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Exposing Aboriginal culture
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Aboriginal Awareness Week kicked off its second year at the Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo campus this past Monday. Events will be running until Friday across campus and at the Aboriginal Student Centre located at 187 Albert Street. Aboriginal Awareness Week was implemented to generate awareness of the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, and all of the…
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Charity Ball hopes for successful year
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Each year, Charity Ball throws an event that is different from anything else offered for students, but for the first time it was on campus. The semi-formal event, held this year on March 9 in the Turret, hosted “A Candy Coated Extravaganza”— a themed night of dinner and dancing for students while raising awareness and…
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Waterloo looks to the web
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The City of Waterloo has joined Facebook, Twitter and created its own channel on YouTube. Now Waterloo will go a step further as it opens a blog to the public. At the beginning of March the Waterloo opened a blog to spread city news and get citizens involved. The blog calls itself “hip” and “current”…
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Writer-in-Residence speaks to campus club
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Acclaimed Canadian author Joseph Boyden paid a visit to Wilfrid Laurier University last week as part of the Writer-in-Residence program. The program, established last year, invites notable Canadian authors to stay at Laurier for a week to participate in book signings, lectures and, in the case of Joseph Boyden, a private session with a committed…
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Women’s day gets heated
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International Women’s Week became a controversy about “cunt” at the University of Waterloo (UW) after students hit administrative road blocks promoting and hosting events titled in honour of the word. Inga Muscio, author of Cunt: A declaration of independence, was invited by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG), in conjunction with the campus Women’s…
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Vulgar, crude, totally Canadian hockey
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We all remember the obnoxious and sexually-charged high school bully “Stifler,” made infamous by the 1999 hit comedy American Pie. Now, he’s back and looking to dish out the pain again — this time, on skates. Goon, written by Canadians Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, is based on the novel Goon: The True Story of…
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How can businesses successfully go green?
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It’s not easy being green. In spite of the adoption of more sustainable practices by many businesses, finding financially prudent ways to implement these initiatives, while also ensuring they are appealing to upper-level management, can be a challenge. As part of a series of informative and interactive events taking place at different community locations, Sustainable…
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Political comic gives insight into the “green revolution”
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Imagine: it is July 2009 and you are in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad receives 63 per cent of the vote; the election has been stolen. Iranians do not need international monitors to tell them, that much is obvious. As you look out your window, a crowd three million strong begins to…
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You can’t hide from graduation, it will find you
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Graduation: it seems so far away until suddenly it isn’t. As this year’s batch of graduates near the end of the term, many are likely feeling apprehensive, excited, or perhaps terrified, and with good reason. Graduation is a life milestone that marks our real entry into adulthood — sweatpants are no longer acceptable clothing for…
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Interactive stimuli in real time
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Jay Ferguson has taken interactive fiction to a new level. Ferguson, the creator of web series Guidestones, feels that he has revamped the viewing experience for the public, and not just through the gripping adventure in the story, which centres around two journalism students attempting to uncover details of an unsolved murder. “As they do…
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