Student associations across Canada seek better student health plans
Health care services administered by the province are often unable to meet the all health needs of students, making health plans offered by student unions…
2011
Resource optimization projects set to save millions for the U of M
Resource optimization projects ROSE (Resource Optimization and Service Enhancing) and OARs (Optimizing Academic Resources) are set to save some serious cash for the University of…
New Briefs
Province can’t bury bodies: Health Minister The province doesn’t have the legal authority to bury the human specimens in the Bodies exhibit, Heath Minister Theresa…
Decision on copyright fees could take over a year
It could be over a year until a decision is made on the proposed new tariff from Access Copyright, the collective that licenses copying and…
Genre-hopping
One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move…
Essentially A Playlist
Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at…
Awaiting a Curve ball
A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative…
Blinded by City Lights
Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening…
Science Briefs
Underwater cloak renders objects invisible to sonar “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking about controlling sound waves by bending and twisting…
Tobacco’s renaissance
Although the sphere of political debate is usually filled with passionate disagreement, there are a few subjects most politicians seem to agree on. You know…