A select group of University of Manitoba students will get to ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange later today — almost exactly one year to the day they last had the honour of doing so. The university was invited to New York due to its reputation for launching enterprises based on business [...]

Photographer Ted Grant ventured south of the border to Grand Forks over the weekend for the Outlaws Sprint Car Series at River Cities Speedway. The 1/4 mile track is a huge draw for Manitobans in the summer, which makes up for 35% of the speedway’s business. In fact, the RV park is affectionately known as [...]

A high school journalist in the U.S. is being commended for his hardball questions aimed at Arizona State Senator John Huppenthal in a recent interview. Keith Wagner sat down with Senator Huppenthal to ask about the massive budget cuts to Career and Technical Education funding, in which Huppenthal voted to cut. The Senator is currently [...]

A cinematographer from Oxnard, CA is continuing his passion for homemade high altitude weather balloons equipped with cameras. Colin Rich recently launched his latest project, Pacific Star II, 125,000 feet above the earth, which automatically snapped photos and recorded video along the way. Watch: The balloon burst and landed several miles from where it was [...]

Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

Posted by Tyler Sutherland Most social media users, and the general population familiar with the Internet, will tell you the word ‘tweet’ is what a single message on Twitter is known as. The New York Times may beg to differ. In a memo to its staff last week, standards editor Phil Corbett said, “outside of [...]

Apple released what many have been speculating about for months — the newest refreshed iPhone 4. The tech giant’s CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday to make the announcement. Standing in front of thousands of developers and journalists from around the world, [...]

A confrontation between TV reporter Dan Noyes of ABC7 in San Francisco and the spokesperson for an area rehabilitation hospital became oddly physical at a recent meeting. Moyes and his camera crew visited the hospital to seek answers on allegations money from the patient gift fund was being used to buy catered meals and airline [...]

One grouchy meter maid in Santa Monica, California didn’t have any patience for a Los Angeles television station on Tuesday during a live car segment. KTLA reporter Gayle Anderson was handed multiple parking tickets while doing a live hit during the morning show. Although being told parking had been paid for, the public servant still [...]

If you frown over the price of coffee at Starbucks, wait’ll you hear this. A café in New York — appropriately called Café Grumpy — is serving up a cup of $12 coffee. The price tag is due to “handpicked Ethiopian beans,” which take a long time to process and develop. Watch:

Would you pay $35,000 per night for a hotel room? It’s hard to believe some people actually do shell out more than an average car is worth just for one night of luxury. If you have the money to blow spend, the Ty Warner Penthouse at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York may be [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz An Iowa teen had a unique idea when it came to choosing her prom dress — use gum wrappers. Elizabeth Rasmuson started collecting gum wrappers last August to make the dress, and a matching vest for her boyfriend. The one-of-a-kind garment was inspired after Elizabeth saw someone make a dress from [...]