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The effects of 2000’s diet culture lingers today
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Almost every magazine cover in the 2000s showed thin models with bold fonts cheering on the next fad diet that will guarantee the fastest way to lose weight. How to get a celebrity body, the perfect beach body and the revenge body. Diet culture had women tangled in its fingers. A notable and notorious force…
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Editorial: How I survived my first year at Laurier
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“I’m so lucky we all lived through who we were to become who we are.” – Neil Hilborn. When I graduated high school, I’d already been mentally checked out of the place for months. My heart was in the future and I looked ahead at Laurier starry eyed, my mouth watering. I had no idea…
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Editorial: No one’s ever always right
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Only a couple of weeks ago, one of my favourite active authors released his newest novel. To say I was excited was an understatement—the primitive, whiteboard countdown on my bedroom wall supports this. For your sake, I will not divulge the name of the author or the novel in question. I still strongly believe his…
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Editorial: What the hell am I doing here?
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I spent the entirety of the lecture fiddling with the stray end of a stitch on the bulb of my trimmed scalp. This was my distraction. It was an hour-long recorded lecture divided into four parts. Believe it or not, I was excited to start attending classes. I was thrilled to take notes and have…
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Editorial: The race to the first COVID-19 vaccine
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After nine months of COVID-19 spreading around the world, Russia claims it has achieved the unbelievable by developing a COVID-19 vaccine (called ”Sputnik V”) for civilian use. Earlier in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced their success in vaccine development and approval for production to begin by the end of the month. However, this approval…
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Editorial: Making the most of our time at Laurier
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As I enter fourth year, and hopefully my last, I prepare for another awesome year at Laurier but one not like the others. Every year has had challenges but nothing has been as challenging as a worldwide pandemic. When challenges like this arise, I’ve learned how to overcome the big obstacles and look at the…
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Editorial: The therapy of a side-hustle
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In the midst of balancing three jobs, a volunteer placement, and four courses, I’ve decided to allocate the remaining ten minutes of my week to a side hustle. You may or may not be experiencing whiplash due to aggressively shaking your head in disbelief at this point. However, conditioning and molding polymer clay into earrings…
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Editorial: All feelings are valid
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Feelings suck. There I said it. I really hate having feelings. If I was super into astrology I would probably say that I feel feelings so intensely because I am a Pisces. But everyone has feelings, and everyone must learn how to navigate through life with their feelings. Something I noticed, more so this year,…
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Editorial: Is it too late to talk musical physics?
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Damn. No idea what to write about. But this is already super late (hopefully Emily won’t fire me) so it seems as good a time as any to let my mind wander and type whatever I’m thinking. If I’m lucky, this may turn into a transcript of an interesting internal dialogue or monologue about something.…
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Editorial: It’s okay to love your friends
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At this time of year, it seems as though everyone is fixated on finding somebody to love. The world around us makes us feel as though finding your ‘person’ is a necessary thing — or at least that’s what I thought, anyway. Lately, I’ve realized that I have plenty of people around me to love.…
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