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BBM extends to all platforms
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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) appears to have made a comeback, as the mobile messaging system became available to iPhone and Android users last Monday. The app had 6 million pre-registrations go through and saw over ten million downloads in its first 24 hours. “It was pretty thrilling to see those numbers,” said Victoria Berry, the communications…
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CIGI talk looks back on climate change narratives
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“We’re long past the days of denying climate change,” expressed Fred Kuntz, the vice president of public affairs at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI). “Each year the earth’s temperature increases, as does the attention given to the issue.” Kuntz shared these sentiments last week in his introduction to CIGI guest lecturer Mike…
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Quidditch jumps from fiction to the field
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“Finally, it’s here.” Nathan Boutilier said these words as he sat back and watched students from the University of Waterloo play Wilfrid Laurier University in a recreational sporting match. However, the game that Boutilier was admiring wasn’t your typical sport — it was Quidditch, a sport that requires broomsticks, “bludgers” and “golden snitches.” Emma Morrison, the…
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Waterloo Food Bank takes second in national competition
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The Food Bank of Waterloo Region was awarded the silver medal in the Great Canadian Food Fight, a cross-country food drive. In 48 hours, Waterloo competed against other regions in a fundraising competition, attempting to collect as many food and monetary donations as possible. This year, Waterloo Region raised $118,059 between Oct. 17 to 19…
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Pen pegged as health risk
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Waterloo inventor, Andrew Gardner, may have to reconsider his business plan. His latest invention, the Polar Pen, was a functional pen made up of a set of high-powered magnets that can be broken down and reassembled in seconds. With the addition of a rubber tip, the pen also functioned as stylus. The pen has already…
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Work orders issued to 173 King after fatal incident
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Following the events of the death of 23-year-old Nick Lalonde, the Ontario Ministry of Labour has issued stop work orders against the property management group through which he was employed. Lalonde was an employee of Central Construction and was installing masonry blocks on the twelfth floor of a student housing building at 173 King St..…
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Entrepreneurship considered for arts faculty
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Over the last six months, the dean of arts office has been developing a proposal for a new social entrepreneurship option for arts students, the first of its kind in Canada. Although not yet a certainty, if the proposal is passed, the program could be implemented by September of 2014. The proposal has the program…
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National anthem debated
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A new initiative, aiming to change and restore the original lyrics of Canada’s national anthem, O’Canada, has taken the country by storm. The project, called the Restore Our Anthem Campaign, was organized to promote a “gender neutral” version of Canada’s national anthem. The anthem Canada currently uses was actually rewritten in 1913, changing Robert Stanley…
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Zombies invade Uptown
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Waterloo was full of brain-eating, teeth-decaying, flesh-rotting monsters last Saturday, all in the spirit of the city’s annual Zombie Walk. Hosted in Waterloo Public Square, hundreds of zombie-decorated participants came together to march the streets of Waterloo just weeks before Halloween. The event has gained much popularity over the past few years and drew in…
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After hours crack-down in the Science building
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It seems that, at least for now, students are going to have to find space other than the science building to study late into the night on campus. In the past, students have been able to study in the building after lockdown hours, but over the past few weeks special constable services has begun to…
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