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It’s the beginning of the year and all I can think about are beginnings. It’s amazing how they happen. Sometimes, you can’t even tell that something is a beginning until… Continue reading "You Just Never Know – Part 1 (Marc Laferriere, @MarcLaferriere)"
It’s about doing what’s right. It’s been 16 months since we published our first edition of the Brant Advocate; a locally-owned and community-driven newsprint publication that highlights the people of… Continue reading "We Believe in Partnerships (Andrew Macklin, @AMacklin & Lucas Duguid, @OctopusRed)"
It may sound trivial, but when I was first touring Laurier Brantford, the one thing that really sold me on living here was Victoria Park. I came in the springtime… Continue reading "Learning To Love Brantford (Kaya Firth)"
I opened my Facebook page on Tuesday morning to a splendid mess, one of those “group messages” where everyone Replies All. The grammar and spelling were…well, small children and English… Continue reading "Moving to Brantford (Layne Becker Grime)"
As a little girl, my sister Angie and I would try and spend as much time as possible at our Nana and Granddad’s Devon St home in Brantford’s Henderson Survey. … Continue reading "Visiting Nana and Granddad (Stacey Farrant, @BrantfordDiva)"
The Ontario’s government’s Bill 115 has created a crisis in our schools. Students have been lleft in the dark, completely in the dark, some of us more than others. The… Continue reading "Reflections on Bill 115 (Kyndra Donaldson, @kyndra_316)"
To start with, you all must know that I am a Jesus geek – Christian, if you prefer, but rather obsessed with God, Jesus, church, and all that goes with… Continue reading "Confessions of a Knocked Up Jesus Geek (Becca Vandekemp, @beccavdk)"
Katimavik, a program that’s touched millions, enlisted thousands, and changed for the better hundreds of communities across Canada, is officially no more. Its cancellation, and other strong austerity measures like… Continue reading "Katimavik: Why It Matters To Us (Leisha Senko, @LeishaSenko)"
On the website Essay Experts Inc., a slick salesman in a YouTube video on the main-page pitches to customers “model papers” that are “completely customized and 100 per cent original,… Continue reading "Commonplace: Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct (Graeme Gordon, @Sputnik_News)"
“How did I get here?” I ask that question as my clothes get drenched in smoke from my third barbeque of the week; watching local politicians converse in front of… Continue reading "Off Campus: My Degree in Participation (Becca Vandekemp, @beccavdk)"