Bus driver assaults endemic in Canada
A 23-year-old man was recently arrested and charged in connection with a September assault on a Winnipeg Transit bus driver, just the latest Winnipeg example of…
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Facebook announces AI team
New research within Facebook involves using artificial intelligence to process data, according to a recent announcement from the company. The research project, which uses a…
Toronto mayor, on the rock(s)
Rob Ford is no stranger to controversy. The recent scandal involving a video of him under the influence of crack cocaine is just the latest…
U of M panel highlights Canada’s worsening international reputation
Canada’s waning international reputation was the subject of a panel discussion hosted last Tuesday by the global political economy program at the University of Manitoba,…
A tale of two student groups
Two U of M student groups interested in examining the Arab-Israeli conflict were recently before the University of Manitoba Students’ Union’s (UMSU) Student Group Promotion…
Campus news briefs
Final exam policy changed The U of M implemented changes to the final exam and final grades policy effective Sept. 1 of this year. The…
Campus redesign winners announced
On Nov. 3 the University of Manitoba announced the winners of the Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition, a contest that drew submissions from around the…
Albert Street Autonomous Zone hosts Winnipeg’s sixth Anarchist BookFair
This past weekend, Winnipeg leftists, anti-capitalists, and other folks critical of the current state of affairs gathered at the Albert Street Autonomous Zone at 91…
Brain computing
Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a revolutionary transistor that behaves in similar ways to the synapses of…
News briefs
Rob Ford wants video released Toronto Mayor Rob Ford recently asked that Toronto police make public a video that allegedly shows him using crack cocaine….