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Housing minister Sean Fraser visits Grad House

Earlier today, Canada’s minister of housing Sean Fraser visited the UW Graduate House (Grad House) to discuss the announcement of the Housing Accelerator Fund....

Provincial byelection called for Kitchener Centre

A byelection was called yesterday for Kitchener Centre, with the voting date set for Nov. 30. The riding has been vacant since the resignation...

Students and faculty react to UW statements on Israel-Palestine

The recent surge in violence between Israel and Palestine has attracted great attention from the media, world leaders, and global institutions alike. Like many...

Waterloo Regional Police investigate suspicious person incidents near UW

The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) continues to investigate suspicious person incidents taking place in the University District of Waterloo. According to the WRPS website,...

Students call for WUSA Reform

At noon today, UW students gathered at a silent sit-in at the upstairs SLC roundtable to advocate for WUSA reform. Among the stated goals...

Tim Hortons in SLC reopens

After a temporary closure last week, the Tim Hortons located in SLC is open for business once again.  The closure occurred after UW Food Services...

Letters from home:

As an international student, I’ve always found CBC, CTV News and Global News – three of the largest Canadian news sources – to be interesting. Often,...

Smartphones: friend or foe?

We all own a smartphone, but why do we need one? The straightforward reply is to lead a normal life and not be a caveman. Smartphones...

Who cares about a student newspaper in 2019?

People are consuming more content than at any other point in history and something like a university news outlet appears as outdated as the...

BASE brings Black History Month to Waterloo

Koffi Olomide’s Afrobeat sound flowed through the Student Life Centre’s front hall. “This is the music I grew up listening to,” Elisa Umuhoza, the vice...