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A student’s guide to personal finance

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Katy MacKinnon
When you’re drowning in textbooks and preoccupied with new ideas, new classes, and new friends, financial planning is probably the last thing on your mind. Who wants to budget every coffee and orange juice...
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Ally training offered at the U of M

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Quinn Richert
Last week, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), the UMSU Womyn’s Centre, and the Rainbow Pride Mosaic (RPM) jointly organized and held part one of a two-part LGBTTQ* ally training course in the...
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NDP tax move not cut and dry

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Caleigh MacDonald
Senior citizens in Manitoba will soon be paying a reduced amount of yearly provincial tax as Greg Selinger’s NDP government makes good on a 2011 election commitment. Finance Minister Stan Struthers announced the plan nearly...
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Benjamin Klass, Open Media, and the CRTC

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Grace Kennedy
Taking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) up on an open offer to all citizen groups, Open Media, a British Columbia-based advocacy group for fair media practices, will hold five conferences across Canada...
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National news briefs

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Quinn Richert
Military issues memo on whistleblowers Lt.-Gen. Marquis Haines of the Canadian army distributed a memo to service members recently announcing his commitment to disciplining service members caught leaking confidential military information to the press. “As in...
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Canadian food just barely safe enough for America

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Caleigh MacDonald
A report recently released by American health inspectors said that Canadian food is safe enough to be exported – but barely. The report, written in 2012 and only made public last month, expressed concerns over both...
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U of M Bangladeshi students and grads protest violence against religious...

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Kevin Linklater
Violence and turmoil rocked Bangladesh leading up to, and during the national parliamentary elections held Jan. 5. A group of U of M alumni and students brought to light some of the issues facing the...