Manitoba Council on International Cooperation

Press Releases

  • Students “Go Fair Trade”

    Released on January 17th 2012

    As last year’s WE Day Event in Winnipeg demonstrates, students in Manitoba are increasingly taking action as global citizens, and getting involved with international development issues, such as Fair Trade. The Manitoba Council for International Cooperation is bringing its annual Generating Momentum for Our World: Go Fair Trade Middle Years Conference to Winnipeg on Wednesday, January 18, with a second date on January 19, added due to high demand. Sixty-four students from ten schools in the Hanover, Louis Riel, Pembina Trails, Seine River, St James and Winnipeg 1 school divisions will be getting together at the Glenwood Community Centre to learn about the benefits of Fair Trade for the producers in our world. (read more)

  • Students “Go Fair Trade”

    Released on November 27th 2011

    As last week’s WE Day Event in Winnipeg demonstrates, students in Manitoba are increasingly taking action as global citizens, and getting involved with international development issues, such as Fair Trade. The Manitoba Council for International Cooperation is bringing its annual Generating Momentum for Our World: Go Fair Trade Middle Years Conference to Morden on Wednesday, November 30. Forty-four students from six schools in the Prairie Rose, Hanover, Borderland, Prairie Spirit, Garden Valley and Western school divisions will be getting together at the Morden Community Centre to learn about the benefits of Fair Trade for the producers in our world. (read more)

  • Students Make Their Voice Heard

    Released on November 8th 2011

    The Interlake School Division, in collaboration with the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, is hosting the Generating Momentum for Our World: Student Voice Workshop in Stonewall on Wednesday, November 9. Seventy-one students from Warren Collegiate, Stonewall Collegiate and Teulon Collegiate will be getting together at the Oak Hammock Marsh Centre to learn how they can make their schools and communities more inclusive though active citizenship. (read more)

  • Eastman Students “Go Fair Trade”

    Released on October 31st 2011

    As more Fair Trade products are available throughout the province, the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation is kicking off its annual Generating Momentum for Our World: Go Fair Trade Middle Years Conference in Beausejour on Wednesday, November 2. Sixty-one students from ten schools in the Hanover, Seine River, Sunrise and Whiteshell school divisions will be getting together at the Sun Gro Centre to learn about the benefits of Fair Trade for the producers in our world. (read more)

  • Film Festival Hopes for a Just World

    Released on October 28th 2011

    Winnipeg’s annual Global Justice Film Festival returns for its ninth year, bringing films and documentaries, all focused on the theme of Hope For a Just World, to Manitoban audiences.

    This year’s program kicks off on Friday, November 4 at 7:00pm at the Winnipeg Art Gallery with Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, a profound and unforgettable documentary which premiered at Toronto’s imagineNATIVE Film Festival in October 2010. Dr. Ian Mauro, one of the directors and a former Manitoban, will join the audience after the showing via Skype for a Question and Answer session. Saturday, November 5, starting at 9:00am, more Canadian and international films will be shown at the University of Winnipeg. (read more)