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Lessons from Mother Nature: The potential of green infrastructure in cleaning...
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(Image: North End Water Pollution Control Centre)
The City of Winnipeg has been updating its wastewater treatment plants. These upgrades, slated to wrap up in 2014, will allow for the removal of more nutrients, toxic...
Enemy at the gates: Taking a look at invasive aquatic species...
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Rivers and lakes have long been important for Manitoba. They are a source of food, they generate our electricity, and at one time they were important transportation routes. They are also centres of leisure....
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...
