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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) helped to ease the late-January monotony last week with guest speakers, events at the Hub, and free breakfasts. All of this was part of the annual Celebration Week,...

University of Manitoba senate meeting The U of M senate will meet for the second time in 2014 on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Scheduled for that meeting are tributes to three recently deceased U of M...

A diverse group of cheery faces and eager entrepreneurs gathered in the basement of Knox United Church last Friday for the grand opening of Knox Community Kitchen. The kitchen, completed in July of 2013, was...

Winnipeg is hosting the second International Winter Cycling Congress (IWCC) from Feb. 12-14. The three-day congress will showcase winter cycling techniques, host numerous community, cultural, and educational events, and provide a forum for planners and...

Last week the Campus Food Strategy Group (CFSG) held an information session to educate students about sustainability initiatives being undertaken concerning the food system at the University of Manitoba. The group is developing a Campus...

Last month, the management of Canada Post announced sweeping changes that would drastically alter the public crown corporation’s delivery of services. A five-point plan was put forward that would see, in the next few years,...

Another chapter in the Canadian debate over physician-assisted suicide has begun in Ottawa, where the Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal in the case of two British Columbian women, Kay Carter and...