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Today’s must-read
Manitoba universities and colleges are receiving fewer applications from overseas owing to the “chill” of a new cap on international students that has already taken a toll on bottom lines and affected tuition rates.
The University of Manitoba is grappling with a 30 per cent decrease in new international enrolment and has yet to assign every seat it was allotted as part of a federal initiative to alleviate pressures on housing stock and health care.
Senior administrators had only anticipated and budgeted for a 20 per cent drop across U of M campuses. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
The University of Manitoba administration building (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Female entrepreneurs and executives from across Winnipeg are finding a new home at Knew House. The company offers members the chance to connect with a group of five to seven like-minded women for feedback, support and encouragement.
Leilah Perchaluk was running Well Life, an insurance company, when she started Knew House. “In the communities I was in, I wasn’t really having the kinds of conversations that I needed to have to get to that next level in my business,” said Perchaluk, 27. Aaron Epp has more here.
Leilah Perchaluk, founder of Knew House (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 17, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Duck Lake, Man., a fire in a log cabin home killed three children while their mother walked several hundred yards to the shores of Lake Winnipegosis to get water to wash the breakfast dishes. In Winnipeg, Frankie Fabbri, recently arrived from Italy, was shaving customers in his father John Fabbri’s barbershop; Frankie already had four years’ experience as a professional barber, but needed to learn English to become accredited in Canada. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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