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A collaborative project by Brittany Bennett and Dillon Giancola   Jaquie Daniel has lived in Brantford for 25 years. By Cody Hoffman. Jaquie Daniel   Jaquie Daniel has loved her life in Brantf...

A growing university and a revitalized downtown core have worked to create a sense of community that Brantford hasn’t seen in almost 20 years. The economic recession in the early 1990’s and the loss of the ...

  Chad Michael Gowing performing as Warhed at a Hardcore Roadtrip wrestling event. Courtesy of independent professional wrestler photographer, Tabercil. Thirty year old Chad Michael Gowing of Cambri...

Psychology of Addiction. By Rebecca Duce. When we think of the word addiction, our thoughts go to all sorts of different places. Some people think of loved one’s that struggle with substance abuse, others...

Addiction counsellors are also affected. By Rebecca Duce. Drugs and alcohol are the most common types of vices that are associated with addiction. Addiction doesn’t just hurt the user, the effects of addi...

The Powderpuff Football team celebrates their tournament victory at Sheridan. This is the Laurier's first championship in team history. Courtesy of Scott Lowell. The Women’s Powderpuff Football team march...

World traveller. By Rebecca Duce. Imagine waking up one morning and following through with what you’ve been dreaming about doing, whether it’s going on that special vacation, finally pushing for that ca...

Dr. Robert Thirsk. Courtesy of the Canadian Space Academy. What has your job taught you? There are so many different careers out there in many diverse fields, each and every one teaching people new and impo...

  Alexander Graham Bell is feeling a little romantic during this time of year. Cody Hoffman. Everyone has a different definition of romantic. Some define it as a fine dinner with the best wine and a...

The psychological aspects of the Mars One Mission. Rebecca Duce. As many of you may know, the Mars One mission has passed the first phase of the selection process, narrowing down the pool of more than 200,0...

Our small and intimate campus is home to a surprisingly large number of international students. The LEAF program, which draws the most international students to our campus, is designed to build English skills f...

Senators thrown out. Rebecca Duce. As read in an open letter written by Justin Trudeau that The Sputnik has received through being on the mailing list of Liberal Party staff member Scott Bardsley, “The Li...

Decades of political scandal. Rebecca Duce. We have all heard enough of these political scandals getting fed on by the media, but have we considered that the politicians are the ones reaching out with the f...

Kayla Doucette. Cody Hoffman. There are lots of stories around our campus, and others, about students returning to school at a later date to either finish their degree or start anew. There are many differen...

Unpaid internships will wear you out. Rebecca Duce. Internships have long been used as a form of on-the-job teaching for students and new grads, similar to apprenticeships and co-ops. While apprenticeships ...

Finding the good in all genres of music. Rebecca Duce. It is hard to deny that music plays a huge role in our lives today, and in society. Online shopping and illegal downloading may have hurt the music ind...

Brittany Bennett and her dog, Cotton. Courtesy of Brittany Bennett. I realized what had happened seconds after I asked those few words, “How’s my boo-boo?” People say when tragic things happen, their ...

Alicia Krawchuk (left) washes dishes in Africa. Courtesy of Mariah Bargan. There comes a time for all of us when life just becomes stagnant. You can be bored of the routine, frustrated with a lack of succes...

As the New Year begins, Francis Fiction is busy preparing for the second season of his web-series called Human Stories. Human Stories is a documentary web-series inspired by Fiction’s curiosity and love of st...

Abby Darel thinks that smaller, more realistic New Years resolutions are best -- like eating a more balanceddiet. Cody Hoffman. Bringing in the New Year is the most common time for people to make the decisi...

It has been labeled by www.globalresearch.ca as the “greatest short-term threat to humanity.” With such a powerful statement, we should clearly be alarmed. Yet most people would not be able to guess what it...

A large part of the university experience involves living away from home, whether it’s in residence or off campus. Many students here at Laurier live off campus at least once during their four or five year st...

Through all the stress of upcoming finals and exams, first year Laurier student Hannah Brunsdon takes the time to enjoy pure happiness. She has turned the way she looks at life completely around. Brunsdon was p...

On the road to recovery. Christina Manocchio There are countless stories of people from Brantford suffering because of the city’s economy. Thousands of people lost their jobs almost overnight and the city...

  It is hard to turn on the news or read the paper without being blasted with coverage of scandals in our country. Scandals and controversy are a part of life and government, and part of the media’s j...

Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Lloyd Bentley. Christina Manocchio As we all wear our red poppies over our hearts, we are remembering the many lives that have been lost in the Armed Forces’ line of duty. T...

The Brantford Foundations come to Laurier Brantford. Art by Rebecca Duce The 2013/2014 school year marks the first year of the new core curriculum at Laurier Brantford, called the Brantford Foundations. In ...

It’s safe to say that most Canadians have never heard of the town of Cambridge Bay, never mind being able to locate it on a map. The same could be said of Lynette and Sean Holmes, until three years ago. At th...

Miss New York Nina Davuluri won the 2014 Miss America Pageant Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J. (Photo courtesy of Reuters) By now we have all heard that last Sunday, Nina Davuluri, an Indian-American woman, wo...

Part of Laurier Brantford’s growth and evolution has been the addition of new programs to attract a wider variety of students to its ever-expanding campus. After the addition of RCE and 97 Dalhousie Street, t...