To play or not to play
Canada has the third largest video game industry in the world after the United States and Japan, and is expected to continue growing A new generation of “gamers” now...
New Zealand a model for cigarette ban
On May 24, New Zealand announced a 40 per cent hike in taxes on tobacco and will impose restrictions, like hiding cigarettes behind counters, that will attempt to force the...
Upgrade from LORIS desperatley needed
The Laurier Online Registration Information System, otherwise known as LORIS, is perennially the bane of most Laurier students’ existence It has become almost a rite of passage...
Laurier needs to replace Access Copyright
Last Thursday, Wilfrid Laurier University decided to move forward in signing the Access Copyright agreement they had with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada...
From the Editor: The Cord’s new online presence
Anyone who’s read a newspaper in the last five years, knows that the future of media is on the Internet Yes, I realize the irony in that statement It seems these days you...
You know what yanks my Cord…
Parents who leave their children unsupervised in public areas where they misbehave and cause trouble, and the parents do nothing to reprimand their kids It’s not bad parenting...
Voice of the future largely absent at Congress 2012
With the Congress 2012 conference of Humanities and Social Sciences well underway, it’s apparent that invitations to students got lost in the mail Congress is an excellent...
Peaceful protests more likely to yield results in Quebec demonstrations
Recently in modern culture, it seems that it is only a matter of time before a peaceful protest turns violent Whether this violence is initiated by police or protestors, the end...
Up against the wall
Like any other student journalist in Canada, I can spend hours upon hours reading articles on The Globe and Mail’s website, primarily because I have no money to subscribe to a...
Obama’s support for marriage equality does little for gay rights
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few weeks, you will have no doubt heard of President Barack Obama announcing his support of marriage equality While I have...