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Student journalists struck by infection
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Over 75 student journalists, hosts and speakers from across Canada fell seriously ill this past weekend from a sudden outbreak of norovirus, formerly known as Norwalk, during the Canadian University Press (CUP) national journalism conference held in Victoria, BC at the Harbour Hotel. On the final night of the conference, more and more delegates began…
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Rookie reaches new heights
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Shelby Kurt lives for basketball. The Golden Hawks’ outstanding rookie forward was named the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) female athlete of the week on Jan. 9, having scored 19 points and four rebounds in a game against Brock on Jan. 7. Kurt helped lead the team to a 77-69 victory, their second of the week.…
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UBC prof launches free online university
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VANCOUVER (CUP) — Money could be becoming less of a factor in getting a university-level education. Next Generation University (NextGenU) has opened its virtual doors to become one of the first services in Canada to offer university-level education for free. Erica Frank, founder and executive director of NextGenU and a professor at UBC’s School of…
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Tracking Laurier’s ‘green’ progress
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Over the past year, Wilfrid Laurier University, in particular the sustainability office, has been implementing a variety of initiatives to ensure the campus is more ‘green’. Just recently, the sustainability office released their annual report highlighting the accomplishments of 2011 as well as their goals for the coming year. Claire Bennett, the sustainability office coordinator…
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Brood plays K-W despite blackout
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Not even the forces of nature were able to stop Elliott Brood from playing a captivating show at Uptown Waterloo’s Starlight Lounge last Thursday. Despite a power outage that affected the majority of the Uptown area and threatened the show’s possibility, fans anxiously awaited confirmation that the show would ensue. Ten minutes before the show…
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Behaviour of undercover police raises question of informed consent
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In Jan. 2011, the Guardian published an article which dealt with the issue of undercover police officers forming sexual relationships with activists as a tactic to maintain their cover. This issue was uncovered once an activist group based in the United Kingdom discovered that one of their members, known as Mark Stone, was actually Mark…
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Local students head to business competition
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Young entrepreneurs from local business Waterloo Banking Project have qualified in the central region for the Enterprize Canada business plan competition, allowing them the opportunity to move on to finals in Vancouver next month. The team of three, comprised of University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier students, placed second out of seven teams in the…
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Let them drink beer
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Joining the Charcoal Group and King Street’s ever-expanding restaurant collection in summer 2012 is Beertown Public House, which will be located in Waterloo Town Square. Another location is also being opened this spring in Cambridge off of Hespeler Road. Concept Manager Dan Maltar described the Uptown location as “amazing.” “All the restaurants are mostly on…
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‘Hail to the chief’
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Like many student leaders, Colin Le Fevre, Nick Gibson and Kyle Walker were all compelled to run largely due to change that they wanted to see within the union and believed they were qualified to make those changes. 2008-09 president Le Fevre, who had sat on the WLUSU board of directors in previous years, had…
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Liberal strategy rooted in irrelevancy
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Bob Rae, interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has not fully ruled out running for the permanent leadership. If he should run and win the Liberal leadership, the Liberal party runs the risk of becoming irrelevant. I feel this way simply because there would be little difference between the Liberals and New Democratic…
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