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“Meet the Candidates” event encourages students to get involved and vote
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On Sept. 26 between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., the University Affairs Department of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Students’ Union hosted a “Meet the Candidates” event for the upcoming municipal election candidates at the Paul Martin Centre on Laurier’s Waterloo Campus. The meet-and-greet networking event gave the electoral candidates for the positions of mayor, regional council…
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TEDxWLU brings innovation and speaker series to students during event on Friday
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On Friday, Sept. 21, TEDxWLU took place at Laurier’s Senate and Board Chamber. This year’s all-day event was independently organized by students and featured nine guest speakers, three TED Library Talks, as well as a networking event in which students and guest speakers had the opportunity to connect. The event’s lead coordinator, Sulay Shah, is…
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Hack The North, annual software and hardware “hack-a-thon” event, comes to the UW
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From Sept. 14 to 16, the University of Waterloo hosted their annual hack-a-thon, Hack The North. The annual event brings students from all over the world to engage in a non-stop, 36 hour competition to create novel and interesting pieces of software and hardware to be assessed by a panel of judges. To kick off…
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UW’s Indigenous Student Association aims to emancipate from Federation
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The University of Waterloo (UW) Indigenous Students Association (ISA) released a statement earlier this week expressing their intent to separate from UW’s Federation of Students and create their own Indigenous Student Union. The statement comes in correspondence to action taken by the University of Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Students’ Council who took similar steps by creating their…
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Menstruation nation bleeds guilt free
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Although menstruation happens to approximately half of all people during their lives, it’s still treated as taboo. Even on a university campus, considered by many to be a very liberal place, talking about periods in casual conversation is often frowned upon. On March 22, the University of Waterloo Women’s Centre held a workshop titled ‘Menstrual…
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UW students fight for better mental health care
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Students at University of Waterloo gathered together in the arts quad on March 8 to protest against the lack of mental health support services on campus. The Waterloo Walkout for mental health was a protest created by students in Discourse of Dissent, a multi-disciplinary course taught by Frankie Condon. The Walkout was in response to…
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Waterloo Region named a new hotspot for millennials
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In the coming years, the Region of Waterloo may see a steady increase of millennials deciding to buy homes and settle down in this thriving city. According to real estate website Point2Homes, the city of Waterloo ranks number seven overall out of 85 Canadian cities as an up-and-coming millennial hot spot for 2018. Quebec City…
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Students’ Union Directors explore topics of referendum questions
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An emergency Board of Directors meeting called in late December reveals that the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union has faced some difficulty in prepping questions for the upcoming referendum. The Students’ Union elections, which will be held from Jan. 30, 2018 to Feb. 1, 2018, will let Laurier students cast their ballots online to decide…
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Gateway Project creates new vision for University Avenue
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The City of Waterloo and Region of Waterloo have partnered up with the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College to create the University Gateway Project in order to develop a new vision for the future of University Avenue. The first public consultation was held on Thursday, Nov. 23 at St. Michael’s Church, where the team begun…
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TEDxUW brings together 700 delegates to annual event
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On Saturday, Oct. 28, the University of Waterloo held their sixth annual TEDx event in their Humanities Theatre. Founded over 30 years ago, TED is a media organization that puts on conferences around the world where experts are invited to come and speak on issues related to technology, entertainment and design. TEDx events are usually put on at a smaller scale and are independently organized by people…
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