Following the herd
With each Bison team taking a month off for the winter break, the Manitoban decided it was an ideal time to see how each team…
2014
Grabbing momentum
The final weekend before the winter break was a successful one for the University of Manitoba Bisons basketball program, as the men took both games…
Lord of the crease: the two towers
With the clock ticking down on the first half of the regular season, the University of Manitoba Bisons welcomed the Alberta Pandas to town. Heading…
Jets fly by
The Winnipeg Jets have some serious momentum heading into the third month of the 2014-15 NHL campaign. Though they’re slightly sluggish on the offensive side,…
Hard work on the hard court
AJ Basi has always had a love for the game of basketball. Born in Toronto, Basi grew up watching both his older brother and the…
Manitoba throne speech prioritizes online education
At last month’s throne speech the provincial NDP announced a number of policies to be implemented in the coming year. While interest-free student loans have…
Sexual assault maps
Last week, two posters featuring hashtags such as #BeenRapedNeverReported along with maps—one of the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus and the other of the…
UMSU neutrality sparks student criticism
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union has said that it will not condemn impending budget cuts at the University of Manitoba, sparking criticism from students…
Fractal butterflies
Tapash Chakraborty is a Tier-I Canada research chair in nanoscale physics, and a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Manitoba. His students are…
Isaac Newton’s genius still meaningful today
Isaac Newton’s fundamental work on motion and gravity may have been challenged by Einstein’s theories in the early 20th century; but the ideas and mathematical…