Harleen Kaur Dhillon
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WUSA referendum votes to end partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
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The Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) announced the votes from the 2024 Responsible Partnerships and Investments referendum on Oct. 8. Results were posted on the Waterloo Undergraduate Students’ Union website. According to a press release from the WUSA website, 83.9 per cent of referendum voters said “yes” to the University of Waterloo ending its partnership…
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Laurier reveals investments with Boston Partners Global
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After a summer of rallies and protests, Wilfrid Laurier University disclosed a portion of their investment portfolio back in August. Of these investments, Expedia, Siemens and Airbus, three companies under the capital market company, Boston Parners Global Investors, work with companies that fund Israel. While Laurier has now done a partial disclosure of their investments,…
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Nexus 50th annual art exhibit displays work by graduating UW fine arts students
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Over the spring, The University of Waterloo Art Gallery hosted its 50th annual art exhibit, Nexus, for the first time in person since the COVID-19 pandemic in a renewed partnership with the Region of Waterloo. This was an opportunity for graduating fine arts students at the University of Waterloo to showcase their work to the…
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Flaherty defends G20 costs
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June 26 to 27 marks Canada’s turn to welcome leaders from the world’s most industrialized and emerging-market economies. However, since the announcement of Toronto as the G20’s host city, problems and criticism have plagued the summit whose theme is “Recovery and New Beginnings”. While the concerns of area residents and business owners have long been…
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Critiquing Canadian art
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If every mid-life crisis ended with the production of a mesmerizing piece of art highlighting the beauty of British Columbia’s natural landscape and receiving critical acclaim from a group of local artists, middle age wouldn’t seem so bad. For Kathleen Poste, a registered nurse at the Grand River Hospital, it was a mid-life crisis that…
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2009-10 men’s hockey preview
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Those who attend the 2009-10 Laurier men’s hockey games this season will see a very different team than the Hawks of recent memory. With three of the top six forwards lost to graduation, it is not expected that this team will score as prolifically as last year’s group that scored 120 times in 28 regular…
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Kitchener must boycott VANOC
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Since the awarding of the 2010 Olympics to Vancouver and Whistler, a growing network has resisted the social, cultural, and environmental injustices attributable to the Olympics. The torch is planned to pass through Kitchener – this implicitly supports the injustices and destruction occurring in the name of the Games. For these reasons, we demand that…
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Ignatieff speaks at campus rally
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“Go Hawks!” said Michael Ignatieff, leader of Canada’s official opposition, to a crowd of cheering students at the Young Liberals’ rally held in Wilf’s this past Saturday. Students from across southern Ontario crammed into the pub to hear the Liberal leader discuss the engagement of youth in Canadian politics and the current political climate. “Your…
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War crimes in the Gaza Strip
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On Sept. 15, the United Nations released a 575-page report condemning both the Israeli army as well as Palestinian militants for war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, in the Gaza Strip. A Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council is behind these latest findings, which build a strong case against the two groups. In the report,…
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The dark side of Canadian history
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SASKATOON (CUP) – Yves Engler has laid out a difficult task for himself. Although most Canadians believe Canada’s foreign policy is built on peacekeeping and resolving conflicts, Engler is out to disprove such notions. “I’m hoping that people learn to be more critical about what the Canadian government and Canadian institutions do around the world,”…
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