Students and universities in the province of Manitoba should be happy with the provincial NDP’s 2011 budget. The budget will link the rate of tuition increase with inflation, this means that Manitoba students can expect to pay about one to two per cent more for their education this September, as opposed to the five per [...]
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Author Archive for Leif Larsen
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This campus is a sty
U of M Engineering student David McGinn saw something weird on campus Friday, April 8: pigs running loose. The student spotted the animals outside of the Animal Sciences building on the Fort Garry campus. There were also reports of pigs being seen close to the stadium site and at other locations on campus. Security Services [...]
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Forget eating local
Food independence is an important thing. The more control you have over where your food comes from, the more you can depend on its wholesomeness and its reliability. There are steps you can take, such as community supported agriculture or developing relationships with suppliers . . . but one of the most important things you [...]
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Liberals talk childcare
On Thursday, March 31, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff briefly toured the Lord Roberts Preschool before announcing that his party, if elected, would create an “early learning and childcare fund of $500 million,” aimed at shrinking daycare waitlists around the country. The fund would eventually increase in size to $1 billion. “The most important thing that [...]
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DIY mechanic
The inner workings of a car are pretty scary. There is a mess of tubes, wires and metal bits; who knows what will happen if you start messing with those, right? On a new car — say one built in the past 10 years — I’m inclined to agree with that. There is a lot [...]
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No aboriginal rep on 2011 UMSU election ballot
Despite an extension of the nomination period, the 2011 UMSU general election, which was held between March 9 and 11, went ahead without an aboriginal student representative on the ballot. According to the University of Manitoba Aboriginal Students Association (UMASA), the fact that nobody was willing to run hints at issues within the University of [...]
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No aboriginal rep on 2011 UMSU election ballot
Despite an extension of the nomination period, the 2011 UMSU general election, which was held between March 9 and 11, went ahead without an aboriginal student representative on the ballot. According to the University of Manitoba Aboriginal Students Association (UMASA), the fact that nobody was willing to run hints at issues within the University of [...]
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The last temptation of Bowler
Last Wednesday, millions of Christians gave something up in the name of Lent. Some gave up meat, others alcohol — the list is impossibly exhaustive. Arts Editor, Maria Bowler, has decided to give up swearing and the Internet, and I have decided to attempt to foil her. One might think that this came out of [...]
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Forget exoplanets
School-aged children the world over collectively tweeted “WTF” in November 2010, when two astronomers announced that they think there could be a previously undiscovered planet orbiting out in the distant reaches of the solar system, past Pluto. The astronomers, John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, published their paper “Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion [...]
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Thank you for voting
As you may or may not have heard, the Manitoban won its recent referendum, in which we asked students to increase our levy from $3 to $4 per student per term. To the 1,982 students who voted “yes,” the staff of the Manitoban would like to extend our most heartfelt “thank you.” We want to [...]