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Communication and Confidence: Advice from an Adult Film Star
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It is cold, frigid February. What a else could that signal but romance? Ah, yes, it is the season of love. It is a time when those of us with partners plan elaborate gestures of love, and those of us without eat a lot of Ben & Jerry’s while watching Moonstruck four times in a…
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2024-25 STUDENT PUBLICATION ELECTIONS: CANDIDATE PLATFORMS
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President, Publisher and Chair Candidates Thea Biallas Hi, my name is Thea Biallas, and my passion is drawing psychedelic art. Outside of my passion, I am in my final year at Laurier for Communication Studies with Leadership as my Option, and Spanish as my Minor. Not only do I study how to be an effective…
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“De-influencing” and me: becoming an educated consumer in the age of SHEIN
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Fast fashion companies like SHEIN also contribute to climate change through their unethical business practices. “There are unethical business practices for the people who make it. The resources they consume, even how it’s being made. They take the ideas of independent artists, take credit for their work and capitalize off it. There’s a lot of…
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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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Exposing our “GUTS”
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On Sept. 8, 2023, gen z musician Olivia Rodrigo’s second album GUTS was released around the globe to widespread praise. Labeled formally as a pop album, GUTS transcends the genre by incorporating pop rock and alternative touches throughout its runtime. Rodrigo has “certainly found a way to be present in the mainstream in a way…
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History of The Cord
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On Sept. 23, 1926, the College Cord published its first issue as a campus newspaper for the students at Waterloo College. Over many years, Waterloo College eventually transformed into the academic institution we know today, Wilfrid Laurier University. Through these developmental years, as Laurier saw changes in its name, educational affiliation and culture, the campus…
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Love, or the lack thereof
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Media, corporations and nosy relatives alike tend to portray love (specifically the romantic kind) as a necessity. But there’s less consensus on what it actually is or which qualities make love worthwhile. Haddaway raised the question in his 1993 hit What is Love, and we’ve been wondering since. According to Justin Cavallo, associate professor of…
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Artificially artistic? The rise of A.I. illustration
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You may be aware of the recent innovation known as A.I. art. There are dozens of companies and websites showing off this fascinating technology, which can generate surprisingly accurate and complex images with specific directions. The media has largely portrayed this technology as a fun and exciting novelty. However, upon further inspection, A.I. has been…
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Unpacking Trauma and Mental Health
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As human beings, we go through life experiencing everything as a blur. One of the fascinating parts of humanity is looking into how certain negative and traumatic experiences can impact someone’s health and their lives without their direct knowledge. Although trauma is a nuanced and complicated word that can entail a wide range of definitions,…
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Canada’s increased immigration targets: great for labour, not so good for housing
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Last year, Canada broke its annual immigration record with 405,000 newcomers. The nation will continue to break this record until at least 2025. According to a plan revealed by Sean Fraser, the Canadian minister of immigration, Canada aims to welcome 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025. The catalyst for…
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