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Building Belonging: Waterloo Launches Bold Anti-Hate Initiative
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The Region of Waterloo launched its “We All Belong Here” campaign on October 23, 2025, as a collective effort to combat hate-based crimes within the region and promote a sense of belonging within the local community. The initiative comes at a time when the region has been grappling with some of the highest rates of reported hate crimes in…
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Waterloo launching new campaign to warn against sex trafficking
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It Happens Here, a new campaign surrounding the topic of human trafficking in the Waterloo region, is drawing attention to the disturbing reality that human trafficking isn’t quite as far from home as many people believe. The project aims to dispel the myth that human trafficking is something that only happens elsewhere and to provide…
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Local band tackles Kitchener-Waterloo music scene
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Talented new bands are making their way into my Apple Music library, and not all of them come from faraway places. No Service is an innovative rock band from Kitchener that formed in April 2018, and it consists of five members: Alex, Sam, Max, Evan and Keegan. Alex Hobson sings and plays the guitar, Sam…
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Tarique Plummer wins president by majority vote
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Tarique Plummer has been elected as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Students’ Union president for the 2018-19 term. Plummer was officially announced as president on Feb. 1 at the #LaurierVotes Results Night at Wilf’s. Plummer claimed the position over Ali Saghari, Ryley Fletcher and Idris Omar Hassan with 52.35 per cent of the votes. Despite four candidates…
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Getting to know Death Party Playground
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“A wild group of hellion velvet ravens influenced by a rising 1988 Bruce Willis and the innocent contractors who lost their lives working on the Death Star.” That’s how a local band, Death Party Playground, is described on their website. It’s not a description you often see with an upcoming band — there’s no forced…
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