Take off your clothes
Two weekends ago I attended a student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. The conference and speakers covered a wide array of topics, one of which…
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The clock is ticking
It’s five minutes to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an image representing the severity of threats to the planet and humanity in general. On the…
Eradication victory
As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as…
March of the supersoldiers
Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants,” a study out of McGill University published Jan. 6 in Science, shines light on a different class…
The big cheese
It is evident when cheese goes bad. A foul-smelling odour paired with the presence of uniquely coloured moulds and fungi renders this once pleasurable food…
CWB versus Canada
On Jan. 18 Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shane Perlmutter reserved his decision on whether to grant eight former directors of the Canadian Wheat Board…
Missing: female executives in business
Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) is holding a presentation on women in business in response to a report that shows little growth in the number…
Low attendance for key UMSU events
Due to the cancellation of their annual Charity Ball and low attendance at their last annual general meeting (AGM), the University of Manitoba Students’ Union…
international news briefs
Yemen’s president flies to Oman Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of Yemen, flew to the Persian Gulf country of Oman on Sunday Jan. 22. He will…
UMSU presents Celebration Week 2012
To enliven the University of Manitoba campus, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) is bringing back their annual weeklong series of events, Celebration Week….