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Last year saw the release of two high-profile films about famous scientists: The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the ill-fated computer scientist Alan Turing, and The Theory of Everything, with Eddie Redmayne as...

I would like to respond to an article in the Jan. 21, 2015 edition of the Manitoban titled "UMGSA confusion" by Ethan Cabel. The main points of this article revolve around excerpts taken from...

It is worth appreciating the immense outcry that has flooded the pages of broadsheets in the days following the senseless slaughter of satirists. A series of appraisals, explanations, and condemnations are in wide selection,...

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, a number of political tropes have renewed their currency. There has been an awful lot of talk about freedom of speech and the freedom to offend....

When I heard about the attacks in Paris last week, I was shocked and horrified. I sunk into my seat in grief as a CBC news reporter explained that 10 journalists from Charlie Hebdo...

We've all heard some variation of it by now: "Of course I believe in freedom of speech, but..." In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the conversation which has ensued, we should...

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