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Which streaming service produces the best original content?
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As it becomes extremely common for streaming services to produce their own original content, it raises the question: whose are the best? To clarify, I only intend on talking about original films and series produced solely for the streaming service in question. I don’t care that New Girl is on Netflix. Disney+ is an outlier…
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Adam Sandler’s “Hubie Halloween”: Revenge for his Oscar snub
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A month before last year’s Oscar nominations were released, Adam Sandler joked on The Howard Stern Show that if the Academy snubbed him for his role in The Safdie Brothers’ film Uncut Gems he would make a movie “that is so bad on purpose.” Well, that’s exactly what happened. Although Sandler was well recognized at…
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Eddie Van Halen: The true godfather of rock and roll
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Our society has been faced with the sudden passing of many influential figures over the past few months: Chadwick Boseman, Neil Peart, Kelly Preston, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, St. Louis Cardinal legends Lou Brock and Bob Gibson but to me, the most soul-crushing loss has been that of guitar-genius Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen passed on…
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The idiocy of 2020’s first presidential debate
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The first presidential debate was more disappointing than ordering Subway only to discover your entire sandwich is soaking wet. “How did this happen?” you wonder, “Why even bother in the first place?” At best, the debate was a display of male ignorance, phallic compensation and utter idiocy. As a conscious advocate for political justice, I…
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Canada’s age demographic shift in COVID-19 cases
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As of Oct. 2, 1,130 Canadian citizens between the ages of 0 and 39—only 9.6 per cent of our total population—have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. This is the demographic least likely to notice significant or worrisome symptoms due to the virus. Therefore, their likelihood to be hospitalised is greatly decreased. Provided that the patient…
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Information overload: how Laurier’s first online semester has been overwhelming students
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We’re only three weeks into the semester and I’m already overwhelmed. I don’t know about you but I’m just about ready to coast. It’s easy to blame these feelings on yourself. It could just be your incessant anxiety, your habits of procrastination or maybe even your binging of cigarettes and soft pretzels. Who knows? But…
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Why weight gain during the pandemic isn’t always your fault
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There are plenty of valid reasons as to why our new pandemic lifestyles can and have led to weight gain. I’ve plumped up like a balloon since the state of emergency was announced. For one, stress levels are high. We’re living in a period of constant unknowns. To throw all of our regular daily stressors…
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians is coming to an end
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After twenty mind-numbing seasons, Keeping Up With The Kardashians is coming to a fitting end. It seems as though the family believes they can make their money elsewhere, exploiting teens across the internet rather than through television. I felt filthy and desheleved doing research for this piece—only now am I truly ashamed of my search…
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Chris Evans and the double standard of explicit photographs
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Last week, Captain America star Chris Evans found himself in an understandably uncomfortable position. Evans had intended to share an innocent video of his family playing the popular iPhone game “Heads Up!”. When the video reached its conclusion, the screen-recorded clip was minimized, further exposing the content of Evan’s camera roll. Along with some confusingly…
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Don’t get too excited about life on Venus
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David Bowie had it wrong—screw Mars. But before you get too excited about aliens, the ‘life’ we’re talking about is microbial. Within the clouds of Venus, astronomers have detected a surprising chemical signature: phosphine. This is an exciting discovery since phosphine gas “doesn’t belong in the Venus atmosphere,” said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science…
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