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Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest with a mobile confessional, prepared to hear people's stories.

Neil Weisensel, CMU Associate Professor of Music and composer of the comic opera City Workers in Love.

CMU composer gives new life to opera City Workers in Love

Posted in News Releases | Thursday, September 17, 2026 @ 6:12 PM

Construction workers singing opera? It's a combination likely to elicit a double take, but it's at the heart of the 1992 comic opera City Workers in Love.

Composed by CMU Associate Professor of Music Neil Weisensel with a libretto by the late Michael Cavanagh, the one-act comic opera tells the story of a street repair crew and their pursuits of love and public service during a typical day.

Dr. Roberta Bondar speaks about the connections between science, art, and the natural world during CMU’s Face2Face event on September 11.

Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, brings a view from space down to Earth at CMU

Posted in News Releases | Thursday, September 17, 2026 @ 4:00 PM

Seeing Earth from space changed the way Dr. Roberta Bondar understood the natural world.

Canada's first female astronaut shared that perspective at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) on September 11, when she spoke at a Face2Face event exploring the intersections of science, art, and the environment.

Ikeoluwapo Baruwa, Assistant Professor of Education, brings teaching and research experience from Nigeria and Canada to CMU’s new Bachelor of Education program.

New Assistant Professor of Education helps shape first Education cohort

Posted in News Releases | Wednesday, September 16, 2026 @ 9:28 AM

As CMU welcomes the first students into its Bachelor of Education (BEd) program this fall, a new faculty member is helping shape what the program—and the educators who emerge from it—will become.

Ikeoluwapo Baruwa, Assistant Professor of Education, joined CMU in June, bringing teaching and research experience from both Nigeria and Canada.

CMU students Cassidy Froese (left) and Alyssa Doneza put their classroom learning into practice through work-integrated learning placements with Trans Manitoba and Peg City Basketball, respectively.

CMU students put learning to work

Posted in Stories | Monday, September 14, 2026 @ 2:31 PM

For Cassidy Froese, a summer work-integrated learning placement brought social science and communications together in ways she had not expected. For Alyssa Doneza, it revealed just how much running a basketball organization depends on relationships.

Their experiences are two examples of how Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) students are taking classroom learning into workplaces through work-integrated learning (WIL) placements.

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