Quad transformed into skating rink
While this winter’s recent cold snap has forced many students inside, it has also been exactly what the outdoor skating rink on the Duckworth Quadrangle…
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Alternative Reading Week announces local partners Four Winnipeg agencies are partnering with the University of Manitoba Student Life offices and Students’ Union for this year’s…
Indigenous research centre open to the public
The University of Manitoba community welcomed its first research space dedicated to studying Indigenous communities to its Fort Garry campus last Wednesday. Mamawipawin, located on…
Bornstein’s art moving to U of M
Thousands of people walked past Eli Bornstein’s “Structuralist Relief in 15 Pieces” when it hung in the old airport terminal and this summer many pedestrians…
Close SOPA and PIPA; OPEN the internet
Unlike SOPA and PIPA, The OPEN Act movement has a home on the Internet, where all the information regarding the bill is easily accessible.
Improve your life one week at a time
Monday Every week starts on Monday, no exceptions. Juice, beans, rice, coffee, oatmeal and, finally, quail eggs with a sprinkle of paprika — breakfast of…
The 5,000 yard club
From the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 until 2008, there had only been one athlete to ever pass for over 5,000 yards in a regular season…
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep, is about the life of an icon, the first female British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It is not at…
The times, they are a-changin’
The calendar, that trusty old grid of varying numbers of squares, is something we tend to take for granted. But for Richard Conn Henry, an…
Haier LCD L40F1180 TV review
I picked up a 40’’ Haier LCD television over Christmas break; we got it for $300, which was a steal. It seems that Haier television’s…