Depending on the source, somewhere close to one third of the 370 delegates at the 74th Canadian University Press conference fell ill with norovirus (or Norwalk) on Jan. 14 and 15. This is a...

On Jan. 5 record breaking temperatures swept over southern Manitoba. Winnipeg’s Richardson International Airport reached a high of 6.4 C, Portage la Prairie and Winkler hit 10 C and 11 C, respectively. Environment Canada cites...

Are there resident breeding populations of cougar in Manitoba? “The answer is a resounding . . . maybe,” according to Bill Watkins while presiding over a crowd of engaged university students and science professionals...

Eraser Head, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart — David Lynch hallmarks all. But Lynch and his unorthodoxy have found new form in the Nov. 13 release of Crazy Clown Time (CCT), the filmmaker’s first...

Maybe you’ve read your fair share of Occupy Wall Street articles in the last seven weeks; strap in for another. Since its inception on September 17th in New York’s Zucotti Park, branches of the...

This week in science fiction: the kraken — a giant squid mythologized by centuries of sailors — is being held responsible for a mass grave of neatly arranged 220-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossils, excavated some 83...

An article published in the journal Nature on Oct. 5, entitled “Human oocytes reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state,” chronicles the findings of a research team from the New York Stem Cell Foundation...