Category: Local

Waterloo’s future

Last Sunday, over 1,000 residents of Waterloo attended the Mayor and Council’s Annual New Year’s Levee at RIM Park The mayor and the city council looked back over a year of...

Sports expo takes over Uptown

Despite the cold temperatures, hundreds of Waterloo locals headed outdoors on Saturday afternoon to enjoy the winter activities presented by the first ever Winter Sports Expo,...

KW in brief: Jan. 13, 2010

Referendum question confuses council A referendum question posed by a group of private citizens concerning the possibility of amalgamating Waterloo and Kitchener was presented to...

KW in brief: Jan. 6, 2010

Crowd forms as DriveTest strike comes to an end Nearly 100 people lined up to book their driving tests on Monday in Kitchener It was the first day that the DriveTest employees...

Student groups scrutinize wards

Waterloo’s mayor and council received a letter last month addressing concerns that students are under-represented as a result of the current ward boundaries which divide the...

Providing warm meals on cold days

We give We cook We care On Dec 4, a group of eight Laurier students took this slogan to St John’s Kitchen in Kitchener to provide meals to approximately 250 people “I had...

Election candidate announced

On Dec 17, Waterloo city councillor Jan d’Ailly announced that he will be running for mayor in the 2010 municipal election Currently d’Ailly is councillor for Ward 6 which...

Lighting up the season

On Saturday evening, the annual Wonders of Winter festival of lights held its opening ceremony in Waterloo Park The ceremony began with the Waterloo Concert Band playing...