Riverdale
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“The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” charms Netflix audiences
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On Oct. 26, the long anticipated The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina premiered on Netflix. Though it may not be the horror fix you’re looking for, it’s worth the watch whether you’re a fan of the comics or earlier adaptations or not. If you’re a fan of Riverdale, the highest marketing point of Sabrina as the…
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Arts organizations students can get involved in
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Coming into Laurier as a Toronto-bred, big city kid, I thought the only cultural attractions in Kitchener-Waterloo were the swarths of geese that congregated around campus. Now I work for a non-profit theatre company in Kitchener and every day I eat my words. There are so many fantastic arts organizations hidden in Laurier’s backyard, and…
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Long distance shouldn’t be the end to a relationship
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Since late December, I’ve seen my boyfriend in person a total of eight days. Between getting sick — again — being in and out of the doctor’s and then flying off to exchange in England for a semester, physically getting to one another is next to impossible. Our relationship was one of the biggest reservations…
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Editorial: Attending a meeting at Laurier Society for Open Inquiry
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Have you heard of the Laurier Society for Open Inquiry (LSOI)? It’s a club that Lindsay Shepherd recently started with a handful of undergraduate students. On her twitter account, she describes it as “a club to promote the open exchange of ideas”. As more information about the Shepherd controversy was released, I found myself increasingly…
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Editorial: the other side of free speech
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When somebody has the courage to admit that they feel unsafe, my instinctive reaction would be to try and understand why. I find the Lindsay Shepherd controversy so appalling because in the ensuing media storm, there has been a startling lack of analysis about why the complaint was issued in the first place. Media outlets,…
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Editorial Cartoons 2017-18
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The trouble with toxic relationships on TV
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On modern TV, romances are not frequently depicted in a healthy manner. Audiences are fed inorganic, unhealthy relationships that, heterosexual people especially, lap up like they’re meant to without a second thought. The most recent example that comes to mind is Mon-El and Kara, also known collectively by internet fans as “Karamel”, on Supergirl. It…
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