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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Students and faculty gathered in the engineering building on Tuesday for an armchair session on Ethics and Engineering Education. The event, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering, the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics,...

Finance report: Frosh Festival failed to break even Justin Paquin of Paquin Entertainment reported to UMSU council on Monday, Oct. 21 that the Frosh Music Festival generated a net loss of $150,404. Paquin entertainment was contracted...