Loren King
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Professor Loren King swims across Lake Ontario
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A political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University has completed his journey of swimming from Queen’s Royal Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake, to Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto. Loren King, who began his marathon across Lake Ontario on the evening of August 1 and finished the next day at 3:13 p.m., swam 52 kilometres in support of…
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#AllLivesMatter is missing the point
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In light of the mass amounts of media attention put on unarmed black persons killed by the police and the awakening of the BlackLivesMatter movement, I was mortified when I saw the AllLivesMatter hashtag trending on twitter. The first tweet I saw was in reply to a comment made by a twitter user comforting the…
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