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WLUSU board of directors platforms
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Alicia Appleby As a candidate for Board of Directors I feel that I have many creative and innovative contributions to offer. My main goal is to create a more collaborative multi campus university, working off each other’s strengths. Laurier campuses have much to offer their students and I have learned that there is no singular…
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Students raising money for change
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By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one child under the age of five will have died due to lack of access to safe water and basic sanitation. According to UNICEF statistics, that child will be one of 5,000 lost today, a number which the organization aims to reduce through efforts to build water…
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Outdoor activities in Waterloo
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The Winter can sometimes be a little intense in the Waterloo Region, so we’ve put together a list of winter activities in this city to give you some ideas on how to make the most out of the cold. Ski and snowboard Located at 396 Morrison Road, Kitchener, Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort is a…
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Loss of St. Mike’s daycare is still felt
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Students at Wilfrid Laurier University have noticed the gaping hole where St. Michael’s school once stood and the Global Innovation and Exchange is slated to be built. With the demolishment of St. Mike’s came the closure of the Abwunza daycare that left many families in the Laurier community upset with the university and distressed about…
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2012 arrives and old police corruption trials are revisited
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Last week, five former Toronto police drug squad officers appeared in court to address charges of theft, assault, perjury, extortion and conspiracy to obstruct justice by falsifying official police records. All have pleaded not guilty to what amounts to the biggest case of alleged police corruption in Canadian history, with the state having spent $14…
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Hub of campus disrupted
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For the next six to eight weeks, the Concourse at Wilfrid Laurier University will probably be a lot more crowded than usual. Last week the university began a construction project to fix a chimney on the roof of the building. The chimney, which is directly above the online pick-up booth of the Laurier Bookstore, has…
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Balsillie and Lazaridis step down
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Iain Marlow has been watching Waterloo-based tech giant Research In Motion (RIM) for the better part of a year, and still the company managed to surprise him. When it was announced Sunday night that RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, were stepping down from both their posts as co-CEOs and as co-chairs of the…
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WLUSU divided
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As the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union implements the initial stages of its new multi-governance policy, students at the Laurier Brantford campus, in particular, haven’t been feeling all that satisfied. The first stage of the new policy will introduce a new position, vice-president: campus experience, on both the Brantford and Waterloo campuses. As a result,…
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Does Soviet era propoganda still maintain a distorting effect on Western conceptions of today’s modern Russian Federation?
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In Soviet Russia — insert annoying, backwards scenario. Why is it that this incredibly irritating “joke” became so popular? The answer is quite simple: we see the Soviet Union (USSR) as inherently backwards. Typically, if you ask a student to write down everything they know about the Soviet Union they will create a very short…
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Laurier plays the waiting game on Milton campus
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While discussion around a potential Milton campus for Wilfrid Laurier University has been consistent for the past few years, progress and movement towards the materialization of that particular project has been slow and minimal. “Right now, we’re in the ‘go slow’ stage,” explained WLU president Max Blouw. “In the sense that the [provincial] government announced…
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