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FIFA faux pas 14 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Next July, the soccer world will turn its attention to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup. In my mind, Brazil is to soccer what Canada is to hockey: the Brazilian national football team has won more World...
Fill the house 14 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
Once you add up tuition, books, and parking, it is nice to hear something is free. Bison Sports recently announced that all University of Manitoba students shall receive free admission to the 2013-1...
No more passing the Buck 14 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
Only six weeks into the 2013 CFL season, and unfortunately for the Bombers and their fans, the biggest news stories surrounding the team have occurred off the field.Firstly, the Buck Pierce era of Blu...
Three zeros 13 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
In light of a recent UNAIDS report indicating drops of up to 50 per cent in new HIV infections in some of the most severely affected parts of Africa, as well as broader contentions that the “global in...
The prisoner’s dilemma 13 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
Wendell Smith stood on the Kennedy Street sidewalk between the Old Law Courts and the Winnipeg Remand Centre (WRC), equipped with a handmade sign reading “prison [does not equal] justice.” Smith said ...
No room for SAIA at York University 13 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
Three months ago, the York University administration revoked the official club status of the campus’ Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) branch, on the grounds that their Mar. 27 rally on the sc...
Saying “no” to Russian vodka 13 Aug 2013 | 09:14 am
In June this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a constitutional law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,” and laying fines on those demonstrating at public gay pride ral...
Controversy over Canadian Human Rights Museum continues 13 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
A recent controversy regarding the Canadian Human Rights Museum (CHRM) ensued over whether or not to label the residential school system, an aspect of European colonization, as “genocide.” The decisio...
Not your average burger 13 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
Do you know where your meat comes from? Mark Post from Maastricht University in the Netherlands is adding “the laboratory” to an ever-growing list of meat sources in our society. The burger is not ge...
U of M professor links physical punishment of children to lasting health conditions 13 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am
An association between the physical punishment of children and chronic health effects has been discovered in one of the first comprehensive studies of physical punishment in the absence of severe abus...
