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Water, water, everywhere

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Chantelle Dubois
Recently NASA announced that liquid water has been found on Mars. This water was discovered after analyzing streaks that appeared on slopes which disappeared in cold weather and reappeared in warm weather. The discovery...
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Science briefs: Helpful bugs

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Malak Abas
Brazilian wasp venom contains cancer-fighting toxins Recent studies on the Brazilian wasp Polybia palista reveal that the venom in their stingers contains what may one day be an effective treatment to fight cancer. The peptide...
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Telework

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Chantelle Dubois
Telework, or remote working, is a steadily increasing trend in the workplace, with a 26 per cent increase in telework job postings in the U.S. for 2014 over the previous year. Thanks to cloud sharing...
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Lecture reflects on legacy of the Ebola crisis

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Lauren Siddall
The University of Manitoba welcomed medical lawyer Jonathan Cohen on Oct. 2 to deliver the annual Class of 1972 Arnold Naimark Lecture in Medicine and Society, for the faculty of health sciences at the...
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Community meeting charts way forward on illegal housing

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Garett Williams
If the illegal rooming houses that have been sprouting up in neighbourhoods surrounding the University of Manitoba are to be weeded out, the effort has to come from the community itself. That was the...
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CPA Manitoba streamlines accounting designation

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Garett Williams
A new professional accounting designation and regulatory body that came into effect in September should relieve stress for students looking to enter the accounting field at the University of Manitoba in the years ahead. Previously,...
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University of Manitoba Press launches Decolonizing Employment

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Osho Samuel Adetunji
The call for inclusion of indigenous Canadians in the labour market is the focus of a new book launching this week from the University of Manitoba Press, entitled Decolonizing Employment. The newly published book was...

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