Bisons score high marks in the classroom
Bison Sports have set a new standard for the University of Manitoba, as 102 student-athletes achieved CIS Academic All-Canadian status for the 2010-11 season. Out…
2012
Barack did not rock this debate
Warning: I will try to be completely unbiased in this analysis and base my arguments on the facts of the debate, not on the fact…
A clear consensus: Romney wins first debate
Last Wednesday, I sat down with the Manitoban’s managing editor Chuthan Ponnampalam and sports editor Marc Lagace to watch the first U.S. Presidential Debate of…
A four-point plan for democratic reform
How to make Canadian politics less insufferable
The curious case of Omar Khadr
No easy answers
Science briefs: The fear factor and chocolate abuse
Study shows fear can be erased from brain A new study from Uppsala University in Sweden has shined light on the emotions involved with fear…
Not your father’s Oldsmobile: The present, past, and future of self-driving cars
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the state of California signed a bill into law that will allow self-driving cars on California roadways. It sounds like science…
The good and the bad: A profile of Canadian non-profit Bad Science Watch
I care about science. I am fascinated by its attempt to systematically weigh evidence and weed out bias, ever striving to reach successively closer approximations…
No pucks given: the real victims of the NHL lockout
Tune in to any sports radio or TV station on the Canadian airwaves these days and you’re bound to hear the latest on the status…
Queer Perspectives
Lisa Wood has just completed a yearlong project in partnership with the Rainbow Resource Centre, as part of the WITH ART Community Program put together…