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U of M Aboriginal community outraged by racist classified ad
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Aboriginal students at the University of Manitoba are outraged over an online classified ad offering free “extraction” and “relocation” of Aboriginal youth from within city limits to reserves or areas of the city with...
2010 UMSU general election results
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Unofficial, partial results:
2374 ballots were cast — just over 10 per cent of eligible voters at U of M
309 were international students
1586 identified as women
1522 identified as Aboriginal
1422 identified as LGBTT*
1527 identified as students...
UMSU elections Facebook-free
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This year, the supplementary rules for the upcoming University of Manitoba Students Union (UMSU) election campaigns bans candidates from using Facebook.com to gain support for their campaigns.
After the supplementary rules were brought to UMSU...
Science opinions
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If you’ve been keeping up with news from Afghanistan in recent years you’ll know that a significant problem for NATO governments is the rapid growth in illicit opium poppy farming and export from that...
The age of things
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Just over 200 years ago, the prevailing belief popularized by religious mythology was that the planet earth had been around for just some 10,000 years. Thankfully scientists, like the French naturalist Comte de Buffon,...
Jesus lizard (and shark, and bird . . . )
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Sexual reproduction is a wonderful thing — scientifically speaking, of course. Through the combining of genetic material two individuals create a genetic offspring that is genetically similar, but not identical to the parents. However...
