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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...

The first Visionary Conversations talk of 2014 was held at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus last week. This time, an interdisciplinary panel of current and former faculty discussed the impending problem of...

This past Thursday, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC), a Canadian think tank, hosted a panel discussion at the University of Manitoba on the mounting importance of Asia entitled “The rise of Asia:...

A TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. natural gas supply line experienced a fire and explosion near Otterburne, Man., a small community off of Highway 59, at approximately 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25. The explosion sent a fireball...