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One Year Check in with Kitchener City Council
As we currently sit in the middle of our Federal election, memories of last year’s municipal seem so far away.
Yet, only last October, Kitchener’s city counci...
Put Your X-Disc-C Records On
There are many treasures to be discovered in Kitchener’s downtown core that you may often walk past, unassuming. Tucked away on the corner of Moyer Place and Ma...
How Fiqir Worku Advocated for Space on UW Campus
Imagine you’re a couple years from graduating post-secondary and frustrated with the system. It’s late. You work a lot. You study a lot. In need of a space to v...
In Her Shoes Offers New Opportunities
Dreaming of the perfect pair of designer shoes or handbag for a discounted price? In Her Shoes is helping women who are visible minorities, as well as cis, tran...
Wisecracking Their Way to #KWFamous
Robin Lindner and Elaine Decleir, co-founders of the #KWFamous hashtag, are hot off the release of their latest creation. The design, nicknamed “the squad,” is ...
If Streets Could Talk: King St. East
It’s been a year and a half since my workplace, the Commons Studio, moved from Queen Street near the Walper Hotel to a freshly renovated storefront on King Stre...
Breaking the Perception of Pool
Years ago, I convinced my father to buy a pool table at a yard sale. It had a large, questionable stain on the felt near one of the corner pockets and barely fi...
Sweet and Wholesome: The Best Donut in Waterloo Region
Donuts are a perfect food. They can be sweet or savoury, filled or topped, plain or extravagant, small or large. I like the types of food where the name doesn’t...
With Stars in his Eyes and Foundation on his Brush
On a late July afternoon, 56 contestant models filtered in and out across the carpeted hallway of the Edward Hotel in Markham. Cambridge-based makeup artist And...