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Please refer to http://www.mun.ca/policy/index.php for detailed travel guidelines.

The electronic travel claim form is available in Excel format and can be downloaded  here .

Do not print multiple forms on your laser printer. It is much more cost effective to photocopy additional copies as required.

The form is designed to print on 8 1/2" by 14" paper in the portrait format.

Once you have downloaded the applicable file, refer to Sheet A and Sheet C for further instructions on completing the travel claim form.

If you have any difficulties opening the file, please contact Financial and Administrative Services, at 864-2284 or email [email protected] .  

As of July 2019, to improve the efficiency of travel related payouts and reduce costs, Financial and Administrative Services (FAS) is moving to direct deposit for payment of all travel claims and travel advances issued to Memorial employees. For employees with direct deposit for payroll purposes, the same account will be used for your travel payment. For anyone without a direct deposit account with Memorial, please attach a VOID cheque from your banking institution to your next travel payment claim request, and FAS will make the necessary adjustments on your vendor profile.

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Melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

The melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. The snow covered area is now shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was in the 1980s, according to a new study.

Researchers meticulously tracked snow levels in the nearly 1,500-square mile icy expanse going back to 1948 with added data back to the 18th century. It slowly shriveled from its peak size at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but then that melt rate sped up about 10 years ago, according to a study in Tuesday’s Nature Communications.

“What’s happening is that as the climate is changing, we’re getting shorter winters and longer summers,” study lead author Bethan Davies, a glaciologist at Newcastle University in England. “We’re having more melt, longer melt season.”

It’s melting so fast that the flow of ice into water from now averages about 50,000 gallons every second, according to study co-author Mauri Pelto, a professor of environmental science at Nichols College in Massachusetts.

“In fact, glacier shrinkage in Alaska from the year 2000 to the year 2020, we’re losing more ice in Alaska than anywhere else,” Davies said.

Only four Juneau icefield glaciers melted out of existence between 1948 and 2005. But 64 of them disappeared between 2005 and 2019, the study said. Many of the glaciers were too small to name, but one larger one, Antler glacier, “is totally gone,” Pelto said.

Alaska climatologist Brian Brettschneider, who was not part of the study, said the acceleration is most concerning, warning of “a death spiral” for the thinning icefield.

An icefield is a collection of glaciers, while an ice sheet is something continent-wide and only two of those remain, in Greenland and Antarctica. The most famous glacier in the Juneau icefield is the Mendenhall Glacier, a tourist hotspot. The Arctic is warming about four times faster than the rest of the globe with Alaska warming 2.6 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) since 1980, according to federal weather data.

“When you go there the changes from year-to-year are so dramatic that it just hits you over the head,” Pelto said.

Pelto first went to the Juneau icefield in 1981 to try to make the U.S. ski team and has continued to study it since, giving up competitive skiing for research.

“In 1981, it wasn’t too hard to get on and off the glaciers. You just hike up and you could you could ski to the bottom or hike right off the end of these glaciers,” Pelto said. But now they’ve got lakes on the edges from melted snow and crevasses opening up that makes it difficult to ski, he said.

It’s also now like a staircase of bare rocks there, Pelto said. White snow and ice reflect the sun’s heat, the dark rocks absorb it, making the ground warmer, melting more snow in a feedback effect that amplifies and accelerates the warming-triggered melt, the study said.

Key is the snow elevation line. Below the snow line, snow can disappear in the summer, but there’s snow cover year-round above. That snow line keeps moving upward, Pelto said.

The shape of Juneau’s icefield, which is rather flat, “makes it vulnerable to particular tipping points” because once the snow line moves up, large areas are suddenly more prone to melt, Davies said.

“The tipping point is when that snow line goes above your entire icefield, ice sheet, ice glacier, whichever one,” Pelto said. “And so for the Juneau icefield, 2019, 2018, showed that you are not that far away from that tipping point.”

Even if all the snow in the Juneau icefield would melt, and that’s a long way away, it would not add much to global sea levels, Pelto said. But it is a big tourist destination and cultural hot spot, Davies said.

