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Golden Hawk Taye Donald’s reign of the 2023-2024 basketball season
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Laurier is no stranger to impressive student-athletes adorning the purple and gold. However, sometimes, a notable Golden Hawk takes their league by storm. Taye Donald is a 6’2 third-year basketball guard who took a leap this past OUA season and became one of the best university players in the province. Following last season, where he…
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Laurier named top employer for sixth year
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Laurier chosen for Mediacorp Canada’s ‘Canada’s Top 100 Employers” list for employee environment Wilfrid Laurier University has been named one of Waterloo Area’s top employers for the sixth consecutive year. “I think this has a positive reflection for the university, as it demonstrates that we invest and care about our employees in the same way…
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Wilfrid Laurier University Mourns the passing of Rick Sterne
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The Laurier community mourns the passing of valued Brantford Board of Governors member Rick Sterne. An advocate for Brantford’s YMCA, Sterne was a Brantford LaunchPad mentor and supporter of the Brantford campus. He was also an active member of the Grand Valley Educational Society, Lansdowne Children’s Centre, Stedman Foundation and the Rotary Club of Brantford. …
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Remembrance Day returns to Waterloo Region
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11:00 a.m. on Nov. 11 marks the formal ending of the First World War. With heavy hearts, we remember the soldiers that fought for our freedom 105 years ago. On Nov. 11, wear a poppy with pride, have a moment of silence or visit a local cenotaph to pay your respects. The Royal Canadian Legion…
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Mozart, Salieri and Amadeus
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In collaboration with the Grand Philharmonic Choir, Kitchener’s Apollo Cinema showcased Amadeus to promote the choir’s upcoming performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem. Known as Mozart’s last work, Requiem was left incomplete – Mozart unable to finish writing the piece before his death at the age of 35. However, does the film truly portray Mozart (and…
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Laurier laments the loss of Marek Krawiec
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Wilfrid Laurier University Laments the passing of Marek Krawiec, member of the Waterloo campus’s Information and Communications Technology team. After holding ICT positions at Laurier from 2007 to 2016, Krawiec returned to the university in 2023 as a systems architect. Known as a nature-loving, generous and kind individual, Krawiec will be greatly missed in the…
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Laurier women’s rugby shuts out York Lions
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The Laurier women’s rugby team put on a full display of their team motto, “Pleasantly Violent,” in a huge victory against the York Lions to add another win to the column. “They put everything we worked on in training into the game. We really started clicking and saw the level we see in training.” Head…
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First-year striker Sasha Marikano on the keys to her success on the pitch
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Local Kitchener native and first-year forward, Sasha Marikano dazzled in her first year on the pitch with the Golden Hawks women’s soccer program. After the cancellation of Ontario University Athletics (OUA) soccer last season, Marikano, who most recently played as a part of the Kitchener TFC Academy made the most of her first year with…
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Men’s Hockey split opening games against Guelph and Western in their return to the ice
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632 days removed from their last game; the Golden Hawks men’s hockey program returned to the ice last week with a successful road trip to begin the new Ontario University Athletics (OUA) season. Laurier opened their season with back-to-back games against two of the top teams in the province – Guelph and Western –splitting the…
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