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Despite its wintry reputation, Â鶹´«Ã½ has been consistently ranked by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top 5 most liveable cities and is considered by many residents to be “Canada’s best-kept secret”. Our mid-sized city boasts incredible cultural diversity with an outstanding music, arts and food scene, many winter and summer festivals, and an affordable cost of living. The University of Â鶹´«Ã½ is a small university in the heart of downtown and the Department of Biology is situated in a cutting-edge new science facility, the Richardson College for the Environment. Bioscience in Â鶹´«Ã½ and throughout Manitoba is also an exciting, large and rapidly growing sector with great opportunities for collaboration with University of Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers and graduate students.
Manitoba is privileged with abundant natural resources and great ecological diversity from the grasslands of the great plains to boreal forest on the Canadian Shield, to Arctic Tundra in the north. It is home to three of the world's largest lakes, and the wetlands of the Red River delta are among the most productive in the world. Manitoba is on a major flyway for migratory birds and bats and is home to abundant fish and wildlife populations. The province is lightly populated with incredible opportunities for outdoor recreation and ecological/environmental research. At 647,000 square kilometers, Manitoba is nearly three times as large as Germany, but with only 1/70th of the population. For those interested in ecology, conservation biology, natural resource management and the environmental sciences, Manitoba offers incredible opportunities.