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Hawks struggle for offence
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A year ago, the Wilfrid Laurier men’s hockey team pulled off an incredible second-half record of 9-3 to make it to the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) playoffs. It began Jan. 3, 2013 with a win against the Waterloo Warriors and continued until the end of the season, including a strong 2-0 win over the first-place…
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Group claims corporate-campuses are ‘dangerous’
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The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has expressed concerns over a number of campus-corporate collaborations across the country. CAUT released a report last week, analyzing twelve partnerships between private sector organizations such as think tanks and corporations, funding research and academic programs at various Canadian universities. The report explained that “when wealthy donors fund…
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Chilling with Canning
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Blowing through Waterloo Region for the first time as a solo artist, Brendan Canning from Canadian indie music collective, Broken Social Scene, asked visitors of Starlight Social Club to take a minute to relax and chill last week. Why? Because, you ‘gots’ to. Released in early October, Canning’s second solo release, You Gots 2 Chill,…
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Laurier’s national swimmers
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Two Golden Hawks certainly made a splash in the pool at the Tihanyi Divisionals last weekend in Hamilton, Ont. The purple and gold swimming team swam their way to a fourth-place finish in both men’s and women’s at the meet, where they held their own against the likes of the powerhouse swim clubs McMaster and…
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Investigating the Ontario scheduling issues
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With the addition of the Carleton Ravens, the Ontario University Athletics football conference grew to a nation-high 11 teams. While the growth of the Ontario conference has been a positive light for football in the province, it also presented issues this year with scheduling. “Because there are 11 teams now, every team avoids playing two…
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Tobacco use under fire
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The Ontario government has rolled out new legislation this week aiming to reduce the provincial smoking rate to the lowest in Canada. The Youth Smoking Prevention Act proposes new regulations with the goal of strengthening the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. If passed, the Act would prohibit smoking on restaurant patios and sports fields, in outdoor playgrounds…
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Strumbellas find their niche
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Only a year after their debut album, My Father and the Hunter, The Strumbellas are at it again with their recent sophomore release, We Still Move on Dance Floors. While some bands to reinvent themselves after their debut album, lead vocalist Simon Ward recently assured that other than a few smaller changes, that was not…
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The rise of animated feature film
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The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema (WFAC) has no problem sharing that fact with the public that animated feature films are not just for children. From November 15-17, WFAC took over Chrysalids Theatre in downtown Kitchener to screen over ten films ranging from anime to documentaries on animation. “I outgrew what was originally a project…
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Don’t lie, this has happened to you
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Here at Laurier, we are all pretty different. We are all in different programs, go to different bars and clubs, have different social lives, different likes, dislikes and so on and so forth. However, despite these notable differences, there is definitely one thing that all of us have in common: we do embarrassing things. And…
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Exploring Shine’s impact
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From Nov. 4-8, Laurier Shinerama held its fall awareness campaign on the Waterloo campus. The campaign was called #my10months and was meant to continue to educate the Laurier community about Cystic Fibrosis (CF). “The premise of the campaign was to show how every year a campaign is run, ten months of life is added, on…
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