“It is worrisome because in the future the Arctic is going to be transformed beyond contemporary recognition,” said Julienne Stroeve, a University of Manitoba ice scientist who wasn’t part of the study. “It’s just another sign of a large transformation in all the ice components (permafrost, sea ice, land ice) that communities depend on.”

Davies said the team was able to get such a long-term picture of the icefield’s melting from satellite images, airplane overflights, pictures stored away in drums in a warehouse and historical local measurements, stitching them all together like a giant jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces being nearly all white.

Five different outside experts said the research made sense and fits with other observations. Michael Zemp, head of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, said it shows “that we need urgent and tangible actions to save at least some of the remaining ice.”

“We’re 40 years from when I first saw the glacier. And so, 40 years from now, what is it going to look like?” Pelto said. “I do think by then the Juneau icefield will be past the tipping point.”

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WestJet says there will still be flight disruptions, including cancellations, this week after a deal was reached to end a strike by its mechanics.

The airline issued a news release early Monday EDT saying it is restoring operations in a safe and timely manner, but due to the "significant impact" to its network over the past few days, "returning to business-as-usual flying will take time and further disruptions."

"We are grateful to be recovering our operation; however, we fully recognize the continued impact on our guests and sincerely appreciate their patience and understanding," said airline president Diederik Pen, in another news release Monday afternoon.

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When the tentative agreement was announced in a late-night statement, the airline said it had cancelled around 830 flights scheduled between Thursday and Monday and had pared down its 180-plane fleet to 32 active aircraft.

It said later that an additional 214 flights were being cancelled on Monday on top of 78 that had already been chopped, and 27 flights have been cancelled for Tuesday.

Edmonton resident Dave Simmons has tickets to fly WestJet to Las Vegas with his family on Wednesday morning and is hopeful his flight, which goes through Vancouver, will arrive in time for his kids to make a show by rock band Blink-182 that evening.

He said he checked to see if the same flight took off as scheduled on Monday morning, which it did, giving him reason for optimism.

"I don't know if that's going to change on Wednesday," he said, adding he'd tried booking an alternate flight with Delta on Saturday when the strike was still ongoing, but said part of that journey would have included a WestJet leg.

Some 680 members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, whose daily inspections and repairs are essential to airline operations, had walked off the job on Friday evening despite a directive for binding arbitration from the federal labour minister.

In its own news release, the union urged its members to return to work immediately pending a vote on the agreement.

The challenges WestJet says it now faces include the fact that its planes are parked at 13 airports across Canada, eight of which do not have crew bases, which it says means crew need to be transported to the aircraft for retrieval.

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Those planes that were parked will require standard maintenance and safety checks before returning to service, it says. It also says recovering stranded crew across its network "will be an immediate priority."

The strike disrupted the travel plans of tens of thousands of travellers over the Canada Day long weekend.

"We believe this outcome would not have been possible without the strike, but we do regret the disruption and inconvenience it has caused the traveling public over the Canada Day holiday period," the union's statement said.

"The timing was coincidental as the negotiation process did not follow a predictable timeline."

Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan had mandated late last week as Friday's strike deadline loomed that both sides undertake binding arbitration headed by the country's labour tribunal.

The union's negotiating committee had said that it would "comply with the minister's order" and that it was directing its members to "refrain from any unlawful job action," but less than 24 hours later, workers were on the picket lines.

A decision from the Canada Industrial Relations Board seemed to affirm the legality of their actions regardless of protocols around arbitration.

The union said the tentative five-year deal includes immediate pay increases, full restoration of the WestJet Savings Plan and improved benefits. It said if members ratify it, the compulsory arbitration ordered by the labour minister won't be necessary.

Both WestJet and the union had accused the other side of refusing to negotiate in good faith.

Pen had stressed what he called the "continued reckless actions" of a union making "blatant efforts" to disrupt Canadians' travel plans, while the association claimed in an update to members Sunday that mechanics were "the victim of WestJet's virulent PR campaign that you are scofflaws."

