Renoviction
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Renoviction surge across Waterloo continues
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On June 17, city council voted to review Waterloo’s Residential Licensing Bylaw to ensure a way to protect renters from facing what the city calls “renovictions.” This is a recent trend where landlords undertake minor renovation work and use this as a reason to evict tenants. There are many situations where landlords might implement renovictions,…
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Are our attention spans getting shorter?
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In an era where presentations must captivate within 10 minutes, speeches lose listeners after 30 seconds, and just eight seconds de- termine if our attention is hooked, are short-form media content like TikTok’s, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts further eroding our already fragile attention spans? The claim that short-form media directly causes shortened atten- tion…
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