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Province can’t bury bodies: Health Minister
The province doesn’t have the legal authority to bury the human specimens in the Bodies exhibit, Heath Minister Theresa Oswald said Friday, according to the Winnipeg Free Press.
However,...
Decision on copyright fees could take over a year
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It could be over a year until a decision is made on the proposed new tariff from Access Copyright, the collective that licenses copying and course packs for most universities across Canada.
Gilles McDougall,...
Genre-hopping
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One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move in and out of them with each album. In...
Essentially A Playlist
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Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at this time of year, but I was finding far...
Awaiting a Curve ball
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A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative pitched by Curve 94.3 FM.
CHUM Radio had high...
Blinded by City Lights
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Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening title indicates, which, in 1930, makes it even more...
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Underwater cloak renders objects invisible to sonar
“We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking about controlling sound waves by bending and twisting them in a designer space,” said Nicholas Fang, mechanical science...
