Toban Talks

This episode features…

-Jared McK­e­ti­ak, UMFM Sta­tion Manager

-Michael Elves, UMFM Pro­gram Director

+A spe­cial shoutout goes out to UMFM (101.5 FM) for broad­cast­ing our TobanTalks episodes on Thurs­days at 11:30 am!

+Check out the pro­gram sched­ule to learn more! If you’re inter­est­ed in get­ting involved, drop by the sta­tion on the 3rd floor of Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­tre (between VW’s and Degrees).

+Lis­ten to UMFM any­time! +About UMFM!

This episode features…

-Danielle Pahud, U of M astron­o­my instruc­tor and direc­tor of the Lock­hart Planetarium

-Kait­lyn Goncalves, master’s stu­dent, UMAnime event plan­ner, and cre­ator of man­ga club

-Mar­garet Shaw-MacK­in­non, cre­ator of the exhib­it Ukraine: Close to Home 

This episode features…

-Ezra Taves, copy edi­tor at the Manitoban

-Mor­gan Heck, copy asso­ciate at the Manitoban

+We out­line the Man­i­to­ban’s pub­lish­ing process with a focus on edit­ing and fact-check­ing. Learn about our 1 – 5 sys­tem and just how many arti­cles have been edit­ed by our copy team. (Hint: it’s more than 400!)

This episode features… 

-Alex­is Nor­mand, Fransaskois singer-song­writer and filmmaker

-Coltin Day, Under­world: Mis­thaven guildmaster

-Lau­ren Per­ry, U of M fac­ul­ty of arts stu­dent and Mis­thaven player

+French Enough is a short film that explores the diver­si­ty of Cana­di­an fran­coph­o­ne iden­ti­ties. It is cur­rent­ly avail­able for free stream­ing!

+Under­world: Mis­thaven is one of Manitoba’s dark fan­ta­sy Live Action Role Play (LARP) guild hous­es. Play­ers inter­est­ed in join­ing can find this season’s sched­ul­ing and oth­er infor­ma­tion on the group’s Insta­gram or web­site.

-We eval­u­ate the find­ings from a recent report pub­lished by the UDC on the rise of aca­d­e­m­ic mis­con­duct. We also dis­cuss the ethics of cheat­ing. Read the report about the 2021 – 2022 aca­d­e­m­ic year!

-We get excit­ed about Trou­ble in Mind, a dram­e­dy cap­tur­ing the day-to-day real­i­ties of racism. Buy tick­ets to the Roy­al MTC’s run until March 11! 

Fun fact: Trou­ble in Mind was almost the first play to appear on Broad­way that was writ­ten by a Black woman. Lis­ten to learn more! 

Fea­tured in this episode…

-Arthur Schafer, pro­fes­sor of phi­los­o­phy and found­ing direc­tor of the Cen­tre for Pro­fes­sion­al and Applied Ethics at U of M

-Sheryl Zelen­it­sky, chair of the Uni­ver­si­ty Dis­ci­pline Com­mit­tee (UDC)

-Cheris­sa Richards, Trou­ble in Mind director

This episode features… 

-Tara Williamson, U of M alum & ​“Heart Like a Pow Wow” writer

-Vic­to­ria Romero, UMSU vice-pres­i­dent advo­ca­cy & Man­i­to­ba Alliance of Post-Sec­ondary Stu­dents (MAPSS) Chair 

-Sarah Guille­mard, Manitoba’s min­is­ter of advanced edu­ca­tion and training

Fea­tured in this episode… 

-Rachel Mann, Bisons track and field team

-Shay­na Plaut, exec­u­tive direc­tor of UM’s Cen­tre for Social Sci­ence Research and Policy

-Jesse Hajer, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of eco­nom­ics and labour studies

+CSS­RP Twit­ter +UMSU Insta­gram +UM Black Alliance

This episode features…

-George Zhanel & Frank Schweiz­er, Clar­i­vate’s High­ly Cit­ed Researchers 

-Jordy Zacharias, UM wom­en’s hock­ey assis­tant coach

-GMB Chomichuk, illus­tra­tor & Joey Sen­ft, photographer 

Buy tick­ets for Love You to Death!

This episode features… 

-Mario Pin­to, U of M vice-pres­i­dent research and international

-Tyler Phill, founder and CEO of My Stu­dent Wellbeing

-Philip Fer­gu­son, U of M asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of mechan­i­cal and aero­space engineering

Learn more about My Stu­dent Well­be­ing & STAR­lab!

More infor­ma­tion about secu­ri­ty resources & the stu­dent exchange program!

This episode features…

-Esyllt Jones, UM his­to­ry professor

-Gor­don Per­ri­er, UM direc­tor of security

-Chind­in­ma Chi­jioke, 4th year polit­i­cal stud­ies stu­dent, stu­dent exchange participant