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CFS-Quebec members preparing reform package

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Justin Giovannetti
MONTREAL (CUP) — In response to petitions from students at 13 schools across Canada to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the national lobby group’s Quebec branch (CFS-Q) has released a reform package...
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Why you should be concerned about species extinction

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Colin Rumbolt
Most of you were probably taught that “extinction is forever.” Heck, you may have even bought a T-shirt with that logo on it, hoping that your fashion sense or financial support might stem the...
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Ask a scientist

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Leif Larsen
What does it sound like when doves cry? Much to the dismay of the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, according to some cursory research, very few non-mammals actually cry. So...
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Close encounter

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Landon Wark
The universe is beginning to look a lot less lonely than it used to. The probability of all of the components coming together in an environment that can support life is an indicator of...
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The science of hatred

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Jen Robinson
In the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis play siblings whose rivalry and hatred for each other almost surpasses the real-life malice between the two. In one...
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Better know a prokaryote

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Leif Larsen
Escherichia coli, or E. coli, as its friends know it, has gotten a pretty bad rap lately. From tainting water supplies in Walkerton, Ontario to contaminating ground beef and — to the delight of...
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Human versus machine

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Leif Larsen
In the boardrooms, laboratories and command centres of space agencies around the world a war is coming — a war, which will pit burley astronauts, who excel at winning the hearts and minds of...

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