Our universities in Manitoba are having trouble operating. Between inflation, tuition freezes, crumbling buildings, a bad economy and a host of other issues, it is amazing that our post-secondary institutions can even afford to...

We think we have an identity crisis in this country. We become very quiet when asked the inevitable cultural question, “What is Canadian food?” We resign ourselves to admitting that Canada, while great, is...

Exhibitionists might just decide to fly more often, following an announcement by the federal government on Jan. 5, 2010, that, in order to increase security at Canadian airports, full body scanners would be pressed...

If you’re one of those people who sit up at night, worrying about what radiation is doing to you, you might be worried about the new airport scanners described in the adjacent article. After...

The natural forces that shaped our planet, such as the formation of oceans, seas and ice ages are gradual processes that take thousands if not millions of years. Right? Wrong! According to several studies,...

Ah the top-X-list. A succinct way to sum up a period of time, and neatly wrap up a decade that had nearly as many names — the “naughties,” “noughts,” “oughts,” — as it did...

I am a child of the 1980s, and therefore lived in what is quite possibly the worst decade for cars in the history of that four-wheeled invention. The K-car still sends shudders down my...