New Policy 8: Freedom of Speech
In the summer of 2018, the Ford government announced many changes for Ontario. Among them was the new requirement for universities and colleges to...
Glow pledges to fight OSAP changes Students attend Day of Action at Glow to...
For their Monday Funday, the Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity organized a day of action on Jan. 21 to generate awareness about...
Council in brief: City of Waterloo
Waterloo Park Lake Frontage Reconstruction
Council approved spending $772,000 for the Lake Frontage Reconstruction.
The proposed scope of this project includes detailed design and public consultation...
Fighting discrimination in the community Fiqir Worku is making UW a more welcoming place...
Fiqir Worku is an incredibly humble Health Studies student, who is heavily interested in and involved with social justice. She was also one of...
Last Canada Day celebration at UW
The last time UW students will see Canada Day fireworks on campus is in 2019.
The University has hosted the celebration for 35 years.
But its...
More students opting to live in LLC’s
More students are opting for living-learning communities each year across Canada. Living-learning communities (LLC) group like-minded students in the same program, together in the...
Forced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada still prevalent
Sixty Indigenous women are filing a class-action lawsuit claiming they were forcibly sterilized. Some of the sterilizations occurred as late as 2017. The lawsuit...
UW startup begins lung cancer detection trials
KA Imaging paired with Grand River Hospital to launch a pilot study of their portable lung screening x-ray detector. The device promises to cut...
Search suspended for missing Waterloo hiker
Rick Eastep, 32, went missing in California during a hike in early January. Eastep, a University of Waterloo employee and an avid outdoorsman, was...
Major changes to OSAP in 2019-2020
Students accross Ontario are facing major changes to the structure of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) in the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.
On Jan....
