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In Waterloo Region, the pursuit of knowledge is not confined to university lecture halls or early-career ambitions. For over a decade, Third Age Learning Kitchener-Waterloo (TAL KW) has served as a fixture for residents—primarily retirees, work-from-home professionals and lifelong learners—who are looking to engage deeply with critical global issues and local community affairs. Each fall […]

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Canada @[email protected]

2026-07-13

Canadian study suggests social norms rival economics in climate fight and can sway action abroad

Efforts to cut emissions in one region can echo far beyond it, influencing public support for climate action…
#Canada #climateaction #climatechange #climatechangemitigation #climatemodels #climaterisk #NatureCommunications #Socialnorms #UniversityofWaterloo
https://www.europesays.com/canada/127448/

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2026-07-07

BASM PRESENTS PAINTED RHYTHMS

On June 13, 2026, local artist Basm launched his exhibition, Painted Rhythms, at Holly’s Neighbourhood Cafe and Bar.

Basm is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and filmmaker based in the Waterloo Region. Known for creating interactive, multi-sensory experiences, he produces mixed media works that blend painting, video and live music. His projects span multiple disciplines, […]

https://www.communityedition.ca/basm-presents-painted-rhythms/

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Ireland @[email protected]

2026-06-03

https://www.europesays.com/ie/516671/ NeuroSense Device Tracks Brain Fluid to Detect Infections #BrainResearch #Éire #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #neurobiology #neurology #Neuroscience #NeuroSense #neurotech #UniversityOfWaterloo

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Europe Says @[email protected]

2026-05-29

https://www.europesays.com/3026269/ Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Zap Hate Speech #AboriginalAffairs #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigotryOnline #ChildWelfare #EuropeanUnion #feminism #HateSpeech #IEEECanadianFoundation #January6UnitedStatesCapitolAttack #NickCerconeGraduateScholarshipInComputerScienceAward #OnlineRadicalization #OnlineTrolls #Poverty #RuPaul'sDragRace #UniversityOfWaterloo

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Canada News Beep @[email protected]

2026-05-20

Can vitamin C prevent cancer? Here’s what new research found

For decades, citrus fruits have been go-to remedies when illness strikes. Having oranges during a cold is believed…
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2026-05-20

Can vitamin C prevent cancer? Here’s what new research found

For decades, citrus fruits have been go-to remedies when illness strikes. Having oranges during a cold is believed…
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Ireland @[email protected]

2026-05-20

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UK @[email protected]

2026-05-20

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2026-05-20

Can vitamin C prevent cancer? Here’s what new research found

For decades, citrus fruits have been go-to remedies when illness strikes. Having oranges during a cold is believed…
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2026-05-17

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
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Canada News Beep @[email protected]

2026-05-17

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
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Ireland @[email protected]

2026-05-17

https://www.europesays.com/ie/488784/ Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes #AmericanPhysicalSociety #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #Éire #IE #Ireland #ParticlePhysics #Science #ScientificConsensus #Space #UniversityOfWaterloo

#universityofwaterloo #space #scientificconsensus #science #particlephysics #ireland

The Orkney News [Unofficial] @[email protected]

2026-05-09

More Men from Franklin’s Fatal 1845 Expedition Identified

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The Orkney News [Unofficial] @[email protected]

2026-05-09

More Men from Franklin’s Fatal 1845 Expedition Identified

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海草 @[email protected]

2026-04-30

A classroom in 1981. University of Waterloo, Canada. 🖥️📚

On every desk: a Commodore PET. Monochrome monitor. Built-in cassette drive. Chunky keyboard. No mouse. No internet. Just a blinking cursor and a room full of students learning BASIC.

That "beige box" was the cutting edge.

Now it's a museum piece. But in 1981? That was the future, sitting right in front of them.

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2026-04-16

Waymo is taking steps to get its robotaxis on Toronto streets. But roadblocks await

The autonomous taxi operator Waymo appears to be aiming for the Canadian market, possibly eyeing Toronto as a…
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NewsletterTF @[email protected]

2026-04-09

Engineered Microbes Offer New Angle on Tumor Eradication

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have engineered bacteria to find and eat tumors. This new method could offer a less harmful cancer treatment.

#CancerResearch, #MedicalInnovation, #UniversityOfWaterloo, #TumorEradication, #Biotechnology

https://newsletter.tf/engineered-bacteria-target-tumors-cancer-treatment/

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2026-04-09

Scientists have created special bacteria that can find and eat cancer tumors. This is a new way to fight cancer that could be safer than current treatments.

