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OPINION

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I spent 24 hours in a bagel shop. Here’s what I learned.

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The longest top-row word that can be typed on a typewriter is 'rupturewort', a type of plant, and Peru is the only country that can be typed on one row of a keyboard.

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SPORTS

Tennis matchmaking app fosters love of the game

Meet Rankd, the tennis matchmaking app for lovers of the game. Rankd Tennis North America aims to create matches for tennis players.

ARTS

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For Ottawa-based abstract artist Emma Maddock, art is all about presenting her unique reflections to the world. She draws and paints abstract art pieces...

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Feminism now and then

Feminism now and then By Courtney Hurley  “Does anybody remember that it was not only legal but also very, very good business practice to not grant credit to women?” asked Leslie R. Wolfe, the keynote speaker at the Women’s Rights on the Political Agenda Conference which took place Oct. 19 at the University of Ottawa.

If rocks could talk

 

More than 1,000 people attended events around Ottawa on Geoheritage Day (Photo: Adam Dietrich)

 

A grave lecture series

 

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Oct. 19-24: Africa week at Carleton

To commemorate its ties with Africa and help launch the new Institute of African Studies, Carleton hosted African events and activities from Oct. 19-24.

Monday: Groups set up display tables showcasing Carleton’s and Canada’s ties with the African community, both at home and abroad. The Carleton music department’s West African rhythm group gave students a musical taste of African culture with a performance in the Unicentre’s Galleria.

Screening the invisible

Saren Oliver, Bit Kernodle and the rest of the Invisible Children team are on a mission: to spread the word about Uganda’s child soldiers and their solution to the problem across Canada.
 
They are on a cross-country tour speaking at schools, churches and community centres about the issue, and their bill in the United States congress calling for the arrest and detainment of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony.
 

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