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Biggest show in the West
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From Feb. 25-26, the Max Bell Fieldhouse played host to the Canada West track and field championships, as 256 of the top track and field athletes in Western Canada converged on the University of...
Go Jets go
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Since 1996, the year Winnipeg lost its beloved professional hockey team, the most popular and polarizing topic of sports bar conversation has been: “Will the NHL ever return to Winnipeg?”
There are two types of...
Bison briefs
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Basketball
After securing their first playoff berth since the 2003-04 season on the strength of a 9-15 conference record, Manitoba was swept in the first round of the Canada West playoffs by the top seeded...
Political prisoner or thief?
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On Dec. 27, 2010, Russian business oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, were charged with embezzlement and money laundering from Yukos Oil and were sentenced to seven years in a Siberian...
Won’t somebody think of the children?
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People are up in arms about a little known hallucinogenic herb called salvia divinorum. Local MP Shelly Glover recently made the announcement that the federal government will soon be listing salvia under the Controlled...
Give Grandma a break!
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Kyle Mirecki's article "Here Comes the Boom!" (Feb. 16, 2011) argued that "with a growing number of seniors, a small birth rate, and with senior public expenditures costing 2.5 times more than youth expenditures,...
Letters to the Editor – March 2, 2011
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RE: “Here comes the boom!” (Feb. 16, 2011)
Kyle Mirecki wrote the article suggesting that more resources should be put towards the baby boomers (old age homes, healthcare, etc.) rather than a national child care...
