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Wpg Free Press: Canada’s farmers are starting to do things differently to lower greenhouse-gas emissions

March 9, 2020 — 
Soil scientists Mario Tenuta helps explain

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Children sitting in a classroom.

A largely female teaching force is standing up for public education

March 4, 2020 — 
'For public education to remain public, it must be publicly funded, equally accessible and premised on values of active citizenship'

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CBC: Hospitals ramp up pandemic plans for COVID-19

February 28, 2020 — 
UM researcher Anand Kumar weighs in

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An artist' rendering shows a planned electric delivery van by Rivian. Amazon on Sept. 19, 2019, announced it ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian. The custom vans are scheduled to begin deliveries by 2021. (Rivian/Handout/TNS)

Op-ed: Driving toward a rechargeable world

February 25, 2020 — 
When it comes to the transit fleet in Winnipeg, the home of North America’s leading bus manufacturer, isn’t it time for the three levels of government to come together around a fully electrified transit fleet?

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CBC: In search of the perfect loaf: U of M researchers hone science behind healthier bread that tastes good

February 20, 2020 — 
Scientists use Canadian Light Source to study how lower salt content influences bread dough and micro-bubbles

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Wpg Free Press: Indigenous businesses soar

February 11, 2020 — 
UM experts are taking part

Canada Excellence Research Chair, Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (right), led the team that discovered the plant fossiles inside the Cold War-era ice samples

Discover: Skip the Gloom and Doom and Get Cracking on Solving Climate Change

February 10, 2020 — 
Discover magazine interviewed professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

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Looking down on fruits and vegetables at a grocery store. // Image from Pixabay

Wpg Free Press: Online Winnipeg atlas charts food deserts, ‘city-wide’ insecurity

February 6, 2020 — 
Food insecurity in Winnipeg, and health problems associated with it, have spread far beyond the city's poorest neighbourhoods, the map shows

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Postmedia: Indigenous achievers to be honoured at the Indspire Awards in Ottawa

February 5, 2020 — 
As an advocate for Indigenous women, law student and Manitoba Métis Federation member, Alana Robert has worked to fight gender-based violence

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Woman holding cellphone. // Image from Pixabay.

How social media is changing research and reactions to coronavirus outbreak

January 30, 2020 — 
Social media platforms have allowed the rapid exchange of information — and sometimes misinformation

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