The Tie That Binds WLU Since 1926 Serving the Waterloo campus, The Cord seeks to provide students with relevant, up to date stories. We’re always interested in having more volunteer writers, photographers and graphic designers.

1 day ago · The Waterloo Region is facing an opioid crisis. According to Cameron Dearlove, the executive director at Porchlight Counseling and Addiction Services, it is worsening. Throughout 2024, the Waterloo Region Integrated Drug Strategy (WRIDS) issued multiple overdose alerts, highlighting a persistent ...

1 day ago · That invention has shaped my life in dangerous ways — I can have unbearably smug conversations about Sufjan Stevens with people I’ve never met or spin out about how the Smashing Pumpkins somehow wrote music seemingly specifically for me in the mid-1990s. Despite the ways recorded music objectively enriched my life, it also has distinct downsides. It has enforced a strict hierarchy on the ...

23 hours ago · The meandering path is undertaken at a sauntering pace where we can appreciate the beauty of travel. “This is the way you should enter or exit the portal of travel, through a corridor of beauty with a lingering story of its past, and a sense of slow and melancholic ease,” she writes. In a loosely chronological order, Mulloy begins with her …

Jan 9, 2025 · Each year, Laurier welcomes a writer in residence who spends ten weeks at the university working with students and the greater community. On Jan. 22,… Read more

Apr 26, 2024 · On Friday, Feb. 23, protestors gathered in front of Waterloo Regional Police Services headquarters in solidarity with Nicholas Nembhard, a schizophrenic Black man who… Read more

Sep 1, 2023 · The then editorial staff of three explained that The College Cord would bind the students at Waterloo College together through common feelings of love, sorrow, joy, hope and sympathy. Today, after dropping ‘College’ from our name, The Cord operates with an editorial and managerial staff of nine. Despite our ever-changing society, past and present members of The Cord have continued to bind ...

Sep 7, 2009 · This edition of The Cord marks an important moment in the rich history of our 84-year-old publication. At 44 pages, not only is it the largest issue we’ve ever printed, but it also marks the launch of an important change in the design and content of the publication. After introducing new sections of the paper in May – In Depth, Local and National – and significantly overhauling others ...

Jan 9, 2025 · This article was cross-published with The Sputnik. After 32 days on the picket line in front of their office Brantford’s Canada post employees were instructed to return to work by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) under the direction of the Minister of Labour. Canada post workers in Brantford say this isn’t the end of the …

Dear valued readers, Whether you are a current or past student, a member of Laurier’s staff or faculty, an individual in the community, a former Cordie or simply a person who picks up this paper and reads our articles each week, I want to extend my immeasurable gratitude to you for supporting student media. In a frightening time that generates heightened levels of …