ence edi­tor Bryce Hoye and sports edi­tor Marc Legace. Lis­ten in for updates on what we’re work­ing on for the upcom­ing issue, includ­ing sto­ries on the U of M’s plan to elim­i­nate sev­er­al fac­ul­ties, and a dis­cus­sion on this week’s fea­ture top­ic, body image.

This week we’re joined by sport edi­tor Marc Legace for an update on Bison Sports. News edi­tor Sarah Petz and sci­ence edi­tor Bryce Hoye also dis­cuss their brush with norovirus – while Sarah is under vol­un­tary quar­an­tine with norovirus.

Top sto­ries include: body found on cam­pus, Occu­py Win­nipeg returns, and ren­o­va­tions to Dafoe Library. Also look for­ward to the return of Crime Beat.

This week we look at Win­nipeg’s recent tran­sit fair increase, UMSU’s hol­i­day ham­per pro­gram, U of M pres­i­dent David Barnard’s future plans, and more. Fea­tur­ing music from Sarah Slean.