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Forbes: Brookfield’s Bruce Flatt: Billionaire Toll Collector Of The 21st Century

May 4, 2017 — 
Bruce Flatt [B.Comm.(Hons.)/87], President & CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, is on the May 2017 cover of Forbes Magazine.

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Op-ed: Private MRIs won’t endanger health care

May 4, 2017 — 
"We can and should allow some privatization of MRI services. This will not imperil the soul of the Canadian health care"

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Canadian Business: Meet Canada’s next generation of software stars

May 3, 2017 — 
U of M alum Matthew Brzezinski, 24, Software Developer, ThinkBox Software Inc

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Op-ed: Are leaks in the public interest?

May 2, 2017 — 
It all depends says Professor Emeritus Paul Thomas

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CBC: From space mice to artificial intelligence: UM scientist, entrepreneur is breaking new ground

May 1, 2017 — 
Baran has completed a doctorate at the University of Manitoba, focusing on breast cancer research that uses safe and inexpensive microwave imaging.

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Wpg Free Press: Putting healthy smiles on the faces of refugee children

April 28, 2017 — 
April is oral-health month, the perfect time to celebrate your dental health.

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NY Times: Revisiting Nafta: The Stakes for Key Industries

April 27, 2017 — 
Economist Ryan Cardwell weighs in

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Wpg Free Press: Emission action needed or issues will get worse: climate change scientist

April 26, 2017 — 
The world is heating up — and much more quickly than expected, a recent Arctic research report states.

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Wpg Free Press: Ethicist challenges refusal to release health-care report

April 21, 2017 — 
Arthur Schafer is confused by the provincial government’s claim it doesn’t own the health-care sustainability information it paid KPMG $750,000 to gather.

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Op-ed: Personal health information must be protected

April 20, 2017 — 
Who decides what the public should know?

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