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The 30th annual Political Studies Students’ Conference (PSSC) was held last week at the University of Manitoba. The subject of this year’s conference was Canada and the Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities. A wide range of...

                                                                                                             

Seemingly everyone has a smartphone these days. According to surveys from 2013, almost half of all Canadians and more than half of all Americans use the high-powered mobile devices. Until recently, I was one...

What is “new music?” In 23-years of attempting to answer that impossible question, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s (WSO) annual New Music Festival (NMF) has explored the peripheries of contemporary music, purposefully blurring the lines that...

That unmistakably thick, heady fog of impractical resolutions and implacably glass-half-full attitudes permeates the air: it’s the New Year. I know I’m never more purposeful than I am in January. One year ends, another begins....

Automation allows humans to delegate tedious tasks to machinery. Tedium can, however, distract the human operator, causing disaster.