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Celebration Week celebrates its 40th anniversary

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Ashley Gaboury
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, UMSU Celebration Week will run from Jan.25-29 at the Fort Garry campus and from Jan.20-22 at Bannatyne. As with previous years, Celebration Week will host a number of different...
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Online banking preferred method of tuition payment at U of M

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Sarah Petz
Over half of students at the University of Manitoba now use online banking to pay their tuition. Sam Vagianos, assistant manager of the revenue, general and student accounting department of the University of Manitoba, said...
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A critical analysis of facilitated communication

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Lee MacPherson
Locked-in syndrome is a terrifying condition where an individual’s senses, such as sight, hearing and touch, are intact, but they are physically paralyzed — they hear, see and feel but they cannot respond. A...
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Zoological investigations VII

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Leanne Grieves
That’s right, I said “oxpecker,” and no, I am not just gearing you up for Valentine’s Day. Folks, I am talking about birds — vampiristic birds! What a way to get back into the...
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Dr. Know

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Dr. Know
When last we left Dr. Know he spoke of having been in the midst of fleeing human authorities for some reason involving organ harvesting. Oh look: another transmission is incoming. Let’s listen . ....
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Privacy vs safety

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Leif Larsen
Exhibitionists might just decide to fly more often, following an announcement by the federal government on Jan. 5, 2010, that, in order to increase security at Canadian airports, full body scanners would be pressed...
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How do you like my third arm?

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Leif Larsen
If you’re one of those people who sit up at night, worrying about what radiation is doing to you, you might be worried about the new airport scanners described in the adjacent article. After...

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