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Professor devotes his life to helping those close to death
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Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov has recently received the 2012 CMA Frederic Newton Gisborned (FNG) Starr Award. Chochinov is a University of Manitoba psychiatrist, director of the Manitoban Palliative Care Research Unit at CancerCare Manitoba,...
U of M faculty reduction may become reality
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The University of Manitoba faculties of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy may eventually combine into one in an effort to reduce the overall number of faculties. Over the next five years, the University of Manitoba...
Provincial progressive conservative party finds new leader
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The provincial conservatives have found a new leader in Brian Pallister, the sole contender of the leadership race.
Pallister has replaced former conservative leader Hugh McFadyen , who stepped down after the 2011 provincial election....
Attempted gender balance in engineering
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The U of M engineering faculty still sees disappointing numbers in female enrolment, despite numerous efforts to even the gender balance. Only one in every six engineering student is a woman. At a school...
Notes from the Northern Boreal: A wandering bird biologist’s field journals
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“Threatened” Canada Warblers and mimicry in male Redstarts.
Notes from the Northern Boreal: A wandering bird biologist’s field journals
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My ‘birder’ origin story
My name is Bryce Hoye, and I am a “birder.” We come in a variety of morphs, us birders: some are cut from the backyard bird-watching cloth; other, more ambitious and...
