Katz, Wasylycia-Leis at odds on rapid transit
While Mayor Sam Katz continues to pledge light rail transit to the city of Winnipeg if re-elected, entrant Judy Wasylycia-Leis promises to complete Phase Two…
September 2010
Degrees renovations fall behind
Students will have to wait a bit longer to get their green curry and yam fries as renovations to Degrees face unexpected complications. University of…
Coffee music: The guide
There was a time when even Starbucks, now fast becoming the exclusive domain of sugar-crazed teenagers, was filled with safe but tasteful music. When I…
More than the sum of its parts
Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg is well known . . . for all the wrong reasons. The Graffiti Gallery, nestled between Waterfront Drive and Gomez Street,…
A record of how I felt then
Middle-class suburbia is not the stuff of legend. As far as its depiction in art is concerned, it is stucco sprawl, vapid and neatly fenced,…
Campus Spotlight: Ignatius Mabasa
A writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe, Ignatius Mabasa has just arrived to the U of M’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) as…
And the Polaris Music Prize goes to…
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Zoological investigations double back-to-school feature
The double-crested cormorant The double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus, is a large, fish-eating waterfowl between 70 to 90 cm long with a wingspan of almost 1.22…
Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
The Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (PWRC) is a local non-profit organization whose purpose is to treat injured, orphaned, or abandoned wildlife and to release them…
Let the man take ‘the pill’
Fifty years after “the pill” became available for women, the male birth control pill is approaching its final stages of development. This new method of…