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Winnipeg Folk fest denies animator application of popular local group The Castle Boys, a popular installation at the campground of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, were denied animator status by festival organizers this year. The group...

Note: for the purposes of this article, the administrator of UManitoba Confessions is referred to as Admin, and the administrator of UManitoba Confessions 2.0 is referred to as Admin 2.0 Since the start of Facebook...

Last week marked the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) in Winnipeg since Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) had their official student group status revoked by UMSU last spring. Israeli Apartheid Week brought the SAIA controversy...

When thinking of the next new product that could be used as a flame retardant, milk is probably not at the top of the list. For the first time ever, bovine milk has been...

William Herschel did not begin his career as a professional scientist. For the first several decades of his life astronomy was just a hobby. His career was in music. Born to an oboist in...

Will Ukraine survive Yanukovych? Such was the name of a talk Alexander Motyl delivered last Friday on the University of Manitoba campus. Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, spoke to the institutional...

The issue of youth unemployment was front-and-centre last Friday at a forum hosted by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Labour Congress, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and several labour unions....