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Food Strategy pushes for change in U of M campus food...

By
Kevin Linklater
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...
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Introduction to the Ethical Consumption feature

By
Fraser Nelund
The term “ethical consumer” grew into Western culture in the late 1980s – it was the title of a British magazine. The idea of support being rendered and distaste being expressed through purchasing habits...
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Proposed changes to Canada Post met with backlash from labour union

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Kevin Linklater
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,...
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Attention back on assisted suicide debate

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Caleigh MacDonald
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...
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How to feed the world

By
Quinn Richert
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...
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Former Canadian ambassador to China taken to task on report by...

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Kevin Linklater
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:...
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Natural gas explosion near Otterburne

By
Caleigh MacDonald
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...