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Golden Hawks Fall to Mustangs in OUA Semifinals
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The Laurier men’s football team travelled to London on Saturday to take on the defendingYates Cup champions, the Western Mustangs. Despite being in the month of November, thetemperature pushed 21 degrees Celsius. The weather would end up being a key factor in thegame where both teams would have to minimize mistakes playing into the strong…
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What to expect from Marvel in the coming years
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Tony Stark is dead. Steve Rogers is 90. Vision and Black Widow exploded. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is in shambles. But—fans do have plenty to be excited about. Over the next two to three years, countless predictably thrilling films are scheduled for release, further expanding—and rebuilding—the narratives we have come to love. Scarlett Johansson’s…
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Are Disney+ and other streaming services hurting traditional television?
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On Nov. 12, Disney launched its new streaming service Disney+, which features movies and television shows all under its production company. Available titles range from Star Wars to Disney Channel original movies and TV shows, like The Suite Life of Zack and Cody or High School Musical. The streaming service costs $8.99 per month or…
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An in-depth look at what makes the Laurier-Western rivalry so special
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Wilfrid Laurier University’s rivalry with Western is something that brings all the Laurier students together. If you ask Laurier students, they’ll state numerous reasons for why they don’t like Western and why the rivalry exists. For starters, Laurier was affiliated with Western until 1960. The school’s colours, purple and gold, are an extension of the…
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Hawks season ends at the hands of Western
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Brightest lights, biggest stage, highest stakes. These are the moments you live for in sports, especially as an athlete. In the biggest game of the year, with their season on the line, the Laurier Golden Hawks took their biggest loss of the year against the number one ranked Western Mustangs, 46-13. Western having not lost…
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Jessica Jones in the time of social change
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones is not your typical superhero. She’s a heavy drinker, she swears a lot, and doesn’t really care about being a superhero. Despite that, she cares for the people around her and frequently ends up saving the world. Jessica Jones was taken as a newly orphaned child and experimented on without her consent,…
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Racists try to bring down Black Panther’s ratings
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Black Panther, the predominantly African-American-casted Marvel superhero movie, comes to Canadian theatres Feb. 16. The movie has been long anticipated, since the emergence of King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) in Captain America: Civil War introduced many strongly-written characters who are people of colour. But for all the excitement the movie has stimulated, there has been a festering blight on sites like…
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Exploring the impact of children in comics
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Comic books have impacted the lives of many readers – especially in the age of super hero movies. This is because almost every big block-buster film is focused on an all-powerful being trying to find their place in the world while saving it. Despite this, the entertainment industry has greatly ignored child super heroes, ultimately…
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Thinking more critically about the rebooted Spider-Man
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Film and TV franchises get rebooted all the time and that’s nothing new. Cast changes, licensing exchanges — 20-years-later — all that. It can be very exciting to see your favourite television series or film franchise being rebooted. But sometimes we don’t care; sometimes we’re disappointed. One that people are generally very excited about is…
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Comparing Marvel and DC superheros
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A superhero has been defined by major media as someone with extraordinary abilities who ensures the protection of others, sometimes by putting themselves in harm’s way. The superheroes that have been a part of so many childhoods, however, do more than that. The superheroes we see in the major companies, DC and Marvel, provide an…
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