This is the second tentative agreement in the dispute.

Union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a tentative deal from WestJet in mid-June and following two weeks of tense talks between the two parties.

Before the latest deal was reached overnight, WestJet said it had offered a 12.5 per cent wage hike in the first year of the contract, and a compounded wage increase of 23 per cent over the rest of the five-and-a-half-year term.

The union had said its demands around wages would cost WestJet less than $8 million beyond what the company offered for the first year of the collective agreement -- the first contract between the two sides. It has acknowledged the gains would surpass compensation for industry colleagues across Canada and sit more on par with U.S. counterparts.

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The biggest event was the Pride parade in Winnipeg, which saw over 6,000 people march through the city’s downtown.

“We had a record number of people at the parade. We had a record number of people at the festival site,” said Pride Winnipeg president Barry Karlenzig. “We did hit the same numbers as last year, which makes us very proud and very happy.”

But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows – severe weather forced the festivities to shut down three hours early, and a blockade of protesters put the biggest-ever Pride parade on hold.

A news release from the protesting group handed out during the blockade said they were demanding that Pride Winnipeg end its “complicity with genocide, divest from corporate pinkwashing, remove police from Pride, and centre QTBIPOC leadership.”

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“We do recognize as an organization, we are not perfect,” Karlenzig said.

Since the blockade, Karlenzig confirmed Pride Winnipeg met with the protesters and had “meaningful dialogue.”

The organization has also announced plans to begin consultations with community members and Pride participants to see how it can improve.

“We were eventually going to launch them in September,” Karlenzig said. “Now, just with the way our grant programs have worked, we were able to get grant funding a little bit earlier, so we're going to be launching them…over the summer.”

While Pride month may be over, Karlenzig emphasized that 2SLGBTQ+ events still happen year-round, province-wide.

“We do have the Pride Winnipeg app that is not just for Pride weekend,” he said. “If anybody's sitting there on a Friday night saying, ‘Hey, what's there to go to in the city on a Friday night,’ they can load the Pride Winnipeg app, and it shows everything.”

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Manitoba premier polling high after nine months, but experts say challenges lie ahead

By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press

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WINNIPEG — Nine months after being elected, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew continues to enjoy a honeymoon with voters.

His NDP government has enacted many promises the party made during last year’s election campaign, and opposition parties are working to rebuild after losing leaders and legislature seats.

But challenges lie ahead, experts say, as the government tries to enact other pledges — such as keeping grocery prices affordable — and follow through on a fiscal plan that could require tight restraint.

“The government has been working to fulfil commitments it made during the election, (but) I would say affordability is something that in many ways is beyond the control of the provincial government,” said Christopher Adams, adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

Recent opinion polls suggest NDP support has grown since the party took 34 of the 57 legislature seats in the Oct. 3 election.

The party also added a seat last month when it won a byelection in the Tuxedo constituency — a high-income part of Winnipeg that had been a Progressive Conservative stronghold since its creation in 1979.

Kinew followed through on a promise to support a landfill search for the remains of two slain First Nations women. He also temporarily suspended the provincial fuel tax and boosted funding for school nutrition programs.

But other campaign promises are less certain, including a one-year freeze on hydroelectric rates that has been pushed back and with no firm start time.

A promise to keep grocery prices down has also raised questions.

In December, Kinew threatened action against grocery outlets if they did not pass along savings from his suspension of the fuel tax. Recent data from Statistics Canada says that not only are food prices continuing to rise, the inflation rate for food purchased in stores in Manitoba is running higher than the national average.

The Opposition Progressive Conservatives have accused the government of breaking their promise and having no real plan to keep food prices down.

Finance Minister Adrien Sala said the government is satisfied that grocery inflation in Manitoba, measured in the months since January, has been running lower than the other Western provinces.

“We’re just watching this very carefully and, of course, we’re seeing our action having the positive impact we hoped it would,” Sala said.

The Retail Council of Canada has said fuel prices have a minimal impact on grocery costs.

Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba, said a province’s ability to control prices, aside from direct tax cuts such as the fuel levy, is limited.

“Symbolic statements and actions can earn the government some temporary reprieve from public frustration (and) anger, but that will not endure if inflation persists,” he said.

Another challenge facing the government is its recently announced overhaul of education taxes on property.

A new credit system, to take effect next year, is to reap an estimated $148 million more from property owners. Owners of lower-value homes are to pay less, but many of those with middle- and high-value homes will pay more. Owners of commercial and residential rental properties would also pay more.

“You wonder if maybe that byelection in Tuxedo might have worked out a little bit differently if that byelection were held 18 months from now,” Adams said.

The government’s promise to balance the budget before the next election in 2027 may prove to be a challenge as well.

Manitoba has run deficits in every year but two since 2009, and the NDP’s plan to return to balance requires annual spending growth below 2.5 per cent. The NDP criticized spending restraint under the former Progressive Conservative government as “austerity” and promised to pump money into health care and front-line services, with raises for public-sector workers.

Health care will also be a key factor in deciding whether public support for the NDP will continue, Adams said. The government has moved to fund more health-care workers and has plans to expand emergency services, but time will tell if patients will see a difference, he said.

“You go to the Health Sciences Centre’s emergency wards, you’re still waiting many, many hours to be seen. So the corrections of the health care system — that’s a long game.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2024.

Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press

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Host students from the Universidad Anahuac Veracruz (UAV) and UNMC students: back row left to right, Paulina, UAV; Alexa, UAV: Abby Johnson, UNMC: Isabella Almanza, UNMC; Fernanda, UAV: Mara, UAV; and Paulina, UAV. Front row left to right, Emma Plucknett, UNMC; Haley Basset, UNMC; Cathy, UAV; Neleigh Perkins, UNMC; Camila, UAV; Jocelyn Cheek, UNMC; and Mitsy Das, UNMC. Not pictured is Sofia Kuenzi, UNMC.

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• LIMINAL SPACE THERAPY, 204-799-3806 or 204-290-5165 (5 PM-7 PM weekdays, anytime on weekends)
• SARA Riel Inc. SENECA SERVICES, 24-hour peer support line 204-231-0217 or 204-942-9276
• KIDS HELP PHONE 24/7 Text Connect to 686868 to connect to a Crisis Responder or Call 1-800-668-6868
• Klnic Crisis Line 24/7 Call 204-786-8686 or toll free 1-888-322-3019
• Student Counselling Centre to book an intake appointment call 204-474-8592

*For tips on staying well during COVID-19 you can access information at the student counselling center here .

Housing, food and daily life supports

• WINNIPEG HARVEST FOOD BANK call the emergency food line at 204-982-3660 or visit their website for more information here .
• AGAPE TABLE provides $1 or free breakfast and has a foodbank. Monday to Friday from 8:00 am – 10:30 am. Located at 364 Furby Street. Contact at 204-786-2370 or find more information here .
• OAK TABLE provides free lunch service Mon- Thur between 11 am – 3 pm. Located at 109 Pulford Street. Find more information here .
• HELP NEXT DOOR is a Winnipeg organization made up of local volunteers. You can seek help or volunteer. Find information and apply here .
• Call McGregor location at 204-925-0330/204-925-6816 or Spence location at 204-925-0352/204-925-0348
• YOUR CELL PHONE AND COVID 19 for information on what various phone companies may be offering during this time click here .
• COMPUTERS FOR KIDS is providing free access to computers for families who do not have them. For more information check here .
• STUDIO CENTRAL – URBAN ARTS CENTRE supports mental health in the community through art. See their Facebook page for daily videos on various art lessons and activities. 
• ACTIVE LIVING CENTRE is providing online workout videos for while you are at home. To access subscribe to UofMRecServices on youtube.com .
• CareMongering-Winnipeg Community Response to COVID 19 is a Facebook group that provides daily information on local resources. It is a public group and anyone can join.

