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WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY RALLIES FOR WILLOW RIVER CENTRE
Downtown Kitchener’s Willow River Centre (WRC), an Indigiqueer led community center, and the brick-and-mortar base for Land Back Camp, was recently in imminent danger of closing. After receiving less […]
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SANCTUARY
The summer Rupert turned 15, his parents decided to sell their house on Finkle street. Rupert had been born on Finkle Street, and up to that point, never been forced […]
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RIBFEST RETURNS TO THE REGION
Friday, July 18 marked the beginning of Kitchener-Waterloo’s Ribfest and Craft Beer Show by Nedlaw Roofs (henceforth known as ‘Ribfest’). The event was hosted in Willow River Park and spanned […]
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GRAND RIVER ROCKS HOSTS BOULDERING NIGHT
Thursday, July 17, 2025, marked this year’s second Boulder Night at Grand River Rocks Waterloo. There were 144 climbers competing across male, female and non-binary categories to climb the 15 […]
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KITCHENER WATERLOO SYMPHONY LAUNCHES 2025-2026 SEASON
September 2025 will mark the beginning of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s (KWS) 2025-26 season. Excitement in the region’s classical music scene is high and hopeful. “The 2025-26 season marks the next […]
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FIFTH ANNUAL CHERRY FESTIVAL AT CHERRY PARK
July 5, 2025 welcomed the fifteenth annual Cherry Festival at Cherry Park in Kitchener. Despite a high of 30°C and next to no cloud cover, over 1,400 people from Waterloo […]
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PIEROT AND THE BEAST OF GÉVAUDAN
Every night, after the king of Gévaudan began to snore, Pierrot would slip from his master’s chambers, cross the flagstones of the great hall, pass the smouldering hearth and the […]
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RAT TAIL SUMMER
This story is dedicated to my friend and döppelganger, Max. We were conceived as you all sat under the porchlight in fateful April. Someone said: “Guys. This year, it’s gonna […]
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BABA YAGA
On the night of my tenth birthday, I searched for my brother, Branko. Everything happened so fast. That morning, Mama and Papa were giving me my birthday present: an abacus. […]
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THE MAGICIAN
You learn lots about romance while dating a magician. I met mine at my friend’s kid’s fifth birthday party. “You come to these things often?,” he asked, packing his vanishing chamber into his […]
