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limb from limb in abortion,” he said. He said that CCBR comes to university campuses because at universities there are “many young people who are open to the pro-life perspective.”
he Canadian Federation of Students, an organization that works to represent post-secondary students across Canada, has filed a lawsuit against the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU). The federation — established in 1981 and composed of more than 65 student unions across Canada — alleges that while UMSU remains a voting member of the organization, it has not paid over $1 million in membership dues that have been owed since 2018. The two student groups have had a rocky relationship since 2013 when UMSU, a member of the federation since 2001, held an ad hoc committee to determine if the union’s membership was worthwhile for the students. UMSU has a history of withholding membership fees from the Canadian Federation of Students, owing the federation up to $650,000 in dues in 2015. This resulted in the payment of more than $990,000 in 2016, which settled a dispute that lasted more than three years. In 2018, UMSU held a non-binding plebiscite that asked the student body if the union should remain a member of the federation, at a cost of $14.98 per student each academic year. The result was a resounding yes, with more than 64 per cent of votes cast in favour of membership. Despite this, the UMSU board and executive have remained vocal about their recommendation to leave the federation, voting internally two years ago to end membership. The 2021-22 UMSU president Brendan Scott cited the internal vote in a February 2022 interview with the Manitoban when he claimed that “according to our board, we are no longer members of [the Canadian Federation of Students], so the need to pay fees is unnecessary.”
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he anti-abortion group Canadian Centre for BioEthical Reform (CCBR) held rallies at the U of M campus last Thursday and Friday. The group, which displays graphic images of
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aborted fetuses as a part of their protests, was met with a counter-protest organized by the UMSU Women’s Centre and Justice for Women Manitoba. Kyle Coffey, the Manitoba outreach director for CCBR, called abortion “a human
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rights violation,” and argued that it shouldn’t be allowed “in a just society.” “These images show the reality of what abortion does, so that we can ground the conversation in the fact that abortion has a real victim, a tiny human being who is ripped
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