Spending the Japanese New Year with community
After a prolonged break due to COVID-19, the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba (JCAM) hosted the Japanese New Year celebration, Oshogatsu, at the Manitoba Japanese…
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Shedding light on the emerging viral disease
Monkeypox, first identified in non-human primates in 1958, has become a global outbreak with over 50,000 cases worldwide. On Aug. 19, Manitoba Deputy Chief Provincial…
The devil’s tumour
Looney Tunes fans are probably familiar with Tasmanian devils. The rare and particularly feisty marsupial found exclusively on Tasmania, a small island-state located just south…
Reconnecting
It has been a while since I have seen my uncle. I’m hesitant to contact him because I feel less respectable, less worthy of his…
Worm cancer
In 2013, a Colombian man died of cancer – what makes this particular case unusual was that the cancer wasn’t his, but that of a…
Putting the eSports dispute to rest
Games are not art. Games are not sports. Games are games. They’re their own thing, and all this arguing over what else they might be betrays a secret anxiety as to whether they’re a pursuit worth spending time on. Private inferiority complexes don’t make a good foundation for aesthetic debates.
A new development in HIV treatment
Researchers have developed an antibody-like molecule which may help in the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The molecule, named eCD4-Ig, was designed to…
Local [Demo]Graphic
Founded in Winnipeg, Synonym Art Consultation aims to make art more accessible to the general public. Their latest attempt is an exhibition entitled [Demo]Graphic, installed…
Three zeros
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…
The Manitoban looks toward the coming months
Well folks, it’s that time of year again and, this being the last issue of the season, we here at the Manitoban thought it might…