Matthew Sneath
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Moving forward through letting go
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Do you ever walk on campus and see people you don’t like and vice versa? Do you ever just roll your eyes mentally because you have locked eyes with someone that despises you? I am talking to you ladies! I’m sure there are men out there that deal with this issue too so regardless feel…
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Sochi olympics a time for reflection
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We buy products from countries not only lacking democracy and freedom, but also the most fundamental labour laws. Our vanity and materialism sustain the demand for diamonds and other minerals which fuel conflict and promote resource exploitation. We sit idly by as conflicts erupt around the world and people die from starvation and preventable disease…
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Letters to the Editor: February 5
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RE: Life’s good and only getting better In the last edition of the Cord, Spencer Gibara’s opinion piece made numerous generalizations and assumptions about the ‘natural’ and ‘necessary’ function of capitalism. He suggests that “one country’s economic situation isn’t the responsibility of another country,” and in doing so, clearly ignores the mass outsourcing of jobs,…
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Free speech a key Canadian value
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On January 30th, the Laurier Students For Liberty club put up a Free Speech Wall in the Concourse. The purpose of this wall was for any student to come up and write whatever they wish with impunity. Controversial statements such as “God doesn’t exist,” “Abortion is murder,” and “Go Leafs!” filled the board. In the…
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Faith depends on context
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The other day, I was watching a documentary about Sam Berns called Life According to Sam. Now, for those who don’t know who this young man was, Sam Berns was one of only about 110 kids on Earth, as of 2013, who had Progeria, a rare disease (affecting only 1 in 4-8 million newborns) that…
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Bullying and self-worth
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“Human beings as well as society are born out of both violence and gentle cooperation.” This is a quotation from the late Bruno Bettelheim and defines the somewhat paradoxical but inescapable fact which touches our whole history. How such forces are balanced in a society determines the stability of its political organization and how such…
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Real understanding through fiction
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Political junkies and academics take in news, journal articles, op-eds and non-fiction in alarming amounts, ingesting as much information as possible to inform their worldview and further their understanding. The value in such information sources is clear, but the aforementioned crowd overlooks one source with near uniformity: fiction. As a political science student and general…
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Life’s good and only getting better
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Last week, a new study emerged that has reignited the already vicious debate regarding income inequality. According to Oxfam International, the richest 85 people on the planet have approximately as much wealth as half the world’s population. In other words, 85 people combined are wealthier than 3.5 billion people. The media was quick to pounce…
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Kitchener homeless shelter scheduled to close
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Some of Waterloo’s homeless may lose a place to stay at night as the Kitchener-Waterloo Out of the Cold (OTC) program announced the intention to close one of its sites. As many as 80 homeless people in the Region could be affected by this closure. Ray of Hope, the site which is at risk of…
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Bike Share program gets green light from City Council
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A public bike share program approved by Waterloo City Council is set to take motion in November. This initiative, known as the Grand River Public Bike Share (GRPBS), aims to provide bicycles at four stations within Waterloo’s core and university areas. “This is a non-profit group who is looking to implement a public bike share…
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