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Aboriginal communities in northern Manitoba have been given $743,000 for the construction of daycare facilities, said a government press release. According to information provided to the Manitoban by a government spokesperson, the government is aware...

Allow me to commence this “comment” with characteristic self-absorption. Perhaps this is self-evident, but I am a man of eminence, of success. Indeed, my appetite for achievement is surpassed only by my appetite for...

It was mid-September. I had just set off from my house that morning on foot, living only a couple of blocks away from my practicum school. I was dressed in my best teacher clothes,...

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” Chicken Little’s famous saying, in my opinion, is the message I receive every day when I watch the news, read the paper or listen to the radio....

In Winnipeg’s downtown core the poor, sick and homeless are selling their prescription medications to pay for the necessities of life. A CBC investigation reports the trade in meds has flourished in the area...

Humans respond to incentive. When fuel prices go up, more people park their cars and take the bus. If the cost of honey goes down, cereal manufacturers use it to sweeten their products because...

It was supposed to be easy, a few googles, maybe a peer reviewed paper or two, and I would be able to answer the “Ask a Scientist” question “what is a Higgs boson?” Unfortunately...