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Shawna Finnegan | Feb 27
Anything that restricts the number of calories you eats to a level lower than your body requires cannot be sustained long-term.
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Damian Purdy | Feb 21
Believe me, it is beautiful relief to lie prone, on the floor, detached and drooling, doing fuck-all, forever.
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The best way to say “I love you” may not be with a diamond.
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Leif Larsen | Feb 3
It is this belief that has packed our universities with aimless young people, while the trades lament that they do not have enough skilled professionals to satisfy demand.
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Kevin Doole | Jan 26
Social media is determining what the future of the web will look like, and the less that educators can learn to take part productively in these new, ultra-convenient technologies, the more they will slant toward a culture of zombie-like consumption of entertainment.
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Kevin Doole | Jan 13
The environment was here long before Copenhagen, Kyoto or conservatives were, and neither the laws of our industries nor the rules of our economies apply to it in any way.
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Noreen Mae Ritsema | Jan 5
Well, we can’t ask Chris McCandless what his search for realness revealed to him. He died alone four months into his Alaskan wilderness odyssey. It doesn’t get much more real than that.
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Kevin Schulz | Jan 5
If the intense media attention and the fevered buildup to the Team Canada selection news conference on Dec. 30 is of any indication, this tournament could be unlike any other in Canadian sports history.
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Kevin Schulz | 11/10/09
In many ways, this week’s feature on student health and well being is the most important project that I’ve ever had the privilege of being involved with. One of my goals entering this year as features editor was to use the section as a resource for the discussion of issues that shape and influence the lives of students at the University of Manitoba and beyond. In this edition of the Manitoban, we have pulled together a section that addresses a wide variety of such issues. In particular, I believe Ashley Gaboury’s piece on mental health helps fill a glaring void in the discussion of overall student well being and is an article that cannot be missed. Gaboury addresses a very...
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Shawna Finnegan | 11/10/09
With the health-care reform debate gearing up in the states, there has been a great deal of controversy over the current system of health insurance. Last month, a four-month old baby in Denver was refused health insurance because he was considered [too fat][1]. Despite being breast-fed and healthy in all respects, Rocky Mountain Health Plans deemed the boy, who is in the 99th percentile for height and weight, too great a risk to insure. According to current U.S. health insurance system, companies can refuse to insure individuals with a pre-existing condition — including obesity. Babies above the 95th percentile and adults with a body mass index (BMI) over 30 are almost always denied health insurance. Here is where the line...
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Kevin Doole | 11/4/09
The focus of the event marks a stark change compared with previous Days of Action. Most notably, it’s not all about students.
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Ben Poggemiller | 11/4/09
Is it possible for people to go two hours without drinking? I do not think so.
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Omar Al-Ramlawi | 10/23/09
On Oct. 17, Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, an advocate for human rights and peace in the Middle East, spoke at the Canadian Mennonite University. Finkelstein received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1988 and has lectured and taught about political theory and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is currently traveling the world speaking at conferences and giving lectures. The lecture itself lasted about 45 minutes, and then proceeded to a conversation-type event, where Finkelstein was sitting at a table with a moderator and two empty chairs for anyone in the audience who wanted to come and converse with him to sit in. After some encouragement from my friend and the incredibly energetic team of Canadians for Justice and Peace in...
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Damian Purdy | 10/12/09
Gravity alone bears responsibility for our most brutal and disorienting experiences.
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Leif Larsen | 10/7/09
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 feuds to sexual intercourse between a man and a horse before finally settling on Wayne Gretzky. Yes, Gretzky, the hero of Brampton, Ontario, saviour of the Oilers, “the great one” and the current focus of Smith’s adoration. Smith began his story about Gretzky with a prologue summarizing his disappointment with his underperforming movie, Zach and Miri Make a Porno, and the realization that it is disingenuous making movies about struggling 20-somethings while pushing 40 and living in an LA mansion. Riddled with despair over potentially loosing...