Vancouver Olympics: exploiting the exploited
With the Vancouver Olympics around the corner in 2010, there has been an increasing momentum in marketing efforts to create the buzz that will capture the attention of the...
Cord Staff
Reconsider Values
The current economic crisis has forced society into a pivotal place where the values that will follow us into a new era need to be affirmed In a time where the auto industry...
Students should be appreciated
Unspoken contention between Laurier students and Waterloo locals has surfaced again with April's Northdale Strategic Planning session The compiled results of the session propose...
Students promote local harvest
A group of students from Laurier are putting their love for the outdoors to good use this summer KW Urban Harvester is a group for students who want to garden, but don’t have...
CBC: Forging a future in the wake of cuts
CBC’s role in Canada Although Canada’s national public broadcaster, which was established over 70 years ago, is engrained in Canadian identity, the CBC struggles with an...
A re-evaluation of the Cord’s content
With media companies slashing jobs and cutting budgets drastically, the newspaper industry’s predicted doomsday seems more real than ever It appears that the “death of the...
World in Brief: May 20, 2009
PAKISTAN As of late April, the Taliban appeared to be making great territorial gains within Pakistan At one time, according to CNN, the militant group occupied territory only...