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Ontario caps post-secondary tuition fees
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On Dec. 15, the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Development released a bulletin regarding Ontario post-secondary tuition costs. The bulletin announced that there would be a policy to have a specific cap to maintain in order for Ontario’s students, parents and guardians to have financial predictability when it comes to post-secondary tuition costs. “This…
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Best reads of 2016
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeline Thien This book, written by Madeline Thien, is the winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was the finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. Needless to say, it did not disappoint. In the book, the two main characters, Marie and Ai-Ming, shows us the lives of…
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Abusive and threatening comments cannot be tolerated
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Over the winter break, the Laurier community learned through various media outlets, including The Cord, that the Graduate Students’ Association had terminated their contract with the operator of Veritas Café, Sandor Dosman. The contract was terminated, according to Dosman, due to an ad he posted online looking for new employees, saying he was searching for…
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New Year’s no time to make drastic life changes
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One thing that I’ve noticed about myself as I get older is the frantic desperation I feel whenever the new year is approaching. I scramble to make both a mental and physical list of grandiose resolutions that are never very realistic or feasible to achieve. I automatically set myself up for failure when I pen…
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Laurier Curling hopeful for another record year
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The Laurier curling teams are ready to hit the ground running and start off the new year right where they left of last season. 2016 was a remarkable year for the men’s curling squad, as they were able to capture the CIS gold medal after defeating the the Alberta Golden Bears 7-4. The Laurier men…
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Sun Life Financial donates to new Laurier Centre
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Wilfrid Laurier University is launching a centre to encourage youth within the Kitchener-Waterloo community to partake in physical activity programming in order to ultimately fight against childhood obesity and chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Laurier received a $500,000 donation from Sun Life Financial in order to open the centre, which will be named…
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MCC and Laurier sponsor Syrian refugee families
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In November 2015, Wilfrid Laurier University, in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), sponsored three Syrian families who have been left country-less to immigrate over to Canada. Today, those three families have resettled in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Wilfrid Laurier University was the first university to approach MCC, a non-government organization, to aid the refugees. “A…
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HAWKstarter offers Laurier new opportunities
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Various new projects at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo campus have received some additional funding this month due to a new crowd funding website called HAWKstarter. HAWKStarter, launched on Nov. 29, was coined “Giving Tuesday,” as over 100 donors donated more than $6,000 through the crowdfunding website. HAWKstarter allowed for seven projects to receive funding, which…
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Changes implemented by Service Laurier
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Since the summer, Wilfrid Laurier University’s enrolment services centre, Service Laurier, has undergone two significant changes which have impacted how their services are delivered to prospective and current students. The first change, undergone this past June, deals with how service advisors respond to email and phone inquiries on all Laurier campuses, rather than having students…
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Reflections on bad qualities
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To this day, the lesson that has resonated with me the most came from my grade 12 literature class. We were instructed to draw a box in the centre of a page, then think of the person that we disliked most in this world. We were told to put the qualities about them that annoyed…
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