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Save the ELA: Fight to keep Experimental Lakes Area continues
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On Nov. 27, world-renowned limnologist David Schindler delivered a compelling speech at the University of Manitoba entitled “Contributions of the Experimental Lakes Area to solving cultural eutrophication in Canada’s freshwater lakes.” Later that...
Inner-city campus helps with annual community event
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An annual holiday event, Lighting Up The Avenue (LUTA), will brighten up Selkirk Avenue once again on Dec. 6. The yearly celebration is hosted by the North End Community Helpers Network (NECHN) as a...
Child and family advocacy group releases report on poverty in Canada
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Campaign 2000, an anti-poverty advocacy group, released its annual report card on the state of child and family poverty in Canada last week. The report found that the problem of poverty has, in recent...
Social workers hired to help those in need downtown
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Two new social workers, hired by the Downtown Winnipeg Business Improvement Zone (BIZ), will be available in 2013 for people in need downtown. The move aims to reduce arrests through viable long-term solutions that...
E. coli, food security, and the ethics of meat production
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A new labour studies course entitled “Advocacy and Animal Rights,” will begin in January 2013, and will examine the issue of food ethics.
The course came out of Canada’s largest meat recall at Alberta’s...
Winnipeg police officer on trial for assault of prisoner
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A Winnipeg police officer is currently standing trial for allegedly assaulting a prisoner who he was transporting to the Winnipeg Remand Centre. The trial commenced on Nov. 26.
The police officer, constable Ryan Law, nephew...
High and dry?
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Members and supporters of Lake St. Martin First Nation gathered at the Manitoba Legislature on Monday, Nov. 26, in attempt to demand answers from the provincial government on when they will be able to...