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Indigenous research centre open to the public
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The University of Manitoba community welcomed its first research space dedicated to studying Indigenous communities to its Fort Garry campus last Wednesday.
Mamawipawin, located on the fourth floor of the Isbister building, is intended to...
Bornstein’s art moving to U of M
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Thousands of people walked past Eli Bornstein’s “Structuralist Relief in 15 Pieces” when it hung in the old airport terminal and this summer many pedestrians will walk past it again — once it is...
Close SOPA and PIPA; OPEN the internet
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Unlike SOPA and PIPA, The OPEN Act movement has a home on the Internet, where all the information regarding the bill is easily accessible.
Improve your life one week at a time
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Monday
Every week starts on Monday, no exceptions. Juice, beans, rice, coffee, oatmeal and, finally, quail eggs with a sprinkle of paprika — breakfast of champions. If you don’t have enough time in your mornings...
The 5,000 yard club
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From the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 until 2008, there had only been one athlete to ever pass for over 5,000 yards in a regular season while donning a NFL uniform — a 23-year-old quarterback...
The Iron Lady
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The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep, is about the life of an icon, the first female British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It is not at all what I had expected. A neat, clean, chronological...
The times, they are a-changin’
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The calendar, that trusty old grid of varying numbers of squares, is something we tend to take for granted. But for Richard Conn Henry, an astronomer at The Johns Hopkins University, and Steve H....
