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Mo bros. unite!
Movember has arrived and there are many good reasons to participate: first and obviously foremost, it’s for a good cause.
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Can an app a day keep the doctor away?
The relationship between healthy living and technology is “a-changing”, as Bob Dylan might put it.
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Heat on the horizon
By the year 2047, the coldest yearly temperatures may be warmer than the hottest yearly temperatures we experience now - according to a recent report released in the online journal Nature.
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Public invited to CEC’s hydro project hearings
There’s a rosy picture painted on the PowerSmart building at Portage and St. James, but it may not tell the whole story of the impact of hydroelectric power development – despite it being a renewable energy industry.
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The media is the message
Have you ever used the term ‘objectification’ to describe how women are portrayed in perfume ads or beer commercials? Has a magazine cover made you stop and wonder why our society remains infatuated with unattainable beauty and thinness? Do you consider yourself versed in media literacy?
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Revealing truths through stories
Don’t miss out on An Evening with Joseph Boyden and Katherena Vermette this Friday, October 18 at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain on 340 Provencher Blvd.
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Green! Action! Compost!
The Green Action Centre is a Winnipeg-based registered non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to champion green living.
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Manitoba Government helping to pay off 3,700 student loans
This year the province of Manitoba is putting 10.5 million dollars into the MB Bursary Loan Remission Program, which will go towards reducing the loans of 3,700 students.
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Sweaters for Syria
Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) Winnipeg is asking for sweater donations to send all the way to Syrian refugees who reside in the ever-expanding Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
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Moving forward by looking back
Monday, October 7 marked the 250 year anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and the Idle No More movement stepped back into the public consciousness with a day of action to commemorate the historical event with gatherings all across Canada and around the world.
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Putting Redman in a seven-foot deep hole
New York’s Cey Adams, founding Creative Director of Def Jam Records, spoke in the University of Winnipeg’s Riddell cafeteria on Thursday, October 3, 2013 as part of the UWSA's Freestyle Festival. I enjoyed an evening of colourful tales of rappers from the 1980s and early 1990s, artists whom Adams had worked or rubbed shoulders with during his tenure at Def Jam.
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UWSA kicking political process into high gear
It is time for students to exercise their voting rights.
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Protest as if your life depends on it
China’s announcement that, beginning in November of this year, forced organ harvesting will begin disappearing from the country is “no cause for celebration”, according to Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH).
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The green in between
Green space: unnatural nature. Serving the purpose of efficiency, urban planning and design allow dense populations to access everything they need, or need to do, in a timely fashion – the city. The way it looks correlates to the way its infrastructure gets organized around its most vigorous economic activity – the cityscape.
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Shrinking wetlands
One of the largest, if not the largest green space in Winnipeg is being threatened by a new development. The Parker Wetlands between McGillivray Boulevard and Pembina Highway have been chosen as the route for the second line of rapid transit to be built once the city secures funding.
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Iconic city
From Portage and Main to Salisbury House and Guy Maddin, Winnipeg has many iconic people and places - and Iconnipeg aims to capture that essence.
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Bike raves, lanes and by-laws
The city of Winnipeg has recently been trying to improve its relationship with local cyclists – a passionate bunch to say the least. The Uniter sat down with some this week to get the scoop on the positives and negatives of cycling in the city.
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Choose leather, change the world for the better
Nestled in the back of Thom Bargen Coffee & Tea is Wilder Dry Goods, an inviting storefront and workshop specializing in beautiful, handmade leather products.
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Transmission permission?
There are many opponents of Manitoba Hydro’s controversial Bipole III transmission line project, a 1300 km right-of-way that would run from Gillam towards The Pas and then down the west side of Lake Manitoba and back to Winnipeg.
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Implementation the key for Bill 18
On September 13, Bill 18, an anti-bullying legislation also known as the Public Schools Amendment Act, was passed in Manitoba Parliament.