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What has Wilfie done for you?

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, has many tributes to him across the country; high schools, avenues and electoral districts are all named after him Then...

Laurier wish list

With a new school year upon us, The Cord has compiled a list of things we would like to see accomplished over the next eight months Our wishes reflect what we, as students, feel...

How power can corrupt

There always seem to be people who, when acceding to just a little power, become absolutely monstrous We have seen it in celebrities of all colours, political figures all along...

From the archives: 1968

The rate at which the new “Coke” machines have been taking in money without dispensing drinks in return should result in the accumulation of funds of such magnitude that it...

From the Editor

I believe the media should be an outlet where people can interact, express themselves and learn from each other I hope to foster this sense of campus discourse within the new...

Welcome to WLU Frosh: Meet the System

If you are ambitious, intelligent, mature, resourceful and looking for a good education, you have come to the wrong place University is not for you The experience of being broken...

Cultural Relativism is irrelevant

Oppression and human rights abuses should not be accepted under the guise of cultural differences The notion that cruelty and oppression should not be allowed under the blanket...

Waterloo bans skateboarders

I don’t care for skateboarding; rolling around on a wooden board, attempting to defy gravity with tricks, has never appealed to me Neither does the “Bell for Kepler”...