Quarantine cooking

PHOTO BY SARA SHEIKH / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY   With the lockdown ending for many regions in Ontario, students are eager to leave quarantine in the past.   A lot of generation-defining trends came out through quarantine, like TikTok coffee,…

Categories: Arts & Culture

Common vices among university students

As this semester goes, common vices like procrastination and unbalanced eating habits start to rise again which disturb the students’ lives in Laurier Brantford. “I am really trying to avoid procrastination, that’s the one thing I am trying to stay…

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#Halfahawknomore: Laurier students campaign for library

#Halfahawknomore is the popular hashtag swirling around social media after Luc Daviau, Aryan Arvandi and Victoria Wong’s effort to promote the idea of an academic library on the Laurier Brantford campus. With the recent purchase of Market Square, many students…

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Anna Osei named Outstanding Woman of Laurier

The tenth annual Outstanding Women of Laurier (OWL) banquet, hosted on March 25, 2015 at the Waterloo Conference Inn Hotel, was a huge success, with the largest turnout since 2008. The award for the Outstanding Women of Laurier is based…

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Women’s basketball team loses in double-OT shocker

One of the best women’s basketball teams in Canada had their historic 2014-2015 season cut short on February 28 in a thrilling double-overtime upset at the hands of Queen’s University in the quarter-final of the OUA playoffs, 85-78. The Golden…

Categories: Sports

Girls’ hockey team falls in the quarters on home ice

On February 6, Wilfrid Laurier Brantford’s extramural girls’ hockey team faced a disappointing loss in the quarter finals. The tournament, held at the Wayne Gretzky Complex, was the girls’ first tournament at home this year. The girls’ team has proven…

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Powderpuff football sells its players short

When you think “powderpuff”, football isn’t what comes to mind. But year in and year out in one of the largest growing women’s sports, that’s what their brand of football is called, and it couldn’t do a worse job describing…

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Annual career fair for criminology and law students a success

The annual career fair for Criminology and Law students took place on Nov.14th in the RCW lobby. The event allowed for students to touch base with professionals, learn about career opportunities and gather information about different organizations that can employ…

Categories: On Campus

Laurier’s fight on the mental health front

Mental health has become a topic of importance over the past few years, and Wilfrid Laurier University has acknowledged this more readily than most other Canadian universities; between their newly enacted fall reading week and other improvements such as the…

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Mental health does not define you

You will never make it to university!  Why can’t you just be happier? I don’t understand why you’re like this! Just snap out of it! Sometimes, people do not have a wide understanding about mental health.  This misunderstanding of mental…

Categories: Opinion

Ontario government working to lighten student’s tuition

The Ontario Tuition Grant (OTG) has undergone its annual increase, and the Province is looking to encourage more post-secondary students to apply. For Ontario undergrads in University and College degree programs, the grant is now valued at $1780, or $890…

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Time to get our hands dirty with the YMCA project

The long awaited YMCA is finally breaking ground as construction is set to start this fall and be carried out on schedule for the two-year build. “It’s what we’ve been planning from the very start,” said Brian Rosborough, Senior Executive…

Categories: On Campus

The start of an O-Week for every type of first-year

That time of the year is here: Orientation Week! I can’t believe it was only a year ago that I was such a mixture of nerves and excitement at this exact time. I recall everyone being so welcoming the first…

Categories: Opinion

The honest truth about the locals of Brantford

Since coming to Brantford, I’ve heard a lot about “the locals”. How someone pulled a knife at 2 a.m. on one of my friends, how someone started a fight at local nightclub NV, just because one of my friends made…

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Brantford: The rebirth of a community

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 city’s main industry left…

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Arrest made in York University shooting

After a weeklong investigation, Toronto Police have apprehended and charged a person they believe to be the gunman involved with last week’s shooting at York University. 22-year-old Kemon Edwards has been charged with discharging a firearm and endangering lives. Two…

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