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Beating the odds conference inspires resilience in K-W students
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On Friday Feb. 10, the Beating The Odds conference was held in the Turret on the Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo campus. This event is dedicated to inspiring and educating black high school students in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge area to pursue post-secondary education. The conference was created 12 years ago by Laurier alumnus David Green,…
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Unsigned: Laurier community’s fast response to current events
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In the news the past few weeks, there have been many scary examples of intolerance around the world. From Trump’s Muslim ban to the mosque massacre in Quebec City, it’s a scary time for Laurier’s Muslim community. We can’t comment on what other schools did in response to these tragedies, but we were impressed with…
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Kitchener mourns victims of Quebec attack
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On Sunday Jan. 29 at 7:50 p.m. emergency responders received a frantic phone call from various individuals reporting an attack at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. The attack involved several gun shots, killing six men and putting five others in critical condition. The shooting took place in a mosque, where people of Muslim faith…
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Investigating the threat of Fentanyls
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Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. Like many opioids, the drug, with many variations of potency, has reached far beyond the boundaries of medical prescriptions. Unfortunately for students and the Kitchener-Waterloo community, these boundaries are unknown — potentially leading to a spike in overdose…
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Princess Cinema’s Quote-Along continues to draw crowd with Princess Bride
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It’s not every day you walk into a movie theatre to be greeted with a “Welcome to the Fire Swamp, watch out for the R.O.U.S.’s, but I don’t believe they exist.” On Thursday, Princess Cinemas and the “folkes” from the Royal Medieval Faire hosted a The Princess Bride quote-along (think sing-along with subtitles instead of…
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Rhapsody Barrel Bar is perhaps Kitchener’s chameleon restaurant
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Rhapsody Barrel Bar is an inconspicuous restaurant and music venue situated in the heart of downtown Kitchener. I describe the place as inconspicuous because it’s difficult to predict what this place can offer. I remember walking by and feeling confused. The restaurant is attached to a clothing store, hosts its own café at the front…
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The Captain’s Boil introduces K-W to a new twist on sea food
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A fundamental shift in preconceptions associated with dining out occurs inside of The Captain’s Boil, an award winning new restaurant chain now in uptown Waterloo. First, the customer is saddled with a cartoony plastic bib, decorated with a pirate’s bandana. Then, they are supplied with a pair of plastic gloves. The marketing urges one to…
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Kent Monkman paints controversial, yet timely art
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When you are first taking in one of Kent Monkman’s paintings, a thousand things race through your mind. The Cree-Irish artist, hailing from Manitoba, tackles a plethora of themes and smoothly blends them, creating a rather polarizing image. This oftentimes leaves the viewer feeling both overwhelmed and impacted, inevitably craving more of his work. The…
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K-W’s Tri-Con brings together nerds from all around
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On a superficial level, there’s a kind of sacrilege that lives in the cult-like environment of a convention. At THEMUSEUM for this weekend’s Tri-Con, Judge Dredd posed for photographs with an Ewok. A miniature stormtrooper resigned himself to kickflips in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, while a similarly disproportionate Iron Man created dissonant music by running…
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Waterloo local band gaining steady traction ahead of Maxwell’s show
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As we drove along in a car stuffed with tripods, lighting equipment and a couple camera cases, I glanced at my phone to review the message for directions. It told me to look out for a big sign that said “Creative Enterprise,” but no such sign existed — not much help when we were already…
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