Greetings and welcome to Laurier Brantford! If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re an incoming student. This edition of the Sputnik has been designed especially for you, in the hopes that we can make some introductions and address some of the anxious questions you might have about (y)our school and (y)our city. We’ve dressed this issue as a survival guide, to give you the benefit of our experience and knowledge as current students of Laurier Brantford with...

The Students’ Union elections are upon us, and candidates for the Brantford Campus Council, Board of Directors and President and CEO of WLUSU are actively campaigning for the vote. The one position missing from the ballot the last few years is that of the head of WLUSU at our Brantford Campus: the executive vice presidentof Brantford operations. While this position was once elected by students, it is now hired internally by our elected president and a hiring committee. This brings...

In this article, the first in a series of unsigned editorials from the Sputnik, we’ll be taking a look at one of the most sensitive wartime issues: torture and specifically, what stance Canada should adopt on torture.

There is an immediate feeling that torture is somehow innately wrong, that it flies in the face of what it means to be a citizen of “the West.” It’s barbaric: human beings are put through the most physically and psychologically traumatic punishments imaginable...