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In June this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a constitutional law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,” and laying fines on those demonstrating at public gay pride rallies. Moscow’s anti-gay law has been met...

A recent controversy regarding the Canadian Human Rights Museum (CHRM) ensued over whether or not to label the residential school system, an aspect of European colonization, as “genocide.” The decision has been settled – “genocide”...

Do you know where your meat comes from? Mark Post from Maastricht University in the Netherlands is adding “the laboratory” to an ever-growing list of meat sources in our society. The burger is not genetically...

An association between the physical punishment of children and chronic health effects has been discovered in one of the first comprehensive studies of physical punishment in the absence of severe abuse. Tracie Afifi, assistant professor...

Erika Dueck and Hillary Smith, recent graduates of the University of Manitoba’s school of art program, won prizes from BMO Financial Group’s 2013 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. A carefully selected committee of...

In a world increasingly driven by the exchange of data over the Internet, the issue of online privacy is never far from the public eye. This is especially true recently, in the wake of...

Welcome back! This issue, we’ll be finishing up the PCR experiment. Last time, we left off with our extracted mouse DNA samples sitting in the fridge. Now, we’re going to thaw the samples out...