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Another instalment of the U of M’s Visionary Conversations series was held last week at the university’s Fort Garry campus. An interdisciplinary panel, drawing from both academia and industry, attempted to anticipate the challenges...

The third annual CEO Sleepout, which took place Thursday, Sept. 26 in downtown Winnipeg, raised close to $200,000 for homeless charities and programs. The Downtown Winnipeg Business Improvement Zone (BIZ) puts on the event. Around...

Science education tends to be a strange mixture of technical concepts and history. Ideally this gives us the best of both worlds: we learn how to get things done, but we also learn how...

Conflict between Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and Greenpeace International has been escalating over the past week, following environmental activism occurring in the Arctic. What started off as a peaceful altercation between the organization...

After three days of pro-life demonstrations and counter-demonstrations on the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry Campus, the former making use of graphic genocide imagery, a cross-examination style debate was held on Thursday between Stephanie...

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the University of Manitoba’s centre for creative writing and oral culture (CCWOC) welcomed singer-songwriters John K. Samson and Christine Fellows into their recently-announced posts as this fall’s writers-in-residence. Samson and Fellows,...

A group of parents gathered at the Children’s Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 18 to discuss issues facing the Manitoba childcare system. The resounding majority of parents present felt that Manitoba does not have enough suitable...