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UDST Signs Agreement to Support Sponsored Students

The University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services to expand access to higher education [...] The post UDST Signs Agreement to Support Sponsored Students appeared first on Marhaba Qatar .

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The devil you know

The debut book from Pamela Colloff, a Texas-based investigative reporter for ProPublica and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, complicates romantic notions of the scam artist and invites…

  • Pamela Colloff's "Catch the Devil" focuses on Paul Skalnik, a serial con man and child molester.
  • Skalnik's cunning was due to systemic flaws, not intelligence.
  • The book highlights systemic issues like prosecutorial misconduct and capital punishment.

Beware invasive, ‘frightening’ waterhemp

There’s a threat lurking on the edge of Manitoba farmers’ fields this fall that’s even scarier than the escalating trade war with their biggest customer. Provincial extension advisers are warning […]

  • Tall waterhemp threatens Manitoba crops, could outgrow harvests
  • Weed spreads rapidly, germinates late in season, hard to identify
  • Farmers advised to prevent spread through equipment cleaning and disposal

Of frogs, roses, kings and a Great Lake

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, as the saying goes. Basically, if you change something’s name, you don’t actually change the nature of the thing. That […]

  • President attempted to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
  • Move criticized for lacking substance and purpose
  • Renaming dismissed as symbol of personal vanity

Letters, Aug. 29

Lake fever Re: Lake Ontario ‘then, now and always’ (Aug. 28) Some people are stupid and uninformed and uneducated about history, as well as lacking in empathy and respect for […]

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  • Premier Wab Kinew praised for mandatory physical education

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