Tag: culture
PART Anti-Racism Book Club
On Jan. 18, the President’s Anti-Racism Taskforce (PART) held its monthly session of their anti-racism book club. PART launched the book club in July...
Are conservative parents a threat to our mental growth?
As students, we know that strict parents are hardly uncommon. Unlike the lucky ones, we had curfews and rules, and some of us were...
UW to hold Asian Heritage Month speakers’ panel on identity, perceptions...
The University of Waterloo is hosting a virtual event called the “Explorations of Asian Identity, Perceptions and Belonging,” scheduled for Tuesday, May 25 from...
What Mexican land defenders told us at a bar on a...
One of the most eye opening experiences during my trip to Mexico was a community talk at a local bar.
To immerse ourselves into the...
Through our Waterloo Windows: Lifting Spirits and Keeping Communities Together
While people across the world are physically distancing, Create Waterloo’s Through our Waterloo Windows project is keeping the city connected.
“The project allows people to...
The Year of the Rat
Unlike the solar calendar that is based on the sun’s movement, the Chinese follow the Lunar calendar that is based on the phases of...
For the Children
Films are gradually aiming for younger audiences, but niche activities are catering more and more to mature audiences.
Children and teens are the only ones...
Holocaust banner defaced
A Holocaust Education Week banner was vandalized with antisemitic political slogans on November 4.
The exhibit at which the vandalization occurred was hosted by Hillel Waterloo/Laurier....
One sky over all: celebrating diversity
As a child, Shu Zhang avoided anything considered ‘cute.’
Now 22, she fills that blank in her childhood by actively dressing in Lolita fashion—a Japanese...
One corner of the world to another
University is a new adventure in the lives of most students, but is especially novel for international students.
Students who come to Canada specifically to...