November 30, 2012 12:25 am
The organization, which includes Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, held a conference in St. John's on Nov. 27 to highlight the results of projects that have been undertaken.
September 5, 2012 4:42 pm
Along with a team of 17 researchers, Diane Orihel, a PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences, has spent the past two years analyzing existing data on blue-green algae, which contain high levels of nutrients including cyanobacteria — known to produce harmful toxins.
April 16, 2012 12:27 pm
Do you think that you would recognize genetically modified food if you saw them? Roughly 70 per cent of the processed food sold in Canada contains at least one GM ingredient.
March 9, 2012 5:36 pm
A blast of energetic particles from the sun collided with Earth early on March 8, causing disruptions in all four of the University of Saskatchewan’s SuperDARN radars.
March 7, 2012 4:04 pm
UBC is a month away from opening a $27-million biomass power plant with Nexterra Systems Corp., a local green-tech company. Two of Nexterra’s American projects have ended in failure. Is UBC headed down the same path?
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Edmonton filmmaker strives for horror film glory in Canadian competition
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.