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Are the Ontario NDP’s TikToks effective?
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Youth voter turnout has been on the decline since the 1990s. Aside from 2015 and 2019, the first two times Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected, almost every election since the 90s has brought fewer and fewer young people to the polls. This is clearly not a new issue, but since the new year, the…
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Police killing renews calls to defund police in KW
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On Friday, Feb. 23, protestors gathered in front of Waterloo Regional Police Services headquarters in solidarity with Nicholas Nembhard, a schizophrenic Black man who was killed by an officer just days earlier. According to the Special Investigations Unit, which is responsible for investigating police-involved deaths, injuries, and shootings in Ontario, WRPS were called to a…
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PHWL breaks two records in its first week
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On Jan. 5, the Professional Women’s Hockey League set a world record for the most attended professional women’s hockey game less than a week after starting its first season ever. More than 13,000 fans were in the stands of the Xcel Energy Centre in Minnesota for their home-opener against the Montreal team. The league also…
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The Blue Ribbon Panel: The financial health of Ontario’s universities
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Laurier — like everyone and everything else in this province, it seems — is struggling financially. Not just Laurier, but the financial sustainability of post-secondary institutions in general is “at serious risk,” according to a panel of experts. On Nov. 15, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Postsecondary Education Financial Sustainability released a report making recommendations…
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