Hey y’all, happy new student orientation! Come hang out with us in the hall in Fletcher Argue near the Dafoe Library. If you can pop a balloon without our president Mark noticing, he’ll pay you $5. He actually won’t but could you imagine?

Cause we all need a little help sometimes. 📚

Rebecca from career services is here to talk about what we can do with an economics degree.

“I got into studying economics as a way to criticize mainstream economics.” - Robert Chernomas

Greg Mason, Associate Professor of Economics, dissects the many #elxn43 promises from an economic perspective (spoiler: disappointing 😉) AND reveals how he voted via The Conversation Canada theconversation.com/the-economic-i… #umanitoba #umresearch umeconsoc

Today’s featured Winter 2020 course is Economics of the Household (ECON 4490) from Economics. Many of the major decisions in our lives are not individual decisions but instead made at the family or household level. See all available Arts courses on Aurora. #UManitoba #StartAtArts

The UM Econ Society presents Discover Banking featuring Gary Bernard. Our friend Gary is a U of M Econ alum and the Head of Commercial and Corporate banking at HSBC. Come join Gary (and the rest of us) in 306 Tier today at 12:45 (PM you guys, Gary’s not that wild...).

The University of Manitoba is deeply saddened by the tragic news coming out of Tehran. It is our understanding that there were UM students and an alumna on board the flight.

A support meeting will be held at 1:30 on the Bannatyne campus, Room 477 Apotex Centre to discuss the tragic airline crash on that claimed the lives of 176 people including Dr. Forough Khadem, a Dept of Immunology @ UofM grad. U of M Rady Faculty U of M Grad Studies UM Student uManitoba Research Mitacs

We want to express our deepest condolences to everyone affected by the loss felt in the wake of the crash of flight PS752 near Tehran. Words cannot express the sorrow we feel. A vigil to honour the victims will be held on Friday, Jan. 10th at 4:00 – 5:30 p.m in the EITC Atrium.💔