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Are the Ontario NDP’s TikToks effective?
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Youth voter turnout has been on the decline since the 1990s. Aside from 2015 and 2019, the first two times Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected, almost every election since the 90s has brought fewer and fewer young people to the polls. This is clearly not a new issue, but since the new year, the…
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Invincible season two is a treat for fans of the show
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On March 14, the second half of Invincible’s second season debuted on Amazon Prime. Fans waited with anticipation after being left on a cliffhanger at the end of the second season’s fourth episode. The decision to split the release of the second season is an interesting one. On the one hand, it’s clear the show-runners…
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How international films question and challenge North American perspectives
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Different cultures offer different approaches to life’s many questions. The Oscars’ international entries, including those that weren’t nominated, explore how human fundamentals—love and joy—take shape in the eyes of non-North American artists. Whether they’re subjectively good or bad is irrelevant – either way, they’ll expand your capacity to appreciate perspective and, I hope, offer new…
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Rooster Teeth: The end of an era
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If you dated a man who played video games in the 2010s, you’ve probably heard of Rooster Teeth. Initially a website for drunkenly reviewing video games, Rooster Teeth quickly became a leading force in machinima (creating narratives from computer graphics) with their series Red vs Blue. Unfortunately, on Mar. 6 of this year, Rooster Teeth’s…
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Unionize WLU: It’s Time to Organize Laurier’s Student Workers
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This article is cross-posted with the community edition “Unionize All Student Workers.” If you’ve spent time at Wilfrid Laurier University recently, you’ll have likely seen stickers posted around campus bearing this call to action. Maybe you’ve also seen posters, stuck to bulletin boards or taped up on the door of your favourite professor, exclaiming “I…
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Mitigating the impact of burnout culture
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Burnout is the soft white underbelly beneath today’s fast-paced and demanding world, affecting individuals across various professions and lifestyles, but what is it really? Recently, there has been a growing recognition of the challenges that individuals face both in the workplace and in their personal lives. Women often fall victim to unique circumstances. I interviewed…
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Confessions of a long retired theatre kid
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Like many others, I was encouraged by my parents growing up to try numerous activities to see which one “stuck.” For me, this activity happened to be theatre. Being a homeschooled kid, I began my journey acting in numerous community productions alongside productions put on by the homeschool group I was a part of (yes,…
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Stardew Valley is the best cozy game
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Do you like cozy games? Spending hours of your free time immersing yourself in a fantasy world where the oppressive loom of bills and taxes don’t exist? For the last couple of years, I have been completely hooked on what I believe to be one of the best cozy games – Stardew Valley. This farming…
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Performative tragedy and the misuse of queer representation in the media
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“Dead lesbian Syndrome” is a 1970s literary & TV phenomenon, representing misogyny & homophobia faced by female characters on screen. Hay’s law, established in the 1930s, was a list of “moral guidelines” that governed cinematic subject matter, restricting and prohibiting anything from profanity to childbirth scenes to homosexual depictions and interracial relationships. The law lingers…
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Where do we draw the line when considering MAID?
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) has been controversial in Canada since its inception in 2016, similar to the few other nations that offer it. In 2022, it was announced by the Government of Canada that there have been over 44,000 MAID procedures. This is a 31.2 per cent increase from 2021, demonstrating that the procedure…
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