MRU Media: 2/28/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Nenshi leads Calgary trade delegation to India amid that country’s unrest: https://mru.ca/0221 (Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun – Tim Rahilly, president)
Mayor Nenshi leading an economic mission to India: https://mru.ca/a4c2 (Calgary’s Business – Tim Rahilly, faculty)
Budget doesn’t support education in Alberta: education leaders: https://mru.ca/7997 (660 News)
Alberta Budget 2020: Student leaders disappointed, but not surprised by government cuts: https://mru.ca/624a (Calgary Journal – Shifrah Gadasmetti, student)
Students/experts/alum in the news
Alberta budget banks on critical revenue boosts despite market ‘volatility,’ rising debt: https://mru.ca/0109 (Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun – David Taras, faculty)
Toss out sports. Ditch drama. Why the CBC needs radical change to survive: https://mru.ca/ebe3 (The Star – David Taras, faculty)
VIDEO: Prince George woman wins international award as Marilyn Monroe impersonator: https://mru.ca/9d69 (Prince George Matters – Kat Fullerton, alumna)
Alberta Prime Time, Politics Panel: https://mru.ca/e14b (CTV 2 – Archie McLean, faculty)
What is Tik Tok?: https://mru.ca/6f15 (Calgary Journal – Adrianne Reyes, student)
Talks between Wet’suwet’en and Canadian state won’t produce a quick fix: https://mru.ca/cc2f (National Observer – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Human rights concerns mount as Gitxsan hereditary chiefs and Mohawk land defenders arrested by Canadian police: https://mru.ca/5fc (Rabble.ca – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Also worth noting
Alberta budget 2020: Advanced education funding cut 6.3 per cent, tuition to rise: https://mru.ca/9aa (Edmonton Journal)
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MRU Media: 2/27/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Nenshi, presidents of Calgary universities to lead economic mission to India: https://mru.ca/a3ad (CTV News – Tim Rahilly, president)
After US Prez, a Canada Mission headed to India: https://mru.ca/5f85 (APN News, India – Tim Rahilly, president)
Mayor Nenshi leads Calgary delegation on India economic mission: https://mru.ca/3366 (The Canadian Business Journal – Tim Rahilly, president)
40-year-old volleyball star leading historic season for Mount Royal University Cougars: https://mru.ca/d876 (Global News – https://mru.ca/7fbd2 (Global News – Tasha Tasha Holness, Dolly Thokbuom, Chantel Park, students; Sandra Lamb, staff)
MRU approves tuition, student services fee increases: https://mru.ca/1068 (Academica – Tim Rahilly, president; Shayla Breen, SAMRU)
Students/experts/alum in the news
Alberta Throne Speech focuses on employment: https://mru.ca/5caa (CTV News Channel – Lori Williams, faculty)
Alberta Prime Time Crime Panel: https://mru.ca/4186 (CTV 2 Alberta Prime Time – Ritesh Narayan, faculty)
Bank of Canada announces scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/f156 (Bankofcanada.ca – Athina Sofocleous, student)
Laying it out: What comes next can’t be arrested away: https://mru.ca/856a (Medicine Hat News – Roberta Lexier, faculty)
Also worth noting
Alberta legislature rally planned to support public sector while budget is being tabled: https://mru.ca/b23a (Global News)
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MRU Media: 2/26/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Raising awareness on reducing plastics: New booklet and campus event challenge community to change behavior: https://mru.ca/3fde (Education News Canada – Ruth Pickett-Seltner, Celeste MacConnachie, faculty)
Students/experts/alum in the news
Report on Alberta’s median income doesn’t paint the whole picture: economists: https://mru.ca/592c (CityNews, 660 News website – Anupam Das, faculty)
Median income report doesn’t reflect unemployment rate: https://mru.ca/ca6d (660 News – Anupam Das, faculty)
More belt-tightening predicted in provincial budget: https://mru.ca/acf1 (News 770, CHQR – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Alberta Prime Time: Monday Political Panel: https://mru.ca/d6c9 (CTV 2 – Lori Williams, faculty)
New law won’t prevent blockades: https://mru.ca/444 (Global News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
MRU alum Jesse Lees locks down spot in ECHL: https://mru.ca/e133 (Calgary Sun – Jesse Lees, student; Bert Gilling, staff)
2020 Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/048 (CBC News – Hadeel Abdel-Nabi, Sam Nar, students)
Laying it out: What comes next can’t be arrested away: https://mru.ca/856a (Medicine Hat News – Roberta Lexier, faculty)
Bank of Canada announces scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/f156 (Bankofcanada.ca – Athina Sofocleous, student)
What is Tik Tok?: https://mru.ca/6f15 (Calgary Journal – Adrianne Reyes, student)
A new face at the Bulletin: https://mru.ca/bb51 (Kimberley Bulletin – Paul Rodgers, alumnus)
Also worth noting
Alberta throne speech: focus on jobs, attracting investment: https://mru.ca/5668 (Edmonton Journal)
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MRU Media: 2/25/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
