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Amazon vs curbside pick-up: Which is better?
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Amazon is no doubt one of humanity’s most convenient technologies of the past decade. You need a gallon of cod liver oil? Give it a day. How about a seven-foot cardboard cutout of Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk? Samuel the Haitian neurosurgeon will have that to you by morning. However, Amazon is an ethical nightmare. We…
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Which streaming service produces the best original content?
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As it becomes extremely common for streaming services to produce their own original content, it raises the question: whose are the best? To clarify, I only intend on talking about original films and series produced solely for the streaming service in question. I don’t care that New Girl is on Netflix. Disney+ is an outlier…
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What to do when you’re worth billions of dollars
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What can someone buy with $1 billion? Approximately 1,100 houses in Toronto. 140,000 years of tuition at WLU. A luxurious steak dinner, for three meals a day, for 9000 years. It’s hard to comprehend, but a billion dollars is an absurd amount of money. More than any individual can spend in a year, maybe a…
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Toronto shortlisted as a new Amazon HQ2 location
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Toronto was recently shortlisted by Amazon as a candidate site for the company’s massive new headquarters. Alongside Toronto — which was the only Canadian city shortlisted — there are 19 US cities, including Austin, Boston, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Over 200 cities began vying to be selected when last year, the e-commerce giant Amazon issued…
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College strike results in a stressful end of semester for students
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After five long weeks, the strike at Conestoga College has finally ended. Students have returned to class and faculty have resumed their posts as a result of a back-to-work legislation mandated by the provincial government. As of the official conclusion of the strike, the union and council were in the process of selecting a…
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Self-care is becoming too oversimplified
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As we transition into the colder months, I’ve noticed an increase in the amount of Buzzfeed articles and Tumblr posts that are shared about self-care. Ways that people can tackle the winter blues and combat their mental health issues are commonly reduced down to beauty items and junk food that you can buy at…
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College students and faculty are sent back to work by Provincial Government
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Students and faculty at Ontario’s 24 public college’s are now back in class after the provincial government passed the back-to-work legislation this past Sunday. Faculty were to report to work on Monday in order to revise their courses and prepare for the remainder of the semester, while students were able to return to their normal…
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