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  • Heightened expectations

    Ryan Simmons | Nov 16

    The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, now in its eighth year, is returning with heightened ambitions and a slate of fifty films from Winnipeg and abroad

    ...

  • New Chancellor to be elected

    Sarah Petz | Nov 19

    Nominations for the Office of the Chancellor are currently being accepted as the current chancellor, Dr. William Norrie, is ending his three-year term. “It is...

  • Dear Media

    Tanis Klippenstein | Nov 18

    An angered epistle to the dreaded Media

  • UMSU and U of M collaborate to expose students to art

    Morgan Modjeski | Nov 19

    The University of Manitoba and the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) have officially kicked off a campus wide event aimed at getting students involved...

  • Give the art gallery to people who need and want it

    Ben Clarkson | Nov 17

    You aren't artists, what you’ve made isn't art, and you are depriving hardworking artists at the university of an important opportunity exhibiting and exposing their...

  • Exoplanets, wobbles and spectrum analysis, OH my!

    Leif Larsen | Nov 17

    SETI waits for alien phone calls while UFO buffs wait for alien spacecraft to show up. But some of us are sick of waiting! We're...

  • Online social Networking boosts self-esteem, encourages friendships

    Samantha Lockhart | Nov 18

    The Pew Internet and American Life Project, which released a report on Nov. 4, 2009, said that since 1985 the amount of close friendships people...

  • Water belongs to everyone, and to no one

    Talia Joundi | Nov 16

    It is estimated that 1.7 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, across the Globe.

  • Dutch elm vaccine tested in Winnipeg

    Colin Rumbolt | Nov 17

    Dutch elm disease is taking our trees. Last year more than 4,000 elms were lost. A new vaccine could cut that number by more than...

  • The final score stands

    Fred Morris | Nov 16

    The Nov. 3 boardroom decision to replace the Bisons in the playoffs was actually the second round of boardroom football for the team in 2009.

    ...

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In depth

  • UMSU Semi-Annual General Meeting list new improvements to be had on campus

    Samantha Lockhart

    This past Thursday, Nov. 12, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) held its Semi-Annual General Meeting at the Bannatyne campus.

  • Fort Hood shooting, an inexcusable crime

    Omar Al-Ramlawi

    On Nov. 5, Major Nidal Hasan, a physiatrist in the United States Army, opened fire on his fellow servicemen in Fort Hood, Texas, resulting in...

  • When and Wear: Buttons

    Jillian Coubrough

    Buttons, buttons everywhere!

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November 18, 2009

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