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‘Unstoppable’
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Earning their sixth straight win of the season, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women’s soccer team showed promise of another successful season on the weekend. Sunday afternoon’s 2-1 victory over the Brock Badgers has the team in first place in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) west division and they remain first overall in the Canadian…
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York transfer lights it up
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The Wilfrid Laurier women’s soccer teams’ record is nothing short of impressive. They are ranked first in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) rankings and are undefeated on the season with some big wins such as a 4-0 beat-down against York University and a 6-1 thrashing against McMaster. Along with this impressive record, come some rather…
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Coming off the rails
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KINGSTON, Ont. — The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks are making a lot of teams look good. Their past two opponents, Queen’s and Windsor (two middling Ontario University Athletics squads), who should have no business toppling the Hawks have received two football player of the week honours. First, it was Austin Kennedy, the scrambling quarterback speedster…
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Why do people really go to TIFF?
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The beginning of September can always be an exciting time and I am not talking about our overwhelming emotions to ditch our mind-numbing summer jobs and dive into the world of textbooks, three hour lectures and study sessions. That too is a nice thought but more specifically, I am talking about that special time when…
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Unlimited sperm donation needs rethinking
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In the past month or so, Internet news sites have been buzzing over a New York Times article which documented the case of a child, conceived as a result of sperm donation, who has found approximately 150 half-siblings through an online donor registry. This has sparked a flurry of responses, many of which are calling…
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UK’s blood donation policy a win for gay rights
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The United Kingdom’s Department of Health has determined “that permanently excluding gay men from donating blood is unmerited and not based on any scientifically proven increase in risk to the blood supply.” It may have taken 30 years, but I commend the United Kingdom (UK) for finally lifting the ban on gay men donating blood.…
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NDP’s orange ‘crush’ turning into flirtatious courtship
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If the New Democratic Party (NDP) were dating Quebec, Nycole Turmel would have handed the province the keys to her apartment and they would be on their way to shacking up. Much more than the initial orange “crush” that analysts had first attributed to the NDP’s rapid uprising in the last federal election, the relationship…
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TIFF 2011: five films in review
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Death of a Superhero Part of an unexpected slew of “cancer comedy” films hitting the festival (most notably 50/50, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen) this year, Death of a Superhero, from Irish director Ian Fitzgibbon (whose terrific last film, Perrier’s Bounty, screened at TIFF in 2009), proves just as poignant and hilarious. Despite the…
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“Beyond Genocide” exhibit on display
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The Waterloo Lutheran Seminary on campus is currently displaying an exhibit called “Beyond Genocide” featuring works by artist Amy Fagin. The U.S. based artist has created 13 of what she has dubbed “illuminated manuscripts,” or manuscripts that are accompanied by interpretive artwork. The works represent some of the most prominent and tragic instances of genocide…
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K’naan plays at CIGI
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Rapper K’naan is known to the public for his diverse talents. The Somalia born Keinan Abdi Warsame is a musician, instrumentalist, lyrical poet and dedicated political activist. On the afternoon of Sept. 16 at the opening of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) campus in uptown Waterloo, he was introduced by Research In Motion…
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