Aboriginal Students Gathering at Migizii Agamik
The 2014 Aboriginal Students Gathering was held at the University of Manitoba’s Migizii Agamik building earlier this month. On Feb. 14 and 15, students discussed…
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Student email addresses leaked
Late last month, Manitoba Student Aid (MSA), a provincial government program which lends money to post-secondary students, accidentally released over 700 student email addresses to…
The spread of superbugs
Researchers from Newcastle University, U.K., and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, recently shed light on a growing health concern. Published in the journal Environmental…
Video games to help battle dyslexia
Playing video games is not only for the fangirls and fanboys (although that new Deadpool game sure looks great). They can also be used to…
Crazy Indians Brotherhood not your average gang
They look like a stereotypical street gang, dressed in black leather with their “colours”—a stylized caricatured face with a black eye patch—emblazoned across their backs,…
A phenomenal journey
Christiane Fischer has come a long way over the past five years. Hailing from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, the 5’6’’ point guard has found success everywhere she’s…
UMSU general election candidates announced
Last Friday saw the first all-candidates meeting for the 2014 UMSU general elections. Slates and community representatives were officially announced at the meeting, held in…
6,000 years of trade
For at least 6,000 years, international trade occurred at the confluence of what we now call the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Cree, Anishinaabe, Sioux, and…
A pHantastic discovery
A novel approach to stem cell research, published in the journal Nature, has been implemented by Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental…
Katz got your tongue?
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz is suing the parent company of the Uniter, the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg, over an article that…