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Laurier signs on to climate change charter to guide future investments
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Wilfrid Laurier has signed onto a charter that places climate change as a central issue when determining financial investments the university may make. The charter, called Investing to Address Climate Change: A Charter for Canadian Universities, was created by the University of Toronto in June of last year and as of now has 16 other…
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Laurier men’s baseball wins the OUA championship
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In the playoffs, an entire season’s struggle is compressed into a matter of innings. Each pitch, each at-bat possesses heightened importance, and in the crucible of the playoffs teams must be focused, unified and resilient when things go wrong. The weekend started well enough. At 13-5, the Wilfrid Laurier University men’s baseball team entered the…
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Lindsay Shepherd critiques the use of land acknowledgements on social media
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On Dec. 24, 2017, Lindsay Shepherd tweeted a photo of a syllabus from CS101B: Canadian Communication in Context taught by Judith Nicholson. Nicholson allegedly confronted Shepherd citing she breached intellectual property. I wonder how indigenous people feel about the holier-than-thou “SJWs” who use land acknowledgments to virtue signal. This land acknowledgment is on a…
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Golden Hawks suffer back to back defeats in Toronto
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On a two game road-trip to Toronto, the Wilfrid Laurier men’s basketball team faced off against the University of Toronto on Friday night and Ryerson University on Saturday night. The Golden Hawks returned home having lost both games, but head coach Justin Serresse sounded more like a coach on a mission than one guiding a…
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Hawks impress in tough loss against Brock
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The Wilfrid Laurier University women’s hockey team took on the nationally ranked Brock Badgers at home on Thursday night in their second match up against a nationally ranked team this season. Brock opened up the scoring five minutes into the game, taking the lead early in the first, but Laurier’s Emily Woodhouse answered with one…
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Freedom of expression rally draws counter-protest
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Photo by Tanzeel Sayani On Nov. 24, a student-organized demonstration for free speech attracted a large number of participants occurred on the Veteran’s Green memorial at the intersection of University and Hazel. Not too long after the demonstration for free speech commenced, a counter-demonstration in support of trans students began across the street. Both demonstrations…
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