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Avant-Garde

Those that know me know that I'm an avid cyclist. I love to maneuver through city traffic at rush hour, and, paradoxically, I feel much safer riding 20 pounds of aluminum than in a cocoon of steel and glass. But I wasn't always this way. My dad can attest to my early teen car obsession - …

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Tempest in a Tweet-pot

There's a fair bit of knee-jerk criticism making the rounds about this INDEVOURS event next week. So I thought I'd share my opinion on the matter. Next Friday, the University of Waterloo's International Development program will be hosting an event featuring Roy Sesana, an activist for indigenous …

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Prologue: Apathetic Students or a Pathetic System?

On Friday, the first installment of my new biweekly column was published in Imprint. Broadly, I'm going to write about politics on a local, national, and global level - and how political issues impact students. Or, more to the point, why we should care about the way we're governed. My first column …

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Hoop Jumping 101

I'm in the University of Waterloo's co-op program, which means my schooling is interspersed with chunks of work experience to let me get some practical knowledge of the field. It's a great system on the whole, but talk to any co-op student at UW and they'll tell you the same thing: PD is terrible. …

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