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Graduate students at Wilfrid Laurier looking to form a union for teaching assistants
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Graduate students at Wilfrid Laurier University have been actively working towards organizing a union for teaching assistants (TAs) to improve their current working conditions — which include better wages and benefits, increased support, transparency with hiring and contracts and addressing ongoing issues with TAs going over hours. This comes as a result of a group…
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Laurier Brantford’s One Market space now open for classroom use
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Laurier’s Brantford campus opened their One Market space for classroom use this fall after renovating the space to use for students as well as centralized services for the integrated campus. “In September of 2014 the City of Brantford approved the sale of the former Market Square Mall property to Wilfrid Laurier University for $5.8 million.…
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Brantford candidates continue to represent Laurier as a multi-campus
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This year’s Students’ Union election sees more candidates and more participation from students over last year’s election, especially from Brantford. With two Brantford candidates in the running for president, two for the board of directors and one for the senate, Brantford has a total of five members of their campus in the race for positions…
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Controversy arises over conference keynote speaker
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Keynote speaker for the Wilfrid Laurier Brantford campus Criminology Student Association conference Danielle Robitaille has cancelled her presentation after open dialogue came out about the ethics of her appearance on the Wilfrid Laurier University Brantford campus. Robitaille stirred up controversy after taking on the role as a defence lawyer for former CBC radio host Jian…
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Spring cleaning encapsulates more than just your physical belongings
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Students have an incredibly hard time staying organized and managing their belongings, from free pens given out in the concourse, to water bottles from O-Week and ticket stubs from 12 Barz; students are the ultimate hoarders. With every year it seems like more “stuff” is accumulated and less stuff is discarded. Although decluttering may seem…
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