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#Textbookbroke campaign demands more affordable, cost-effective solution
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As the semester commences at universities across Ontario, many post-secondary students find themselves conflicted by the cost of course materials. The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), an organization dedicated to representing the needs of undergraduate students across the province, relaunched the campaign #TextbookBroke to address the matter of practically unaffordable course materials and rally towards…
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Wilfrid Laurier University and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives hosts annual Indigenous Education Week
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Wilfrid Laurier University and the Office of Indigenous of Initiatives is currently hosting the eighth annual Indigenous Education Week from March 5-12. The first event of the week was a keynote speech from Kendal Netmaker, who came all the way from Saskatchewan to present a speech on his story. Netmaker is originally from Sweet Grass…
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A look at textbook costs in the era of #textbookbroke
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The cost of textbooks has been a topic of discussion and debate more or less since they were first invented, but the conversation has taken a significant turn lately as the #textbookbroke hashtag began trending earlier this year. The textbook industry is a strange one, without many direct comparisons. It is synergistically powered by the…
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