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With an increased desire to be healthy, consumers and governments are putting the pressure on food companies to produce more nutritious snacks and beverages without compromising taste or quality — a challenge for science...

Sometimes when the planets align just right and enough information trickles down from the Internet to the real world, I find myself able to carry on conversations with people who actually go outside. Fortunately...

Early efforts to help the homeless and the hungry have kicked into high gear once again as the Christmas season approaches. Those on the front lines of efforts to help those in need say...

Low graduation rates at for-profit colleges: study A report on graduation rates found that only 22 per cent of first-time, full-time students at for-profit colleges in the U.S. graduate within six years, according to...

Two new Rhodes Scholars for the U of M Two students at the University of Manitoba set to graduate this spring have won prestigious Rhodes Scholarships. For Melissa Bailey and Jody Reimer, this scholarship means spending...

On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine walked into École Polytechnique de Montréal and murdered 14 students because they were female. He separated the male and female students in a classroom, allowed the men to leave...

New provincial legislation will increase the compulsory education age from 16 to 18 in an effort to curb dropout rates in Manitoba. The minister of education, Nancy Allan, said the proposed legislation reflects a changing...