MRU board raises tuition and student fees citing provincial budget cuts: https://mru.ca/9aba (CBC News – Tim Rahilly, president; Annalise Van Ham, VP; Shayla Breen, SAMRU; Kenna Olsen, faculty and BOG; Anisa Tilston, Rachel Timmermans, students)
Mount Royal University board approves tuition hike, students hold silent protest: https://mru.ca/6b2 (Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun/Edmonton Journal- Tim Rahilly, president; Shayla Breen, SAMRU)
Student tuition and fee hike approved at Mount Royal University: https://mru.ca/8ea7 (CHQR, 770 News)
Students call for government to find better ways to balance budget: https://mru.ca/70c7 (CBC Radio News)
Students/experts/alum in the news
2020 Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/048 (CBC News – Hadeel Abdel-Nabi, Sam Nar, students)
Historian says Canada uses police force to ‘protect the economy’ instead of dealing with Indigenous concerns: https://mru.ca/4707 (CTV News – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Police move in on blockades: https://mru.ca/106a (CTV News Channel – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Unease within Alberta’s resource sector after Teck withdraws oilsands mine application: https://mru.ca/71c2 (CTV News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Court win but resource project loss for Alberta: https://mru.ca/0269 (CBC TV News – Lori Williams, faculty)
Why Jason Kenney is playing nice with Justin Trudeau amid Wet’suwet’en protests: https://mru.ca/9f44 (The Star – Lori Williams, faculty)
Why did Teck pull the plug?: https://mru.ca/fd1f (CBC Radio, As it Happens – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Alberta Prime Time: Monday Political Panel: https://mru.ca/d6c9 (CTV 2 – Lori Williams, faculty)
Laying it out: What comes next can’t be arrested away: https://mru.ca/856a (Medicine Hat News – Roberta Lexier, faculty)
Bank of Canada announces scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/f156 (Bankofcanada.ca – Athina Sofocleous, student)
Also worth noting
Man arrested for random assault at Calgary’s St. Mary’s University: https://mru.ca/69e1 (Calgary Herald)
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MRU Media: 2/24/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Will tech be Alberta’s next big thing? Industry and schools are a hard yes: https://mru.ca/8e7 (CBC News – Jonathan Withey, dean)
Will the coronavirus affect Albertans and MRU students?: https://mru.ca/4f15 (The Reflector – Rachelle McGrath, staff)
Campus roundup: B-ball Dinos lose, hope for invite to Final 8: https://mru.ca/38e9 (Calgary Sun/Calgary Herald – MRU Cougars)
Students/experts/alum in the news
Teck withdraws application for $20B Frontier oilsands mine: https://mru.ca/9660 (CBC News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Rail blockade still up near Belleville: https://mru.ca/2c9e (CTV News Channel, News 880 CJAD – Sean Carleton, faculty)
‘Overheated rhetoric’: Nenshi says Buffalo Declaration will scare off investors: https://mru.ca/37e7 (Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun – David Taras, Lori Williams, faculty)
The Buffalo Declaration: Fact-checking four Alberta MPs’ demands: https://mru.ca/5b73 (Huffington Post – Lori Williams, faculty)
What does spike in cost for Trans Mountain Pipeline mean for its future?: https://mru.ca/b6e4 (CJOB 680 Winnipeg – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Alberta MPs issue Buffalo Declaration to call on Ottawa to address western alienation: https://mru.ca/8427 (Global News – Lori Williams, faculty)
Also worth noting
B.C. mother pleads guilty in U.S. college admissions scheme: https://mru.ca/a3f0 (CBC News)
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MRU Media: 2/21/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Fourth-ranked Cougars v-ball squad out to make noise in Canada West playoffs: https://mru.ca/dca3 (Calgary Sun – Women’s volleyball, Sandra Lamb, staff; Tasha Holness, student)
Students/experts/alum in the news
How vaping companies appeal to today’s teens: https://mru.ca/ec6b (THIS Magazine – Eliza Balkwill, student)
MacKay faces backlash over now-deleted tweet that critics say promoted vigilantism: https://mru.ca/0608 (CBC News – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Four Conservative MPs warn Alberta separatist movement could rise unless Ottawa fixes ‘inequities’: https://mru.ca/aa009 (CBC – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Buffalo Declaration demands changes to confederation: https://mru.ca/d2fe (CBC Radio News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Rempel Garner, Tory MPs raise spectre of Western separation with ‘Buffalo Declaration’: https://mru.ca/4830 (The Star – Lori Williams, faculty)
Alberta Prime Time Politics Panel: https://mru.ca/4ad4 (CTV 2 – Archie McLean, faculty)
Blockade vigilantism could lead to dangerous situations: https://mru.ca/ebc4 (CHED – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Protest blockades continue: https://mru.ca/dd339 (Global News Edmonton – Duane Bratt, faculty)
What does spike in cost for Trans Mountain Pipeline mean for its future?: https://mru.ca/b6e4 (CJOB 680 Winnipeg – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Bank of Canada announces scholarship recipients: https://mru.ca/f156 (Bankofcanada.ca – Athina Sofocleous, student)
