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U of M encourage students, staff to self-report illness
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With the click of a button, students, faculty and staff at universities across Canada can now report their illness-related absences online. Universities in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary currently have systems up and running.
At...
Dutch elm vaccine tested in Winnipeg
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With H1N1 causing all the hype in the news these days it’s easy to overlook other vaccination projects — especially when the vaccine is for a tree. While the final impact of H1N1 remains...
Why you shouldn’t buy lottery tickets or worry about H1N1
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As an only child, sharing was something that I did only under the most serious of threats, like the loss of television privileges for a week. In those terrible instances in which I was...
Ask a scientist
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Bullets are so 19th-century, and missiles went out of style with skinny ties and leather pants. It’s the 21st century people, and some of us want to know “where is my laser gun?”
Bullets, if...
Exoplanets, wobbles and spectrum analysis, OH my!
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Are we alone in the universe? This question has probably been pondered since humans first realized that each of the bright twinkling dots in the nighttime sky was a distant sun, and has driven...
Anti-spam bill could protect Canadians by end of year
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OTTAWA (CUP) — Canadians could very soon enjoy better protection when it comes to unwanted spam filling their email inboxes.
Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act, passed through the House of Commons’ standing committee...
