Forget Textbooks…Go Book Shopping!
The lazy person’s answer to getting involved in the local community? Go shopping! Instead of buying your books and mags at Chapters, take a drive through Waterloo and Kitchener for some great used bookstores. Like most second hand shops, KW’s used book stores are locally owned and operated, often employing neighborhood students. These stores offer [...]
Outside the Pink Box
Here in Waterloo, a small group of students are working towards some serious change for gender equality in education. Not only is the Waterloo chapter of the Miss G__ Project creating awareness about a serious issue, they are actively participating in our community by teaching these values to the younger generation.
Nostalgia: Missing Stories
Thinking about time is always a complicated process. It is an all encompassing concept, such a grandiose notion. Time. I automatically associate the past with nostalgia. What a strange concept “nostalgia” is. Not only the thought of it, but the feeling; that longing feeling. But I love how it is totally malleable. My problem is [...]
Escape Cruelty In Our Comunity
Face it – we are back to routines and back to reality. In an effort to make our school days as memorable as possible, consider looking outside the Laurier community and into the larger Kitchener-Waterloo region. In our community there are many that are in need of a little compassion, support and assistance. Cruelty to [...]
Vegetarians Make a Difference
Here’s a little food for thought: those nuggets and chicken strips that have found a final resting place in your freezer are more dangerous than you think. Ninety percent of all chicken flesh sold to consumers is splattered with salmonella and other harmful bacteria, leaving 500 people a year dead of salmonella “flu”. You wonder, [...]
Okay Capitalism, Bad Apples
It is no wonder the clever new documentary The Corporation won the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It draws much-needed attention to the practices of the huge companies that have taken over the world. The film explores the idea that if corporations can be defined under the law as individual persons, their collective behaviour can be described as being consistent with that of a psychopath, according to the DSM—psychology’s manual for diagnosis.