Also worth noting
‘We’re responding to this threat’: University of Alberta works to help stop novel coronavirus: https://mru.ca/6538 (Edmonton Journal)
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MRU Media: 2/20/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Calgary art listings for winter 2020: https://mru.ca/c052 (Calgary Herald – Exposure Photography Festival)
Students/experts/alum in the news
U SPORTS to unveil Top 100 women’s basketball players of the century: https://mru.ca/3b38 (Usports.ca – Karla Karch, staff)
Randy in the Rings: Sudbury connections key for NWT entry at Scotties: https://mru.ca/b791 (Sutbury Star – Sarah Koltun, alumna)
Alberta at Noon: Your reaction to the rail blockades: https://mru.ca/7466 Alberta at Noon – Duane Bratt, faculty
New ‘vexatious’ rules worry freedom of information advocates that feds can abuse the system: https://mru.ca/b9e4 (Edmonton Journal – Sean Holman, faculty)
Also worth noting
University of Saskatchewan hit with cyberattack: https://mru.ca/b18 (CBC News)
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MRU Media: 2/19/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
Students/experts/alum in the news
Alberta at Noon: Open office plans: https://mru.ca/7059 (CBC Radio – Christian Cook, faculty)
The future of education: Personalized learning among growing trends: https://mru.ca/2c15 (Calgary Herald – Jodi Nickel, faculty)
The life of a voluntary cyborg: https://mru.ca/a47 (University Affairs – Tamara Banbury, alumna)
Trudeau seems determined to walk political tightrope: https://mru.ca/8166 (CBC News at 6 – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Emergency debate on blockades: https://mru.ca/938a (CTV News Channel – Lori Williams, faculty)
Echoes of Oka Crisis in current blockade: https://mru.ca/edbc (AM 900 News Talk Hamilton – Sean Carleton)
House of Commons resumes amid anti-pipeline protests, blockades: https://mru.ca/71b9 (CityNews – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Also worth noting
UBCO announces new top boss for Okanagan campus: https://mru.ca/3cc5 (Kelowna Capital News)
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MRU Media: 2/18/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
MRU in the News
Brooks: Calgary Film celebrates the Academy Awards at Red Carpet Affair: https://mru.ca/ac28 (Calgary Herald – Tim Rahilly, President)
Canada West Quarter-Finals Preview: https://mru.ca/5b20 (WHL.ca – MRU Cougars hockey, Ryley Lindgren, Connor Rankin, students)
Cougars preview: Hockey squads kick off post-season: https://mru.ca/bf67f (Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun)
Challenger Tour Preview: Home hopes on Canadian soil: https://mru.ca/ef90 (PSA World Tour – Mount Royal University Open squash
Students/experts/alum in the news
CPS #Valencrimes posts draw laughter and criticism: https://mru.ca/dad4 (CTV News – Doug King, faculty)
Wet’suwet’en solidarity gains steam: What’s led to this ‘watershed moment’ in Indigenous resistance: https://mru.ca/cd86 (The Star – Sean Carleton, faculty)
Prime Minister on rail blockades: https://mru.ca/e459 (CTV News Channel – Lori Williams, faculty)
Alberta Prime Time Politics Panel: https://mru.ca/430b (CTV 2, Alberta Prime Time – Lori Williams, faculty)
Calgary store owner says anti-pipeline blockades hurting business: https://mru.ca/7bd36 (Global News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Portland Winterhawks Sweep Kelowna, Sign Prospects: https://mru.ca/dc1 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Keegan Iverson, student)
The life of a voluntary cyborg: https://mru.ca/a47 (University Affairs – Tamara Banbury, alumna)
Randy in the Rings: Sudbury connections key for NWT entry at Scotties: https://mru.ca/b791 (Sutbury Star – Sarah Koltun, alumna)
New ‘vexatious’ rules worry freedom of information advocates that feds can abuse the system: https://mru.ca/b9e4 (Edmonton Journal – Sean Holman, faculty)
Also worth noting
uOttawa students demand better mental health supports following 5th student death in 10 months: https://mru.ca/7f0c (Global News)
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MRU Media: 2/14/2020
This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.
Students/experts/alum in the news
How to protect yourself when planning a funeral: https://mru.ca/f390 (Global News – David Root, faculty)
Wet’suwet’en solidarity protests: How Canadian law protects demonstrators: https://mru.ca/f3db (Global News – Roberta Lexier, faculty)
Competing rights in railway blockades: https://mru.ca/cdea (Newstalk 880 CJAD, Montreal – Roberta Lexier, faculty)
Motion to investigate councillor’s expenses questioned: https://mru.ca/acf2 (CHQR 770 News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Alberta RCMP investigating whether donors to UCP ‘kamikaze’ campaign were defrauded: https://mru.ca/3b9f (Rapida – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Also worth noting
Global News establishes journalism scholarship at MacEwan University; campus TV station unveiled: https://mru.ca/13e4 (Global News)
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