CFS’ National Day of Action returns to Manitoba
Students will be calling on the provincial government to reduce student debt, tuition fees, as well as to increase funding and equality for international and…
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GSA questions membership with CFS-MB
After finding conflicting documentation surrounding their original application, the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) is questioning the validity of their membership with the…
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…
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…