Category: Features

“Hi, can I have a veggie wrap and a medium double-double please?” These are the words I speak at William’s on Thursday nights in between class. Trail mix, soup, wraps, lentils, and…

In elementary school students are told to wear poppies, stand, and take their hats off for a moment of silence. They’re ushered into a crowded auditorium or gym and sit listening as…

The time was roughly 9:30 PM. The sky was clear, and the streets of Brantford were vacant and pitch black: ah, the perfect night for an adventure. My accomplice and I tiptoed…

Trooper Larry John Zuidema Rudd, of the Royal Canadian Dragoons based in CFB Petawawa, ON, always wanted to be in the army. It didn’t even matter what country he served under. His…

Tarot card readings, astrology, clairvoyance and windows to the future. From fellow human beings who have tapped into another plane of existence come these wonderful gifts – all for a price. Brantford’s…

Perhaps best known for his on-camera work on A&E’s Paranormal State, Chip Coffey is quickly becoming one of the best-known contemporary examples of a psychic. During his career, which began in early…

This year’s Local/Global Peace Festival featured the Brant-Brantford Roundtable on Poverty, and the Community Garden. A non-gardener, features editor Meagan Gillmore decided to learn more about this simple project. Dorothy Thom is…

Perhaps The Lion King isn’t completely inaccurate: Africa truly is a stunning, beautiful continent. That’s what Nipissing students Lindsey Newton and Jessica McSavage learned when they travelled to Botswana for May and…

Each month, Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications will feature a charity as part of its new Cause of the Month initiative. For September, the cause is the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation &…

J. Edward Chamberlin can do many things. He has helped write recommendations for governments; travelled through South Africa, Alaska, and Australia; ridden horses in Mongolia; been a hunting guide through British Columbia.…

This is the south side of Colborne Street, just beyond Grand River Hall. On the morning Tuesday June 8th, 2010, a high-reach excavator slammed into the upper corner of 35-37 Colborne Street…

David Prang, Director of Student Services His job: enhancing student life at Laurier Brantford through working with faculty, staff and students. Where he can be found: Second floor of the Student Centre.…

Eating healthy has become difficult nowadays. Fast food restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s are popping up all over the place and they’re radically changing our diets. Being at university makes…

If you’re like me, then you’re unfortunate enough to be a commuting student in your first year at a new school. Not living in residence can make you feel like you’re not…

Congratulations! You’ve made it to university and in a few months you’ll be out of your parents’ house and living in a hotbed of sex and lust. For this installment of Sex…

Best pint of beer? Moose Winooski’s (www.moosewinooskis.com). Cheapest cocktail? Therapy, a close-to-campus spot with student specials every Tuesday night (search for “Therapy Lounge – Brantford” on Facebook). Best place to party on…

As summer starts to fade away and the school year looms ahead, one thing is certain: on the other side, waiting for all of us, will be readings, classes, readings and more…

On March 27 at 8:30 p.m., people worldwide will take a stand against global warming. Earth Hour is the largest environmental movement in recent history. It is a global agreement to make…

Kevin Samuels (name has been changed to protect his anonymity), is average. You would not stop on the street if you saw him, and you probably wouldn’t be able to pick him…

“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you could’ve got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.” Matt Damon’s cheeky line from Good Will Hunting…

What were your thoughts when you first found out you won the WLUSU presidency? I was excited! I mean, you work so hard. We started planning for this is in August. We…

Imagine: A mother spends her life looking after her baby, watching her grow, living through the nightmares that accompany puberty. And then one day, her child is gone. Maybe she ran away.…

Charlie was abandoned when he was six years old. No one knows for how long he was chained to the floor of his empty home, or how long he had gone without…

It may be lunch hour, but Kristjen’s Cafe at 97 Colborne St. was noticeably empty on a Thursday in mid-October. A lone customer occupied a table while owner Lana Plank and her…

Genevieve Thompson doesn’t consider herself a pack rat, necessarily. Sitting in her living with boxes and various items – a barbecue, bicycles – scattered around, the 46-year old resident of 125 Colborne…

There are some things that I can’t imagine myself doing, jobs that I can’t imagine occupying. Somewhere on that long list is being in the armed forces. But when I got the…

It’s been just over two years since Mark Rzeszutek joined the Primary Reserves, the largest of the four components of the Canadian Forces reserves. A fourth year student studying comprehensive psychology and…

In the beginning, “vampires” ran Laurier Brantford. Sitting in the office he has used since he started at Laurier Brantford, Gary Warrick recalled the long nights he and Peter Farrugia spent in…