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Student associations across Canada seek better student health plans

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Talia Joundi
Health care services administered by the province are often unable to meet the all health needs of students, making health plans offered by student unions increasingly popular. The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU),...
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Resource optimization projects set to save millions for the U of...

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Talia Joundi
Resource optimization projects ROSE (Resource Optimization and Service Enhancing) and OARs (Optimizing Academic Resources) are set to save some serious cash for the University of Manitoba. “ROSE and OARs are progressing well,” said U...
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New Briefs

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Daniel Guezen
Province can’t bury bodies: Health Minister The province doesn’t have the legal authority to bury the human specimens in the Bodies exhibit, Heath Minister Theresa Oswald said Friday, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. However,...
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Decision on copyright fees could take over a year

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Sarah Petz
It could be over a year until a decision is made on the proposed new tariff from Access Copyright, the collective that licenses copying and course packs for most universities across Canada. Gilles McDougall,...
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Science Briefs

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Miguel Yetman
Underwater cloak renders objects invisible to sonar “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking about controlling sound waves by bending and twisting them in a designer space,” said Nicholas Fang, mechanical science...
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Tobacco’s renaissance

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Colin Rumbolt
Although the sphere of political debate is usually filled with passionate disagreement, there are a few subjects most politicians seem to agree on. You know the ones I mean: crime is bad, children and...
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Finally, a research article even an 8-year-old can undersand

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Lee MacPherson
Last year was a fantastic one for the science world, thanks largely to the efforts out of England. First, the journal The Lancet retracted Andrew Wakefield’s paper, which fraudulently linked autism and the MMR...

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