U of M reorganizing 20 faculties into 13
On Jan. 19 President David Barnard announced a plan that could result in seven fewer faculties by 2017 and a combination of the medical faculties…
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listening in
The latest from the critically lauded Gorillaz — a collection of singles spanning the group’s career, dating from 2001 to 2011 — provides a set…
Provincial man
They say you should always write about what you know. If that’s the case, Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson knows his home province of Manitoba…
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…
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…