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A phenomenal journey
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Christiane Fischer has come a long way over the past five years. Hailing from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, the 5’6’’ point guard has found success everywhere she’s travelled.
Fischer’s North American journey began in the 2009-10 season...
UMSU general election candidates announced
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Last Friday saw the first all-candidates meeting for the 2014 UMSU general elections.
Slates and community representatives were officially announced at the meeting, held in the UMSU council chambers. The end of the meeting was...
6,000 years of trade
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For at least 6,000 years, international trade occurred at the confluence of what we now call the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Cree, Anishinaabe, Sioux, and Nakoda traders made use of these waterways long before...
A pHantastic discovery
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A novel approach to stem cell research, published in the journal Nature, has been implemented by Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan. The research used acidic conditions to...
Katz got your tongue?
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Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz is suing the parent company of the Uniter, the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg, over an article that came out in late 2013 that he has claimed...
Indigenous politics and Canada’s colonial legacy
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Two University of Manitoba associate professors met last Thursday in a round-table discussion with students to debate ideas of liberalism, indigenous political theories, and human rights in a talk titled “Human Rights for All...
Nominations open for UMSU elections
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The nominations process for University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) elections is underway, but chief returning officer (CRO) Jacqueline Keena is remaining quiet about which students have put their names in for executive and...