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Community Edition @[email protected]

2026-04-02

STUDENTS PROTEST OSAP CHANGES

Ontario students across the province are protesting about the recent changes made to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). The Ontario government has announced that, starting this fall, OSAP grants will decrease from a maximum of 85 per cent to 25 per cent.

On Mar. 4, 2026, hundreds of students and community members from across Ontario gathered at Queen’s Park to protest the cuts. Similar protests broke out in different cities, including Waterloo and Ottawa. The OSAP changes are not only affecting post-secondary students but also secondary schools.

At the University of Waterloo, the reaction has been described as historic. Remington Aginskaya-Zhi, Vice President of the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA), noted that the campus is seeing a level of mobilization not seen in decades.

“This is the most engaged we’ve seen students probably ever,” Aginskaya-Zhi said. “The rally that we held was one of the biggest gatherings or protests on campus in probably our entire history.”

The movement is gaining even more traction in the Greater Toronto Area, where students are framing the cuts as a systemic attack on public institutions. Trudi Kiropatwa, a third-year student at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), says the impact in Toronto is extreme.

“We’re essentially on a sinking ship,” Kiropatwa said. “This government and their corporate cronies see us as customers and our education as an industry that is ready to be exploited.”

The urgency stems from a lack of clarity on how these cuts will affect individual bank accounts. According to WUSA, the provincial OSAP estimator for the upcoming year has yet to be released, leaving students in a state of financial limbo.

Kiropatwa noted that for many, the breaking point is graduating into a job market with record-high youth unemployment while saddled with massive debt.

“Me, personally, I’m going to be graduating with tens of thousands of dollars of student debt already without these changes,” she said. “These changes are making the issue ten times worse.”

“Students definitely are very worried,” Aginskaya-Zhi said. “We are hearing stories from students telling us they’re uncertain whether they can come back to school next year, or whether they can pursue graduate studies.”

This uncertainty is already forcing students to make difficult lifestyle changes. Aginskaya reported that some students are opting for longer commutes rather than living in Waterloo to save on costs, while others are seeing their younger siblings reconsider university altogether.

Beyond the provincial level, the University of Waterloo is also grappling with internal budget crisis pressures. Aginskaya-Zhi highlighted that financial support units on campus are currently understaffed, which could complicate the processing of student aid.

“The university right now is understaffed and has lots of challenges to hire new staff…but funding should not come at the cost of giving more debt to students,” she said.

In response, organizations like WUSA and the SMC carried out a massive convergence at Queen’s Park on Mar. 24, 2026. Despite the government maintaining its argument that the 25 per cent grant limit is sustainable, the mobilizations saw hundreds of activists reiterating demands for a full reversal.

“We’re not here to demand a return to normal…which is a Band-Aid solution,” Kiropatwa said. “We’re here fighting for free, democratic, and accessible education.”

“Right now, I think students are angry, and what we are focusing on is giving students an avenue to let out their anger,” Aginskaya-Zhi said.

She emphasized that the momentum will not fade as the semester ends.

“Just because winter term is ending and it’s summer now doesn’t mean that students have forgotten this betrayal from the government.”

As Parliament returns to session, WUSA intends to keep the pressure on local MPPs to ensure the student voice is heard.

“We hear your anger, we hear your frustration,” Aginskaya-Zhi concluded as a message to the student body. “We are going to work to make sure that you can share that with us.”

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United Kingdom News Beep @[email protected]

2026-04-02

Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
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UK @[email protected]

2026-04-02

https://www.europesays.com/uk/867698/ Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang #BigBang #CosmicMicrowaveBackground #Cosmology #EarlyUniverse #InflationTheory #NiayeshAfshordi #PerimeterInstitute #Physics #PrimordialGravitationalWaves #QuantumGravity #Research #Science #SpaceNews #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfWaterloo

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Community Edition @[email protected]

2026-03-11

A WALK AROUND BECHTEL PARK WITH EMILY URQHART

It was author Emily Urquhart’s pup June that brought us out to the Bechtel Dog Park on a grey Saturday afternoon. We were greeted by a well-dressed poodle in boots and an orange jacket, and June and her new friend ran off while Urquhart and I opted for a slower pace.

