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Idle No More symposium held at the U of M
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A symposium hosted by the University of Manitoba Native Studies Graduate Students’ Association took place on Friday, Mar. 8 and included a variety of discussions on issues relating to the Idle No More movement.
The...
Violence against women high in Manitoba
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Statistics Canada released a report on Feb. 25 detailing rates of violence against women in Canada, which showed that Manitoba has more than double the national average rate of violence committed against women.
The report...
National news briefs
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Experimental Lakes Area’s federal funding, control to run dry
Federal funding of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), an unoccupied and protected area of land in Ontario used for environmental research, is expected to freeze come...
Resistance is fertile
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Both women and men marched down Broadway Avenue on Friday, Mar. 8 for International Women’s Day. Participants chanted phrases such as, “two, four, six, eight, we’re the ones that ovulate,” while holding signs that...
Preliminary UMSU general election results
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Preliminary vote counts released by the chief returning officer (CRO) supervising the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) general elections indicate that the UMSU Fresh slate will hold all executive positions in the 2013-14...
Crowdsourced gunsmithing: 3D-printed guns raise unsettling questions
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"Information wants to be free.”
This is the motto of the Internet. At this moment I can go to one of several shady websites and download a fully functional copy of almost any film...
Living with wildlife: Biologist Ryan Brook discusses human perspectives on wildlife...
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As wild areas shrink and human populations expand, there is more contact between humans and wildlife, and inevitably more conflict.
Consider Bambi, the pet deer that was put down by Manitoba Conservation officers in...



