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Eradication victory
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As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as recently as 2009, when its 741 cases accounted for...
March of the supersoldiers
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Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants,” a study out of McGill University published Jan. 6 in Science, shines light on a different class of ant: the supersoldier. The study was able to...
The big cheese
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It is evident when cheese goes bad. A foul-smelling odour paired with the presence of uniquely coloured moulds and fungi renders this once pleasurable food item uneatable. As much as your roommate may protest,...
Public land is ours
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This fall the City of Winnipeg all too quietly offered an expression of interest for the sale and development, both commercial and residential, of seven public golf courses, including: Windsor Park, Crescent Drive, the...
The ‘free rider’ and effective representation
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Spencer Fernando’s comments in the Jan. 4, 2012 issue of the Manitoban’s “UMSU membership should be voluntary,” about what is sometimes called Voluntary Student Unionism (or VSU), clearly deserve a response. In a way,...
Social media and technology
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The argument can be made that since UMSU does not provide core university services, we as students should have the right to choose whether or not we want to be members. In fact, Spencer...
CWB versus Canada
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On Jan. 18 Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shane Perlmutter reserved his decision on whether to grant eight former directors of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) an injunction against the further implementation of Bill...