“Walking is one hundred per cent part of my writing process,” Urquhart said as we followed the path on a loop around a cluster of trees. “[O]ften, when I’m walking, I’m working something out…something about the movement of walking forwards can sometimes shake things out in a way that, if I was sitting at a desk and trying to write, it just doesn’t work.”

Urquhart was born in Kitchener and lived in Waterloo until she was seven, when her family moved to Wellesley. After high school she studied art history and journalism, then ended up at Memorial University in Newfoundland where she completed a PhD in Folklore Studies and also met her future husband. It was his job at the University of Waterloo that brought them back to Ontario to settle with their family in Kitchener.

“I was always interested in folklore,” Urquhart said. “I had this huge Brothers Grimm silver-coloured book that I used to read as a kid a lot. And I was interested in my Irish culture and heritage, and that kind of naturally coincides with folklore.”

Urquhart’s understanding and exploration of folklore goes beyond the written stories of her youth, and includes visual art, gossip, rumours and even home decor and bumper stickers.

“[Folklore is] the way you’re signifying who you are to the world and the story you’re telling about yourself and your place in it,” Urquhart said. “Once you’ve got [folklore] under your belt, it kind of changes your worldview.”

Urquhart explored folklore in her third book, Ordinary Wonder Tales, published in 2022 and shortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She drew on her journalism background for her second book, The Age Of Creativity, published in 2020, in which she examined late-in-life creativity using her father, acclaimed painter Tony Urquhart, as the subject and inspiration.

Her mother, award-winning novelist and poet Jane Urquhart, is also an artistic presence in Urquhart’s life. She was in high school when her mother gained wide-spread notoriety for her novel Away, and people became interested in her last name and family.

“There was a rumour at university that my mom was Jan Arden because there was a broken telephone situation…someone said ‘Jane Urquhart,’ but [someone else] heard Jan Arden,” Urquhart said. “So, I’ve always had a kind of kinship with Jan Arden.”

From an early age, Urquhart was an avid reader and was also drawn to writing.

“I had teachers who [said] ‘oh, you’re such a good writer’…But I’d feel like, is that because my mom’s a writer, or is it coming from an authentic place?” she said. “But I knew I liked to do it, and I also knew that it didn’t pay any money.”

Pursuing a PhD allowed Urquhart to continue reading and writing, and also to have some security in the form of teaching. In addition to being a published author and a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly, Urquhart is also a Professor of Creative Writing at Laurier where she coordinates the Edna Staebler Awards.

It was through The New Quarterly that Urquhart connected with other writers in the area. At the Wild Writers’ Festival in 2019, Urquhart was approached by novelist Carrie Snyder about forming a writer’s group along with author Tasneem Jamal. Urquhart agreed, and they have been writing and workshopping ever since.

“It’s so wonderful to have that community,” Urquhart said. “We write together, which I’d never done…I’ve been through two books with them now.”

Urquhart’s experience of community is one done directly with other people as she is not on any social media. In 2016 she made the decision to leave Facebook when she found the platform to be full of vitriol and in-fighting. She left Twitter not long after.

“It was getting me down,” Urquhart said. “Finally, I was like, no one’s inviting you to this party. You have to stop showing up.”

While she reads poetry daily and cites short stories as a favourite genre, Urquhart is also drawn to some less-expected media.

“I like to watch really trashy documentaries,” Urquhart said. “When I say documentary, people think, ‘Oh, that sounds smart.’ No, I like anything to do with catfishing…I’m really into cults. I just find it fascinating.”

Urquhart’s dog June came over to say a quick hello before going to greet a new arrival. Before adopting June from the Humane Society a year ago, Urquhart and her family rescued a dog from another agency; however, they were unable to keep him because of an aggressive response to walks.

“He was sweet, actually, in the house, but…he wouldn’t go in our yard, so he had to be walked…whenever I walked him, he attacked me,” Urquhart said. “I had leather gloves, they were split open, my parka was split open. I was on the ground trying to shield my face and he had my hand and he didn’t let go.”

The experience did not deter Urquhart from dogs, however.

“I just got obsessed or something after that,” Urquhart said. “I was thinking about dogs, I only watched things about dogs, and then I started writing about it.”

Part of that writing process included painting a watercolour of the destroyed gloves and using visual art as research. What started as memoir turned into a fairy tale.

“I don’t know if the stories I’ve been writing connect as one piece or if they’re connected stories,” Urquhart said.

“But they all have some sort of supernatural…element threaded through them.”

