The Cordoba House clash
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In the immediate wake of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, as black smoke still consumed and choked the skies above Manhattan Island, Rudolph Giuliani, then-mayor of New York, issued...
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Medical school at U of M under review
Citing the existence of unresolved and unspecified serious weaknesses, an external review will be conducted of five of the University of Manitoba’s medical residency programs by...
The 2010 Winter Olympics: for better, or for worse embodying the...
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The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games were not yet a week old before the international media unleashed their hounds. The games and their organizing committee, VANOC, garnered plenty of bad ink in those initial hours...
Tweets are Sweet
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If you need any indication of Twitter.com’s booming popularity, look no further than Nick Douglas’s recent publication, Twitter Wit, which describes itself as “an authorized collection of the funniest tweets of all time.” Now,...
The new validity of social media
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Sometimes, when the rate of social change is so rapid and its effects so broad and widespread, all points along the time continuum become murky and unrecognizable. As is almost always the case, the...
The Super Bowl spectacle: a fan’s perspective
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Super Bowl Sunday is the culmination and the highlight of my annual sporting calendar. This year it will definitely face stiff competition from the World Cup and Olympic hockey, but there just isn’t...
Cold is Cool, Man.
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There is undoubtedly a perception — or more accurately, a stereotype — throughout much of the world that Canada is a frigid, barren wasteland, wholly uninviting and nearly inhospitable during the long winter months....
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