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March 16, 2011
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Suspicious Person Location: Library Reported: Mar. 8, 2011 @ 6:54 p.m. A complaint was received about a suspicious male in the Library on the fifth floor. He was described as a strange older man, brown skinned (no age given) sitting near girls and staring at them and then moving on to another group once they…
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World in brief: March 16, 2011
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JERUSALEM, Israel The Israeli military has deemed the murder of a family a terror attack, after two parents and three children were found dead in their Itamar home. Although no suspects have been found, authorities believe multiple persons are responsible as both guns and knives were used as murder weapons. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Islanders remains repatriated from London museum
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After a year and half of consultations between London’s National History Museum (NHM) and the Torres Strait Islanders in Australia, another repatriation of human remains from the U.K. to the Torres Strait community commenced on Mar. 9. This event marks the second and largest act of repatriation the NHM has undertaken. It acknowledges its desire…
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CIGI event questions merits of globalization
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On Mar. 9, the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) held a presentation concerning the changing face of globalization. Jorge Heine of Wilfrid Laurier University, William Coleman, chairman of globalization and public policy at CIGI and award winning essay and novelist John Ralston Saul discussed their book, The Dark Side of Globalization. Heine took the…
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Mar 9, 2011
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Alarm Location: Residence Reported: Feb. 28, 2011 @ 2:23 a.m. Waterloo Fire Department and Special Constable Service responded to a Fire Alarm at a residence. It was discovered that people cooking in suite #404 had set off the smoke detector. Station was reset and the Fire Captain gave the okay for the students to re-enter…
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Mar 9, 2011
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I’m a former print girl so I come with dead trees.” —Shelley Ambrose Co-publisher of The Walrus re: bringing notes instead of slides to her TED talk “I was creating my own realty. I was creating what I believed was possible and that’s why I believe I was successful.” —Vicki Keith, marathon swimmer who holds…
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World in brief: March 9, 2011
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa There has been rapid rise of acidic water streaming from abandoned mines running for kilometers underneath Johannesburg. Toxic liquid has built up in mine shafts for over a century, and will start to empty into low–lying areas of the city most common to tourists, by early 2012. Water with a low pH…
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The detriments of foreign food aid
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“I don’t want your money for the people of Bolivia if it’s for charity, that’s disrespectful.” This surprising statement came from lead financial officer of MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) Gerhard Pries last Tuesday night during his presentation for International Week on the harmful effects of food aid. “My work,” Pries said, “is to prove…
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A new Canadian identity
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“The whole issue of how we perceive ourselves is translated through the eye of the camera. The question of how images really appear to us in many ways always fades into the archives of our mind,” Lloyd Axworthy explained, appearing at Wilfrid Laurier University this past Saturday. The event was orchestrated as the final instalment…
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Mar 2, 2011
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When I came here in the late 90s we were approaching Y2K and at that time everyone was concerned about the world coming to an end. Of course it didn’t…” —VP student affairs David McMurray Re: The meal card in place before the OneCard, which would have apparently not worked after Jan. 1, 2000 “I…
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