sex education
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Laurier students roll out e-waste bin on campus
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Reena Sakran and Nathan Lam, third-year students at Wilfrid Laurier University, spearheaded the rollout of an e-waste bin on the school’s Waterloo campus. The project, which the two students called Smart Hawk Recycling, started out as an assignment for a sustainability class. “The assignment was to propose an idea for the Sustainable Hawk Fund, but…
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Waterloo region offers potential solution for dog waste
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You have probably seen the many different iterations of the same signs to get you to pick up your dog’s poop. No matter what your reaction is to these signs, the message is clear —be responsible and scoop the poop. On average, a dog excretes between 0.5 and 0.75 pounds of waste per day. All…
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Canada banning single-use plastic by the end of 2021
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Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced in a news conference on Oct. 7 that single-use plastics will be banned in Canada by the end of 2021. Canadians produce an estimated 3.3 million tonnes of plastic waste and use almost 15 billion plastic bags every year and close to 57 million disposable straws every…
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Sex education in Ontario needs to be updated and improved
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In 2015, then Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet rolled out an updated sex-ed curriculum which was marred with controversy and parental protest. This was to be the first update to the curriculum in 17 years. Though heralded as a welcome and overdue change by some, some groups in Ontario believed it went too far. The new…
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Unsigned: Sex education should continue past high school
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When’s the last time you had proper sex education? For most of us, it came in grade nine gym class. That was a long time ago for university students. If one thing’s for sure, it’s that sex isn’t static. Why should our sex education stop at the beginning of high school? There’s an assumption that…
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Changes made to waste collection in Waterloo
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Changes to how waste will be collected in the Waterloo Region will come into effect this March 2017. The new changes will affect all single family homes that qualify for curbside collection, as well as small apartments that have up to six units. Single family homes will be limited to four bags or cans of…
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