Category: Features

It couldn’t have been more perfect timing. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was wrapping up his meeting with First Nation leaders in Ottawa on January 11, I arrived at the heart of…

Perspectives and priorities of the year vary from person to person, with age as a determining factor. With the beginning of 2013 comes the reflection of 2012 through the eyes of individuals…

December 21, 2012 has come and gone, and I am still alive to tell you that nothing happened (but I’m sure you’re aware of that yourself). However, people around the world were…

A photo essay by Olivia Rutt                                                    …

LAURIER STUDENT PROFILE Jensen Stanley Q: What does Movember mean to you? A: Changing the face of men’s health. Raising money for prostate cancer research.   Q: Who is your biggest motivation…

Walter Cronkite Length of moustached life: 92 years What he did with his moustache: Broadcast journalism Notable accomplishments: Often cited as “the most trusted man in America.” Covered bombings in World War…

  It is a scene with which most of us are familiar. An evaluation has not gone well and now the class has to figure out what to do about it. The…

  A university campus is a bubble floating through society. In this tiny transparent space, we have our own food, dress code, language and social customs. Those who have ever seen the…

  Though it may not come as a surprise to anyone, science has succeeded in proving that friendships between men and women are, in fact, difficult. A new study in the Journal…

Curiosity kills more than just cats in the horror genre. It kills zombies, vampires, werewolves, monsters, and humans. What is seldom admitted, however, is that we as humans have an inherent fascination…

A month into the semester, students are settling in at campus. They’re combining midterms with school clubs and events, while trying to maintain a social life. It seems cruel to ask students…

“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut, and no other girls can say anything about it. The hard core girls…

On the website Essay Experts Inc., a slick salesman on a YouTube video pitches to customers “model papers” that are “completely customized and 100 per cent original, with no plagiarism!” A disclaimer…

This year, despite the amount of enthusiastic fans at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Homecoming game, the event itself went surprisingly well. In order to ensure that the environment was as safe as possible,…

Hundreds stood in crowds at stores throughout the country for the release of Apple’s iPhone 5 on September 21st. With the world’s fixation on Apple products today, it comes as little surprise…

The best medicine for the midterm blues this season is most likely in or around your own backyard. The Grand River is one of the most accessible places to get your outdoor,…

Peacocking is an illustrious, time-honored tradition. It is the refuge of the elaborate, the joy of the stylish, and at least in popular perception, the bane of the outlier. For so long,…

As long as there is life, there will be citizen journalism. This has been the reality for the world of media since the very beginning. People have always been interested in sharing…

You have a major paper due this week. You haven’t started yet, and you have no idea where to even begin. If you haven’t been in this situation yet as a university…

With the first week of September comes the epitome of every first year student’s life at Laurier Brantford: Orientation Week. If you are shy, scared, nervous, excited, or even a mixture of…

Brantford is weird. There’s really no way of getting around it, but after a good deal of subjective research, it seems to be one of its most positive attributes. This city; home…