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CFS’ National Day of Action returns to Manitoba
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Students will be calling on the provincial government to reduce student debt, tuition fees, as well as to increase funding and equality for international and Aboriginal students as part of the Canadian Federation of...
GSA questions membership with CFS-MB
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After finding conflicting documentation surrounding their original application, the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) is questioning the validity of their membership with the Canadian Federation of Students — Manitoba.
A preliminary report, titled...
U of M reorganizing 20 faculties into 13
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On Jan. 19 President David Barnard announced a plan that could result in seven fewer faculties by 2017 and a combination of the medical faculties by Dec. 2012.
The University of Manitoba has 20 faculties...
listening in
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The latest from the critically lauded Gorillaz — a collection of singles spanning the group’s career, dating from 2001 to 2011 — provides a set of self-confident songs from the band’s rich catalogue. After...
Provincial man
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They say you should always write about what you know. If that’s the case, Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson knows his home province of Manitoba very well.
Released late January through Epitaph/ANTI- Records, Samson’s solo...
Take off your clothes
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Two weekends ago I attended a student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. The conference and speakers covered a wide array of topics, one of which was titled The Human Body Project. This presentation was...
The clock is ticking
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It’s five minutes to midnight.
The Doomsday Clock is an image representing the severity of threats to the planet and humanity in general. On the clock, times closer to midnight signify higher threats and midnight...
