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Tree planting made me a different person
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As I sit here and write this article from the comfort of my warm apartment, I can’t help but long for the summer nights I spent living in a tent. For the last two years, I have spent my summers working as a tree planter in the Northern Canadian bush. I’d pack up my life…
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Laurier partners with CPAC to host Junior Ball Stars tournament
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On the weekend of April 28 to 29, Wilfrid Laurier University’s men’s basketball team and Sun Life Financial Centre for Physically Active Communities (CPAC) hosted the second annual Junior Ball Stars tournament at the Laurier Athletic Complex. 500 elementary school kids between grades four and six from 16 different school within the Waterloo Region District…
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Beers and the man with the van
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Features Editor Mitchell Consky meets the local ex-military, zombie survival trainer, who sleeps in a 1995 GMC Vandura
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The life cycle of a meme
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Like it or not, memes have cultural significance within our present society. They influence discourse, frame ways of thinking and nestle their ways into our online world like parasites. We’ve all seen one, on platforms like Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook or been sent one by a friend. We have to accept that they hold a…
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