Bronte Behling
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Students bring awareness on Laurier’s waterloo campus
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Among the many groups on campus working to draw awareness to important issues, the Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 902 and the Wilfrid Laurier University Palestinian Justice Club are two that demonstrate the power student voices can have. PSAC 902 is a union group that represents graduate teaching assistants at Laurier. The organization collaborates…
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Editor’s note: My time at The Cord
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Here we are: the last issue of the year. Since July, I have been aware that April will come sooner than I expect and I will have to say goodbye to the organization I have been a part of for four years. Being editor-in-chief of The Cord has been the biggest challenge I have ever…
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Ryan Jobby wins Students’ Union presidency election
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The 2025 Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union election concluded at Wilf’s restaurant on the Waterloo campus at 9 p.m. on Jan. 30. With a student turnout of 2, 815 or 12.4 per cent, Ryan Jobby won his bid for presidency and chief executive officer with 1,329 votes against Rogan Wawryk’s 999 votes. All three referendum…
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Creating a toolbox of voting resources
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On Jan. 6, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Parliament would be suspended until March 24 as he resigned from his position of prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. With a federal election due this year, eligible voters across the country will be returning to the polls. However, voting turnout across…
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Editor’s Note: The women in our lives
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On March 8, International Women’s Day will be celebrated across Canada. This year, the Government of Canada’s theme for the celebration is “Strength in every story.” When I learned what this year’s theme would be, it got me thinking about the women in my life who have gotten to where they are today through unique…
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The enduring power and importance of poetry
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I will preface this by saying I was once quite anti-poetry. Having grown up only reading it when I was required to for various English classes, I believed it to be dense and frustrating to interpret. This was only further confirmed by the time I was forced to write a Shakesperean sonnet in tenth grade. No, I…
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Editor’s Note: Is this the season of love?
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It’s the season of love — or is it? While Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day, I know that many are likely not exactly feeling in the spirit of the holiday. After the inauguration of American President Donald J. Trump, the world has felt different. Since being inaugurated on Jan. 20 of this year, President Trump…
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Erasing Frankenstein: Erasure poetry and examining incarceration
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This article was cross-published with the Community Edition. Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, A Public Humanities Prison Arts Project, edited by Elizabeth Effinger, is a collection of erasure poems formulated from pages of Mary Shelly’s 1818 novel Frankenstein and essays on the project’s conception and execution. Each erasure poem in the text’s I or Us…
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35th anniversary of a tragedy: Remembering those lost in the Montreal massacre
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Dec. 6 marked the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique tragedy, or Montreal massacre. On this day in 1989, gunman Marc Lépine entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal’s École Polytechnique university, separated the men and women, and killed 14 women in a shooting rampage. Thirteen other individuals were wounded. The names of the…
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Editor’s Note: So, where are the jobs?
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According to an analysis released by Statistics Canada early in December, businesses that expect their number of vacancies to increase make up 4.6 per cent of all businesses in the country and are led by those that fit into health care and social assistance sectors at 8.3 per cent. This, for someone who graduated…
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