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Fair Trade Challenge launches on Halloween
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Beginning on Halloween, the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC) is proposing a challenge: purchase fair trade coffee, tea, and chocolate as much as you can for the entire month. The Fair Trade Challenge...
NDP seeks reset in cabinet shuffle
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Greg Selinger’s NDP provincial government sought to reinvigorate things with a cabinet shuffle on Oct 18. The shuffle saw numerous changes, with three new ministers elevated from the backbenches, three dropped, and four veteran...
Making noise to support prisoners
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In May of 2012, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a plan of the federal government’s to implement changes to prisoners’ wages. At the time, Toews said the changes would save over $4 million...
Financial reports delivered to UMSU council
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University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) councillors and students-at-large were allowed a glimpse of the fiscal state of the union last week, after council saw dual finance reports – one from vice-president internal Amanda...
Negotiation details between U of M and UMFA surface
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On Monday, Oct. 21, a deal was struck at the 11th hour between the U of M administration and the U of M Faculty Association (UMFA), narrowly avoiding a strike. Three points of contention...
Bone business
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Just in time for Halloween, a controversy has erupted in the scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site in Dmanisi, Georgia.
In 2000, a jaw bone was discovered...
It’s official!
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China has received approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a live attenuated vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a viral brain infection transferred by mosquitoes that causes 10-15,000 deaths per year, mostly in...