Financial supports

*all three listed below are available for both international students, Permanent Residents and Canadian citizens

• USMU HEALTH AND DENTAL PLAN provides coverage for 80% of all prescribed medications up to $10,000.00 or covers the MB Pharmacare deductible. Find information here .
• Individuals are encouraged to ask banks, and other financial institutions for deferred payment plans at this time. 
• Apply online now here .
• Download forms and get program information here . 
• Call 204-948-2888 or 1-855-944-8111 (toll free outside Winnipeg) to register or you can email here .
• Non-EIA Rent Assist contacts are 1-204-948-7369 or 1-877-587-6224 (toll free) or email here .
• Find program information here.
• Download Non-EIA Rent Assist Application Form here and Direct Deposit Form here .
• Pharmacare –for information on how to apply for this during the pandemic get info here .
• Contact at 1-204-949-2106

FEDERAL – CANADA’s COVID 19 Economic Response Plan

• Find more information here.
• Find Fact sheet for CERB at here.  

Covid-19 Vaccine Resources

Vaccine Consent Form

Immunosuppressed and Autoimmune Vaccine Factsheet

mRNA Vaccine Factsheet

Vaccine Reaction Factsheet

Information for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Individuals

After you had the vaccine

Our doctors, nurses and support staff provide a range of medical services including

• treatment of chronic and short-term health concerns,
• regular check-ups,
• pregnancy care,
• travel health counselling and immunizations,
• diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns and
• health promotion programming.

University Health Service 100 UMSU University Centre 65 Chancellors Circle University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

University Health Service - Bannatyne campus P309 - Pathology Building 770 Bannatyne Ave. Bannatyne campus

After hours

A physician is available after hours only to patients registered with University Health Service . For emergencies after hours and on weekends call  204-474-8411 . The doctor you speak to will be a physician from the University Health Service.

How to make an appointment

To book an appointment, phone us at 204-474-8411 or visit our reception desk in person at 100 UMSU University Centre. Please let us know whether you would like a short appointment, for a single medical concern, or a longer appointment, for a general physical examination or counselling session. Typical office visits are scheduled for 15 minutes and complete physicals are 30 minutes.

If you are a student from Bannatyne campus, please inform us when making your appointment. We have set aside specific appointment times at the beginning and the end of each day for students not based on the Fort Garry campus.

We believe that you will receive the best care if you maintain contact with one primary physician. Please try to call in advance to book an appointment with your doctor. Travel health counselling and immunizations are available at a charge. Please fill out a travel information form available at the front desk and drop it off two weeks prior to your appointment.

Same day appointments

Depending on our doctors' availability, we reserve a limited number of appointments for same-day bookings. If you are sick and want to see a doctor right away, please book an appointment by phoning our office when the clinic opens at 8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday. Same-day appointments are filled on a “first come, first serve” basis, and no more appointments will be available once each day’s appointments are booked.

Cancellations and missed appointments

If you must cancel or are running late for your appointment please call us at 204-474-8411 .

If you miss an appointment or arrive more than half way through your scheduled appointment time, you will be charged $50 for an office visit or $100 for a longer appointment. These are the recommended fees approved by Doctors Manitoba. We have reserved a specific amount of time for your appointment, so if you are late, the doctor will not have enough time to provide the best care possible.

Test Results

We will contact you if your test results are abnormal or concerning. If we have not contacted you, it usually means that your results were normal. However, if we have not contacted you and you would like your results, please contact us at 204-474-8411 to speak to a nurse or to book a follow up appointment with your physician.  

Fees and insurance

UHS provides a number of medical and administrative services which are not covered by Manitoba Health or other provincial or independent medical insurance plans. These services will be billed directly to the patient as follows:

Please feel free to discuss these charges with your health care provider or other University Health Service staff member.

We accept payment in the form of cash only.

Clinical service fees for uninsured patients

If you are not covered by Manitoba Health, the Manitoba International Student Health Plan or another insurance provider, the following fees apply.

Service fees in accordance with the Doctor's Manitoba approved uninsured services manual.