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The worship of Santa Muerte
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Over the last decade, one saint in Mexico has attracted 2 million followers: Saint Death. Known as Santa or Santisima Muerte, this figure has become an issue for the government and Catholic Church of...
And another one
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On Feb. 27, Chile experienced an earthquake that ranks in the top five strongest earthquakes ever recorded. This tragedy comes on the heels of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, but, fortunately, Chile was much...
Letters to the Editor – March 10, 2010
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RE: Liberals want abortion and contraceptives included in G8 health initiative
The exclusion of contraception and abortion in an initiative aimed at improving women and children’s health is tragically ironic. This motion is a...
2010 UMSU general election results
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Unofficial, partial results:
2374 ballots were cast — just over 10 per cent of eligible voters at U of M
309 were international students
1586 identified as women
1522 identified as Aboriginal
1422 identified as LGBTT*
1527 identified as students...
UMSU elections Facebook-free
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This year, the supplementary rules for the upcoming University of Manitoba Students Union (UMSU) election campaigns bans candidates from using Facebook.com to gain support for their campaigns.
After the supplementary rules were brought to UMSU...
The 2010 Winter Olympics: for better, or for worse embodying the...
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The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games were not yet a week old before the international media unleashed their hounds. The games and their organizing committee, VANOC, garnered plenty of bad ink in those initial hours...
Grrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls
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“Riotgrrrl is because we are angry at a society that tells us Girls = dumb, Girl = bad, Girl = weak,” wrote Kathleen Hanna in 1991, as part of The Riot Grrrl Manifesto....
