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Girl Scouts from around the world gather every year on Feb. 22 to celebrate World Thinking Day, a day designed to teach Girl Guides about world issues, and this year the theme is centred...

New research shows that at least 3,000 children died while attending the Indian residential schools (IRS) system in Canada. The research was, and continues to be, conducted under the Missing Children Project, whose establishment...

The last week of February brings the U of M’s first Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), which aims to present graduate students’ research to the public in a coherent and interesting fashion. Initially developed...

In an effort to raise awareness about homelessness and gather donations for a local non-profit organization, several University of Manitoba students are preparing to spend five consecutive days sleeping outside as a part of...

Along with five campus labour unions, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) held a rally at Chancellor’s Circle, outside the administration building, on Wednesday, Feb. 13 to protest various forms of privatization at...

n 2009 four Swedish men—Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Carl Lundström—were sentenced to a year in jail and fined US $4.5 million. The crime? Operating The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest...

On Feb. 15 at 3:20 Coordinated Universal Time a meteorite exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in central Russia. Travelling at a speed of around 18 km/sec (40,000 mph) when it broke the Earth’s...