While the move to writing fiction might be new for Urquhart, her background in folklore and careful powers of observation honed through journalism will no doubt mean she is right at home navigating these creative waters.

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2026-03-05

Crest, by #UniversityofWaterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering 2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto #publicart

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2026-03-05

Crest, by #UniversityofWaterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering 2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto #artpublic

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2026-02-11

WATER CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS FORCE TEMPORARY HALT ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS

As of January 2026, the Region of Waterloo reached a critical bottleneck. Severe water capacity constraints within the Mannheim Service Area, which encompasses Kitchener, Waterloo and parts of Cambridge, forced a temporary halt on all new development approvals.

Although existing water supplies are safe, the water supply system lacks the necessary buffers for repairs, prompting the need for emergency plans regarding new infrastructure and enhanced water supplies.

While the Region of Waterloo struggles with population growth and land development, Peter Huck, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, notes that the Mannheim district relies on a complex Integrated Urban System.

“The Region of Waterloo is using two types of water,” Huck said. “One is groundwater from about 100 scattered wells, and the other is surface water from the Grand River treated at the Mannheim Treatment Plant.”

The Mannheim Plant began it’s operations in 1994.

This creates a technical bottleneck where the wells are at their full capacity and increasing river draw is limited by the need to protect downstream ecosystems.

The Region initially identified the issue in November 2025 and announced the findings in December 2025, citing that rapid population growth and aging infrastructure led to demand exceeding available capacity.

The issue has been further discussed and detailed in a Jan. 13, 2026, meeting of the Region of Waterloo’s Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Development committee, where staff confirmed the need for a revised water supply strategy and infrastructure investment.

During the Jan.13 committee meeting, Sam Nabi, Director of Hold the Line WR, challenged the Region’s ‘surprise’ at the crisis, noting that the 2015 Master Plan had already identified the infrastructure and pumping stations necessary to bolster the Integrated Urban System.

Nabi questioned why these long-planned interconnections failed to prevent the current bottleneck and challenged the lack of groundwater context in regional planning. He argued against Provincial oversight, calling instead for a collaborative solution led by the local municipalities directly affected by the freeze.

Huck said that the current 60 per cent operating capacity may be due to equipment that requires more upgrading or replacing it to restore it to its full design potential.

While Nabi focused on historical planning, Joseph Puopolo, co-CEO of Polocorp Inc., laid out a stark economic forecast for the Region. Puopolo warned that halting development approvals would trigger a “dry-up of municipal development charges, rendering capital budgets irrelevant and driving skilled trades and private investment out of the Region toward more stable municipalities.

Additionally, he said that investments will be directed elsewhere, citing a further erosion of public trust and inevitable tax hikes if the construction industry remains stalled.

To prevent what he claims is an economic exodus, Puopolo presented a detailed action plan to the committee, urging Council to decouple planning approvals from water allocation immediately.

The proposed strategy includes a 30-day sprint to define a capital plan for the immediate refurbishment of the Mannheim system, bridge the gap by initiating a link between the Middleton and Mannheim water systems, and audit high-capacity users by meeting with the Region’s 50 largest water consumers to incentivize rapid reduction in usage before the August peak.

However, the solution for the water capacity issue isn’t as simple as building more pipes and infrastructure. Alex Latta, associate professor in the Department of Global Studies and the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, said that while ceasing development entirely is not the answer, the Region must re-evaluate its population targets.

“We need to re-evaluate the scope of population growth that we have said we can accommodate in our region’s Official Plan,” they said. Huck also highlighted the “social” side of the capacity equation: conservation. While the Region has implemented odd-even lawn watering and low-flush toilet incentives, Huck said that further measures might begin impacting residents’ daily lives, raising the question of whether residents would support the further restrictions necessary to measurably increase the buffer between supply and demand.

While a Great Lakes pipeline is often discussed as a solution for capacity issues, both Latta and Huck remain cautious. Latta said it would be a “last resort” due to extreme costs, urging the Region instead to adopt aggressive conservation measures and stricter regulation of commercial water permits.

“One of Canadians’ deeply held myths is that we have boundless supplies of fresh water,” said Latta. “Starting to value and respect water is the first step to living in tune with the hydrological realities of our region.”

Sam Nabi is WLUSP’s Web Manager.

This article was cross published with The Cord.

