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The people’s college
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The St. Paul’s College bell tower has long been a fixture of the University of Manitoba’s skyline, but beneath the cross that hovers above the Catholic college is an institution that has experienced remarkable...
Body-shaming incident at Active Living Centre raises ire of student body-builder
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Catherine Peeler, a University of Manitoba business student and competitive body-builder, spends nearly three hours a day in the Active Living Centre (ALC) campus gym working on her physique – but she said she...
Talking transportation
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In the face of persistent transportation challenges in Winnipeg, South Winnipeg-St. Norbert Coun. Janice Lukes is listening as the city’s residents sound off through a series of public consultations this winter and into the...
Lecture sheds light on environmental impacts of oil pipelines in Canada
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The University of Manitoba Critical Environments Research Group dug into an environmental history of pipelines in Canada with a guest lecture from York University professor Sean Kheraj Feb. 23.
Treating people like people
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University of Manitoba PhD student Walter Chan first connected with the disability movement in 2002 while completing his master of social work.
Finding the ripples in space-time
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On Feb. 11, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in a press conference that they have observed gravitational waves.
A corresponding peer-reviewed journal article was published in the American Physical Society...
New research links children who wheeze to asthma development later in...
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Researchers at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia have found a connection between wheezing in infants and young children and the possibility of developing asthma later in life.
The study, published...
