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Last March, I wrote a piece on pigs for the Manitoban, following the dispute in the campus center between the Winnipeg Humane Society’s “Quit-Stalling” campaigners and the Aggies who came out to disagree with...

Assume for a moment that there is such thing as a “Canadian identity.” I, perhaps naively, would like to imagine that it is complex, subtle and inclusive — something that reminds us that Canada...

As a young person who is very health conscious, I am appalled at Toban Wiebe's letter of Sept. 30 (“Ask a health and fitness specialist”; Sept. 23, 2009). Although I agree that obesity is...

Have you ever been hit by a car? I have. In fact, I've been hit four times; three times while riding my bike. My most recent experience was this past Thursday morning as I...

I recently drove to Minneapolis to hear Kevin Smith, of Clerks fame, give a three-hour talk on whatever was on his mind. The topic of conversation drifted naturally — amazingly enough — from Hollywood...

HIV research led by University of Manitoba's own medical microbiology professor Stephen Moses has taken centre stage in the world of health research. Moses' findings — that circumcision among men who participate in heterosexual sex...

The salaries of female full-time teaching staff at universities across Canada are significantly lower that those of their male counterparts, according to Statistics Canada. The University of Manitoba falls under this category, as the average...