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2026-02-02

Canadian quarterback Tre Ford signs with Hamilton Tiger-Cats: sources

Courtesy: CFL The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian quarterback Tre Ford, per sources. It’s a two-year contract through…
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2025-11-26

Lecture: Poetry, Pain, and the Promise of Palestine, UofW, 7-9pm on Wednesday 26 November 2025

What: Poetry, Pain, and the Promise of Palestine
When: 7:00pm-9:00pm on Wednesday 26 November 2025
Where: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo
Location: 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
Register Online: https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/poetry-pain-and-promise-palestine

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts is honoured to present guest speaker Dr. Sa’ed Atshan – scholar, Palestinian Quaker, and LGBTQ human rights advocate – on the role of poetry in capturing the realities of contemporary Palestinian life in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and beyond.

Please join us for this unique opportunity to explore how interdisciplinary scholarship can be applied to both understand and address a global crisis which has had such tragic human consequences.

About the speaker

Sa’ed Atshan

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. He has previously served as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He earned a PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies and MA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and BA from Swarthmore College. Atshan is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020), coauthor (with Katharina Galor) of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-editor (with Galor) of Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Details and proceedings

Registration is required for in-person and online attendance. For those attending in-person, proof of registration is required at the reception area.

Doors open: 6:30 p.m.
Lecture and moderated Q & A: 7:00 to 8:20 p.m.
Reception for the in-person audience: 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Paid visitor parking is available in Lot M across from Federation Hall. More parking information.

This lecture is made possible through the generosity of alumni and friends. UofW Faculty of Arts extends sincere appreciation to the donors who contributed to the Foundation for Palestinian Studies Fund.

Watch past recordings from the UofW Palestinian Lectures series on YouTube.

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Community Edition @[email protected]

2025-11-11

LOCAL AUTHOR REFLECTS ON FOURTH BOOK FOR CHILDREN

On June 24, Waterloo-based author, Jennifer Harris, released The Witching Hour, a new picture book about a family of witches. This is Harris’ fourth children’s book.

Harris said her inspiration for the book was twofold.

“Like many parents, I had a child who was not the best sleeper. We all have those moments of walking around feeling a bit like a zombie when you have one of those children. So that kind of stayed with me quite deeply,” Harris said.

What brought the story to life was when the line, ‘In the witching hour, the sun slides down’ came to Harris one morning.

“I started to think about a family of witches and what they would do if they had this kind of fussy child, what kind of magic would they use to calm a baby,” Harris said.

“Because of that initial line, [it became] this very rhythmic story that had a lulling quality to it, even as things became more and more out of control,” she said.

For Harris, this is often how her creative process begins.

“It feels very organic that once I have a line that I really love, that I think would resonate with a child, create a mystery, or be a good hook, then it kind of unspools logically that there’s a story that’s going to follow from that,” Harris said.

Harris always knew she wanted to write creatively; however, it took some time to find a genre that worked best.

“I had come across this reference to a woman who had stitched a quilt of the solar system in the nineteenth century, and the idea where she wanted to use it to educate people about science,” she said.

While Harris originally considered writing an academic paper about the woman, she quickly realized that a picture book would be a more effective way to capture the attention of a larger audience.

“As soon as I thought that it clicked in my head, and the first few lines came to me, and I knew that this was the right way to tell this story,” Harris said.

Outside of writing children’s books, Harris is an English Language and Literature professor at the University of Waterloo.

Harris began teaching nineteenth-century American literature and transitioned into children’s literature courses based on increasing student interest.

“People tend to think of children’s literature as simplistic, but, in fact, it’s an incredibly sophisticated medium. Picture books aren’t that different from poetry, and then they have to do this additional work of capturing the interest of a child,” Harris said.

Harris noted a key component of her courses is working with students to understand how the books they read as children shaped how they see the world.

“Writing and reading for children is so crucial. We know that the number of books in a child’s house will predict their academic outcome. We know that the number of hours children spend reading a week directly translates to academic outcomes,” Harris said.

“Looking at the content of those books and thinking what that means for the child in terms of how they understand their world is incredibly powerful,” she said.

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2025-11-09

UW AND GOOGLE PARTNER TO FURTHER RESEARCH ON AI

The University of Waterloo is partnering with Google to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on education in a new workshop.

Google has invested $1 million into the partnership, which will have a mandate to research and educate the public on how humans interact with AI.

The chair will be held by Edith Law, professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo and executive director of the Future of Work Institute.

