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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....

As per tradition, University of Manitoba Asper school of business students camped outside last week in participation with the Canada-wide Five Days for the Homeless (5DH) campaign. Typically, five Asper students spend five nights...

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has again come under fire in the media, this time due to accusations by historian Veronica Strong-Boag that the organization engaged in censorship when it removed a...

Rock star expositor of astrophysics Neil deGrasse Tyson delivered his first public lecture in Canada last Thursday, March 13 on the U of M campus. Thousands of Winnipeggers lined-up outside Investors Group Centre in anticipation...