Category: News

The weather has not been too kind to Canadians this winter season. With extreme cold weather alerts for temperatures reaching -23 degrees Celsius with wind chill, most people have been wanting to stay inside to keep warm,…

The Brantford-Norfolk-Haldimand Proud Boys chapter has become far more active since taking on the free speech debate started by Lindsay Shepherd, a TA at Laurier Waterloo who showed controversial clips in a…

If you’re looking for somewhere to hangout that is cheap and fun, The Bent King Boardgame Cafe is the place for you. Co-owners Adam Dexter and Patrick Huxley opened the Boardgame Cafe…

Laurier’s International Education Week took place Nov. 13-17 and many clubs on campus – one in particular –  took part in celebrating.  “As the Intercultural Student Association of Brantford (ISAB), we felt…

With fall finally arriving and temperatures dropping, it is around this time of year illness really starts to spread. More specifically influenza, better known as the flu, starts making an appearance. As…

 The Christmas Basket Programs runs every year in Brantford since perhaps the 1930’s providing everyone the Christmas they deserve with food and toys. Run by the Brantford Food Bank and Salvation Army, this…

Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) hosted their first part of an educational series called Resistance 101 talking about capitalism on Oct 25.   LSPIRG is a non-profit organization which helps advocate…

Tensions are rising across the province as Oct 30 marks the third week of the Ontario college strike.  And yet, the crowd of Conestoga instructors protesting outside Odeon is a big as ever, if not growing.   The…

Recently, Laurier Brantford hosted two individuals from Mexico who had been deported from the US after being raised there as they were the children of illegal immigrants. Maggie Loredo and Sayra Hernandez are both involved in…

It’s no surprise that midterm season is a stressful time for just about every university student. Even less surprising is the fact that midterms can be almost impossible to deal with if…

The Sexual Assault Centre of Brantford hosted the Take Back the Night event on Sept 21 promoting women’s rights including a march for women, children, trans and non-binary individuals.   The event was open to students…

Canadian Police are concerned that the sale of illegal cigarettes is funding organized crime and gang activity. Criminal gangs are supposedly using the profit from the sales of these contraband cigarettes to fund guns,…

The Brantford public library, currently under construction, is undergoing many changes, both inside and out, to make it a more comfortable and accessible space for customers.    In 1992, the Brantford library moved from…

TEDx is coming to Brantford. A group of talented and dedicated Laurier students are working to bring inspiring ideas to the Laurier and Brantford community by starting the TEDxWLUBrantford initiative.   Based on the…

  On Sept 15, the Laurier Brantford Diversity and Equity office (DEO) and the Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) held a Black Lives Matter Breakfast in the west wing of the Research…

As part of their Radical Orientation Week, the Laurier Student Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) hosted a presentation by No One is Illegal on September 12.   No One is Illegal is a social justice organization that fights for the rights…

  On Sept 19th, at 4 p.m., the Research and Academic Centre was filled with students who were interested in the idea of sharing their stories and experiences through film.    The opportunity…

Researchers at Western University in London may have discovered a drug that can reverse the psychiatric effects that chronic marijuana use can have on adolescents’ developing brains.   Frequent marijuana use has been linked to psychiatric…

From September 11 to September 15, Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) ran their Radical Orientation Week, or Rad Week.   The concept is similar to Orientation Week, but promotes activism and involvement on both Laurier campuses. Jayden Lavallie, who…

Laurier hopes to make the transition to university life easier for incoming students with a new website and intranet.  The website, launched last summer, allows not only easy access to everything needed to succeed in…

Wilfrid Laurier University student, Halina (Lin) Haag, is the recipient of the 2017-2018 Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her developmental research in the area of traumatic brain injury caused by intimate partner violence.  …

For many first year students, move in day and the first day of Orientation Week can be incredibly daunting. Starting a new chapter in a new place can be scary. But O-week ice breakers, residence dons, and other…

The city of Brantford is about to experience a surge of architectural growth, and students from Wilfrid Laurier University may see more space for student housing.  On Aug. 10, Brantford real estate broker Sean…

Snapchat has attempted to keep its throne by adding new a feature Snap Map. In an effort to keep its users from abandoning it for other platforms, like Instagram, Snapchat has added a map plug-in. This plug-in, called the…

This summer Laurier Brantford students in the Game Design program worked closely with an organization called Workforce Planning Board of Grand Erie in order to develop a game called SUSPECT. Charlene Hofbauer, Communications and Project Coordinator…

From July 5 to July 8, the city of Brantford celebrated its forty-fourth annual International Villages Cultural Festival. The four-day festival treated the citizens of Brantford to a variety of food, drink, and entertainment from 16 different…

Ethereum has taken the altcoin spotlight following a boom in value of ether. Ethereum is a blockchain platform created by University of Waterloo dropout Vitalik Buterin. A blockchain is effectively a public record of something. Whatever that something is depends on…