“The partnership will enable a number of research and education initiatives at the intersection of technology design and pedagogical innovation, including hands-on learning labs for students to envision technologies for the future of work and learning through prototyping,” the University of Waterloo stated in a press release.

The partnership is one piece of a larger mandate from the Future of Work Institute, which is funded by a $450,000 grant from the University of Waterloo’s Global Futures Fund.

The research being conducted through the partnership has three main pillars.

The first is a set of research projects looking at AI-facilitated learning technologies.

“This is really just understanding and developing novel education tools and understanding how students might use it,” Law said.

“One of the research topics is learning by teaching. So instead of having AI be the information provider, we’re turning it on its head and having AI act as a less knowledgeable peer that can be taught by students, and the students learn by teaching such an agent.”

Another aspect of the partnership is to investigate new paradigms of learning and teaching through an eight-week program that began in early October.

Law said the labs allow technical and non-technical students across campus to work together to envision what learning tools could look like using AI-supported prototyping tools.

For example, students will use Gemini Canvas and Google AI studio, where they can create a whole app just by prompting AI.

The third main piece of the partnership is to understand how technology can co-evolve with learning environments and policy.

“This is something I think is needed for learning technology to actually work in real-world learning environments,” Law said.

Law noted that learning technology is complex to incorporate into learning environments. When AI and learning technology enter classrooms, Law said educators must consider the role of the technology, the role of instructors, and the role of peers and how the technology may evolve in these roles.

Additionally, policy can help guide students and educators to understand how learning technology can be used, how to assess the quality of the work produced, and more.

For Law, this research is coming at an important time.

“There’s no question that students have access [to AI],” Law said.

“I think that there’s definitely an evolution going on where students have access to these tools and then instructors are adapting the way they deliver their courses and do the evaluation. I’ve heard of lots of interesting ways in which instructors have done that,” she said.

In this way, Law is also thinking about the impact AI will have on career readiness.

“I think it is important for the next generation to have just a basic level of AI literacy,” Law said.

“Understanding ways of thinking about AI and understanding the context of use…Being able to operate in this kind of environment and understanding how to get around an AI-rich environment is something that all students should be trained to do,” she said.

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2025-04-26

🚫 The University of Waterloo has heroically "solved" the AI menace by withholding student contest results, proving once and for all that if you can't beat the robots, just hide the scoreboard. Meanwhile, nginx stands firm as the true gatekeeper of knowledge with its cryptic "403 Forbidden" wisdom. 🙈💻
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2025-04-26

University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use

https://thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating/

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2025-03-13

University of Waterloo Scholarships 2025 in Canada | Apply Now!

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2025-03-11

Film Screening: Bread and Roses, 5pm on Wed 12 March 2025 by Amnesty International UW

What: Film Screening: Bread and Roses
When: 5:00pm on Wednesday 12 March 2025
Where: United College Alumni Hall A
Location: 190 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario Map
Register: Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bread-and-roses-screening-tickets-1262702891339
Website: https://linktr.ee/AmnestyUW

To: Faculty and Friends of the Human Rights Program at United College,

Amnesty International’s UW Chapter cordially invites you to join us for the screening of the momentous and enraging documentary Bread and Roses. Directed by Sahra Mani and produced with Malala Yousafzai, as well as Jennifer Lawrence, the documentary follows three Afghan women post 2021 Taliban take-over as they begin to navigate life under the oppressive rule and fight for their autonomy.

What you need to know:

Snacks will be provided.

The Amnesty International UW Chapter aims to raise awareness and hands on support for both local Waterloo and international human rights issues. We ask our members what human rights issues they want our focus on, and for this term, our members chose women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is ranked last in the Women, Peace, and Security Index. Since the Taliban regained power in 2021, women and girls have faced an unprecedented loss of their rights and freedoms. Banning girls from post primary education, from working jobs or volunteer roles, from public life, and much more, the Taliban created the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis. Now, with the pulling of USAID contracts from an already reeling economy, the threat of survival looms over the lives Afghan women and their families.

Bread and Roses is a chant that finds its origins in the American women’s suffragette movement. It’s a call for bread, work, and education. The documentary, using guerilla techniques and phone cameras, shows the rise of the Taliban through the eyes of three female activists as they struggle to retain their basic rights. The film may be disturbing to some, as it covers the real and extreme risks of punishment and abduction.

We hope to see you there,

UW Amnesty International Chapter.

