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Jansher Saeed
| February 14, 2025
Student housing rental vacancies have hit a historic high in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo while rent continues to rise. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), this year, rental vacancies across the region have reached their highest level since 1993.
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Veronica Reiner
| February 12, 2025
All UW campuses, including Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and Stratford, will close early today due to significant snowfall that could affect the safety of travel to and from campuses.
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Justin Gec
| February 4, 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called a provincial election scheduled to take place on Feb. 27, more than a year ahead of the initial election date set for June 2026.
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Humreet Sandhu
| January 30, 2025
One of Ontario's worst polar vortices in over a decade struck the Waterloo Region on Jan. 20. Temperatures in certain areas of southern Ontario plunged to as low as -30 C.
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Veronica Reiner
| January 27, 2025
The sentencing for Geovanny Villalba Aleman, who stabbed a professor and two students during a gender issues lecture at UW’s Hagey Hall in June 2023, was delayed to March 17. The decision was originally scheduled for today, Jan. 27.
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Christiano Choo
| January 17, 2025
The Canadian government has announced several immigration policy changes relating to international students leading up to 2025, notably an increase in the cost-of-living requirements for applicants from $10,000 to $20,645 and a 10 per cent reduction from 485,000 permits in 2024 to 437,000 in 2025.
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Humreet Sandhu
| January 13, 2025
This summer the City of Waterloo will be hiring over 85 staff to support camps, programming, special events, aquatics, and parks. The city will be offering full-time, part-time and contract roles with staff being paid at least $20.90.
