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GSA Candidate Interviews

GSA presidential candidate: Dewa Mangal The Manitoban: Why are you running for this position and what experience do you bring? Dewa Mangal: I have some…


Student critical of DRO hiring procedure

With various preparations and responsibilities to be performed, the University of Manitoba’s Students’ Union (UMSU) elections create a number of job opportunities for students on…



That’s too big!

Arabic numerals, which are what we here in Canada and the scientific community at large use to represent numbers, were a huge advancement over the…


Sudoku: behind the scenes

Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he…


Browsing for web browsers

Back when I was a kid, there were only two kinds of peanut butter on the shelf — chunky and smooth — a handful of…


Life after death

Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family…