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Canadian Hearing Services awarded 29 scholarships for the year 2025-2026
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Lisa Flowers/CHS scholarship student Canada Hearing Services (CHS) awarded 29 scholarships to deaf and hard-of-hearing students across Canada on Sept. 10 to support their post-secondary education. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students face numerous challenges in post-secondary institutions, including difficulty hearing in lectures, the need to lip-read while simultaneously taking notes, additional study time to review notetakers’…
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Laurier Women’s Basketball Fall to Guelph in Tough Match
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The Laurier women’s basketball team hosted the Guelph Gryphons in their second and final meeting of the regular season. The Hawks entered the game with three losses and a single win after defeating the Toronto Varsity Blues, while Guelph was off to a perfect start in the season with two wins. Both teams faced off…
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Laurier men’s basketball best Guelph in overtime
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The Guelph Gryphons visited the Laurier men’s basketball team for the second meeting of the regular season. The teams played under a week prior, where Laurier held on 92-91 for the victory. In the 2021-2022 season, the Highway 7 rivalry was split with each team taking a win in rather close games. The first meeting…
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Golden Hawks football season comes to an end following 31-18 playoff loss to Guelph
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Connor Carusello and the Golden Hawks offense just didn’t have enough this past Saturday as the Guelph Gryphons jumped out to an early 17-0 lead and Laurier saw their 2021 football season come to an end with a 31-18 loss against the Gryphons in the OUA West quarterfinals. Coach Michael Faulds and the Laurier Golden…
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“A Talk with Miss J.”: Celebrity comes to University of Guelph event for Black History Month
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Runway coach, model and reality television personality, Miss J. Alexander, delivered a keynote address, “A Talk with Miss J.” on the University of Guelph’s campus on Monday, March 2nd. University of Guelph’s Cultural Diversity Office and Gender and Sexual Diversity Office, in collaboration with Laurier’s Student Affairs and Centre for Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion…
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“Disappointing” loss for Laurier men’s football season
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The Wilfrid Laurier University men’s football team had their season come to an end early Friday afternoon following a 22-10 defeat against the Carleton Ravens. In what was Laurier’s annual “School Day” game, the Golden Hawks had great support with over 4,200 people cheering them on, many of which were elementary school kids. Despite both…
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Criminal past revealed in University of Guelph elections
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Before becoming the University of Guelph’s Central Student Association’s (CSA) local affairs commissioner and candidate for president, Jeremiah Rojas was a student at Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as a don at Little House residence and Waterloo College Hall. During his time as a don, there were multiple break-ins at WCH over the 2012-13 winter…
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The dire state of the bee population and why it matters
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The world is ending. Fish are being overfished; the polar ice caps are melting; bees are dying; and it’s all our fault. But what can we really do about this besides raise awareness? “Pollinator habitat is one of the most important things out there right now,” said Glen Ackroyd, owner of Acroyd Honey, a local…
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Women’s Hockey loses back-to-back games against Guelph and U of T
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The Laurier Golden Hawks had a busy weekend of hockey playing host to the Guelph Gryphons and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The weekend began on a sour note as the Hawks dropped a 4-1 contest Saturday night to the Gryphons with the Hawk’s lone goal coming from first-year Emily Woodhouse. “I wasn’t really…
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Unsigned: Female representation in the new leaders of Laurier
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In the past few months, Laurier has elected a new president and a new chancellor — both of whom are female. It seems, thus far, that no one seems to be too interested in this fact. From what we’ve seen, there has been no reaction from the greater Laurier community. It’s like any other new…
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