Labour Studies professor David Camfield is available to speak to members of the media about RBC using temporary foreign workers.
• David Camfield, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, can be reached at 204-474-9117 (camfield@ms.umanitoba.ca).

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The following University of Manitoba experts are available to comment on the federal government’s upcoming budget:
Economists:
Wayne Simpson, Professor, Department of Economics:
Research and teaching interests: Labour economics, applied microeconomics, quantitative methods and social policy; he has worked for the Bank of Canada and Economic Council of Canada.
Contact: 204-474-6174; simpson@cc.umanitoba.ca
John McCallum, Professor, Department of Accounting & Finance, […]

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Prolonged segregation crosses the line and becomes torture, according to some of the world’s top experts on solitary confinement who will gather at Robson Hall Mar. 22-23.
Around the world, more and more prisoners are kept in isolation, with devastating psychological effects. Some are mentally ill teens like Ashley Smith, whose 2007 death in an Ontario […]

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Winnipeg’s business community will be jolted into thinking about transport in new ways thanks to a series of upcoming lectures co-sponsored by the University of Manitoba.
The Transport Institute in the Asper School of Business is pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Blank, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Governance and Public Administration at the University of […]

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When Tanya Kappo graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall law school in May, 2012, it was clear to her colleagues and friends that her drive and passion would lead her to make an impact in the world. Six months later, Kappo started the #idlenomore Twitter conversation that is now spreading like a Prairie […]

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The next session of the award-winning Visionary Conversations series at the University of Manitoba is titled The New West: The Economic and Political Rise of Western Canada. This is the first of five sessions of 2013.
Visionary Conversations is an engaging, interactive speaker series that brings together our world-class minds to present and discuss issues with […]

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