Reach out to us @aihumanrights on Instagram Or visit our link tree at https://linktr.ee/AmnestyUW.

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2024-12-09

ALL CARS ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Coming from the UK to participate in the Year Abroad program at University of Waterloo, I was struck by this unmistakable otherness of Canadian culture to my own.

While I’d expected a certain weirdness from the culture shock, I assumed with all of us living in the globalised West. These differences would be trivial and quaint: perhaps a nationwide lust for maple syrup or flannel-clad lumberjacks on every street corner.

But North America loves cars. It loves great four-lane, six-lane highways that stretch beyond the horizon and vast concrete jungles that own the cultural imagination. The 401 is a living, breathing animal, an all-consuming fixation for commuters and provincial officials alike. Living here now for over a year, I’ve begun to feel that this factors into how we occupy shared space. It alienates people from their community; from the inherent possibilities of good public transport, and ultimately, from themselves.

In the UK, cities are usually much older, and therefore more walkable than in North America.

Downtowns and main streets prioritize pedestrians over drivers the roads are often cordoned off with people free to walk unimpeded. From my experience, this makes cities feel denser, more texture not just transitionary places between different businesses.

Room to loiter, to exist in a public space without hurrying on, opens broader connection possibilities. Coming to Waterloo for the first time, I was struck by how strictly functional King St. felt, just a rigid street of central businesses and pavement solely used to get between them, with loud, busy roads like Bridgeport and Erb interrupting the flow.

While I’ve grown to appreciate the parks in the city for offering a sense of community and interconnection, it is not quite the same. Downtown Cambridge’s Galt is a more extreme example, with transport trucks ceaselessly roaring through the main street. This sensorial, overwhelming experience becomes commonplace, but if trucks were rerouted away from the centre of Galt, I feel that people would be much more comfortable breathing freely, lingering and connecting with each other.

In much the same way as people-first cities, public transport between cities enhances the possibilities for human interconnection. It also connects economies, allowing wider distribution of wealth between spaces for us poor car-less souls.

Coming over to Canada, I naively assumed that Greyhound buses of legend would proliferate. In the face of motor vehicles’ tyranny over the nation, there would always be easy access to coaches, the capacity to get between central cities and more obscure spots in the outer regions. I liked the iconography of Greyhound buses: they seemed to symbolise the raw opportunity for travel and new experience on offer in North America.

Hitchhiking might be dead, but at least you can travel coast to coast on a dinky little bus if you are so inclined.

This is no longer the case. Under the strain of pandemic lockdowns, on May 13, 2021, Greyhound Canada completely ceased operations, with the only remaining buses running cross-border to the US. I find this tragic—with their closing, the ability to affordably travel throughout Canada without relying solely on cars has vanished. While other companies like Flixbus offer travel between major cities, they do not offer the same opportunity to access more peripheral cities, the nooks and crannies of the nation. In my eyes, I see thousands of strands of connective tissue, the lines of travel possible through public transport extinguished. When travel becomes a private affair, only accessible through the confines of a private vehicle, the strands are wiped away and we all suffer.

To some extent, communal ridesharing manages to fill this void, with there being large Facebook groups of drivers devoted to ridesharing. I have had my share of harrowing carshares, travelling from Waterloo to Quebec City with three German students, at once a vivid bonding experience and bleak endurance test. Nonetheless, to me, the widespread prevalence of car-sharing appears less as an independent phenomenon than as a strained response to the absence of affordable intercity public transport.

The lack of consistent public transport between Southern Ontario cities is perplexing—I remain baffled that there are no direct trains between Kitchener and Toronto on the weekends. The infrastructure exists to make this happen given that they run regularly for commuters on weekdays, and the weekend buses are typically full of anxious students, so there is an evident demand. To me, the fact that this short route between two of Canada’s largest cities lacks a direct train route two days a week, suggesting a systematic prioritization of private travel and the interests of the auto industry over the shared value of public transport.

Though this might read like a rant, I promise I did not construct this entire article just to voice my frustration with this one local issue. These are just some scattered reflections on the impact of car-centric cities and public spaces that don’t engage the potential capacity for connection. Canada may be an immensely large country, especially compared to England, but consistent and affordable public transport to travel between major cities seems like a very achievable, even basic expectation. As the nation’s population continues to swell, and vast sums are continually pumped into the highways, prioritizing pedestrian-friendly cities and stronger public transport might offer a more connected vision of the future.

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