Author: Brittany Bennett

“The person we’ve hired has really made the position, and I think that’s key to this. We have a caring, compassionate, smart, confident, strong, intelligent person,” says Adam Lawrence, Laurier Brantford’s dean…

Disclosure: Brittany Bennett is a co-founder of Advocates for a Student Culture of Consent (ASCC) “Don’t rape” the red and black shirts spell out for us as volunteers move about the front…

Meet Brantford, the secret city of sex and arousalW Some know Brantford as the Telephone City, or the hometown of that hockey player Wayne Gretzky, or as that city near Six Nations…

Photography Editor, Christina Manocchio and Features Editor, Brittany Bennett try their hands at “professional” beer tasting for the very first time. Looking to give the student’s an honest review of craft beers…

[starbox]   Alzheimer’s is a cognitive disease that destroys brain cells, and in effect, deteriorates memories beginning with short-term and slowly progressing to long-term memories. “Everything you’ve ever learned in your life,…

[starbox] Leaning back in his comfy couch, a couch that seats many different people coming in and out daily, he explains, “I’m pretty much just the stereotypical, friendly, neighbourhood pot dealer.”  …

[starbox] Meet Lynda Vanderstelt, the candle maker.   As soon as you walk through the door of Serenity Country Candles located in Brantford’s Holmedale core, your spirits are lifted as you feel…

        Meet the Santas, spreading holiday cheer in their big red suits. Santa Dale has been strapping on his fake beard for over ten years now. At the age…

Owner: Kyla Garvagh Name: Chewbacca Breed: Tabby cat Age: 2 Wish list: Lots of hair ties Fun fact: This fury ball loves helping his humans open their gifts Christmas morning    …

Laughter is a universal, natural phenomenon shared around the world in the lives of human beings. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, where you came from, or how you were raised,…

Meet Riley Campbell, the retro pop artist. Now we’re not talking about the next Justin Bieber here. This is actual pop art: a cultural movement that took the 60s art world to…

Popular chatter on the street in regards to restaurants are whispering the scary idea that nine out of ten first-time restaurants will fail within their first year. Brantford local, Justin Hensen is…

Meet Syd Bolton, the super geek. Walking up to 13 Alma Street in Brantford Ontario, a typical bungalow seems nothing but ordinary. The garage door is wide open, but it’s not a…

As soon as you walk through the doors of any campus building you can see it – students rushing to their next class, studying at tables or talking with friends on the…

Pulling into the parking lot I can tell I have the right place, as a lady in hot pink above lures my attention to the sign titled “Allure Fitness Inc.” “Get sexy, get fit.” Allure Fitness is no ordinary fitness studio.…

Meet Benjamin Rogers, the folk artist. Benjamin had a guitar in his hands by the time he was one year old, which was actually photographed on the front page of the Brantford Expositor…

Post-secondary education is in higher demand than it has ever been before. Not only do employers love to see a college or university education listed on your resume, they expect it. In…