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UMSU elections Facebook-free
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This year, the supplementary rules for the upcoming University of Manitoba Students Union (UMSU) election campaigns bans candidates from using Facebook.com to gain support for their campaigns.
After the supplementary rules were brought to UMSU...
Science opinions
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If you’ve been keeping up with news from Afghanistan in recent years you’ll know that a significant problem for NATO governments is the rapid growth in illicit opium poppy farming and export from that...
The age of things
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Just over 200 years ago, the prevailing belief popularized by religious mythology was that the planet earth had been around for just some 10,000 years. Thankfully scientists, like the French naturalist Comte de Buffon,...
Jesus lizard (and shark, and bird . . . )
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Sexual reproduction is a wonderful thing — scientifically speaking, of course. Through the combining of genetic material two individuals create a genetic offspring that is genetically similar, but not identical to the parents. However...
IQs water fountain spouts dirty water
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John Danakas, spokesperson for the University of Manitoba, said that the water provided on campus has always met the Canadian Drinking Water Quality guidelines, whenever the university has conducted water quality testing.
However, this fails...
UMSU Election Forum
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Students at the University of Manitoba had a chance to ask questions of the Moving Forward Slate, the only slate running in this year’s UMSU election, along with a representative from the Support The...
