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Video games to help battle dyslexia

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Elizabeth Drewnik
Playing video games is not only for the fangirls and fanboys (although that new Deadpool game sure looks great). They can also be used to help people struggling with literacy from dyslexia. Between five...
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Crazy Indians Brotherhood not your average gang

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Caleigh MacDonald
They look like a stereotypical street gang, dressed in black leather with their “colours”—a stylized caricatured face with a black eye patch—emblazoned across their backs, but the Crazy Indians Brotherhood (CIB) is trying to...
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A phenomenal journey

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Christiane Fischer has come a long way over the past five years. Hailing from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, the 5’6’’ point guard has found success everywhere she’s travelled. Fischer’s North American journey began in the 2009-10 season...
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UMSU general election candidates announced

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Quinn Richert
Last Friday saw the first all-candidates meeting for the 2014 UMSU general elections. Slates and community representatives were officially announced at the meeting, held in the UMSU council chambers. The end of the meeting was...
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6,000 years of trade

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Lukas Thiessen
For at least 6,000 years, international trade occurred at the confluence of what we now call the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Cree, Anishinaabe, Sioux, and Nakoda traders made use of these waterways long before...
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A pHantastic discovery

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Elizabeth Drewnik
A novel approach to stem cell research, published in the journal Nature, has been implemented by Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan. The research used acidic conditions to...
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Katz got your tongue?

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Quinn Richert
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz is suing the parent company of the Uniter, the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg, over an article that came out in late 2013 that he has claimed...