The Backrooms first began as a viral YouTube horror series created by Parsons. Originally, however, the concept emerged in 2019 from an anonymous message board on 4chan. It featured a photograph of an ...

This June, Wilfrid Laurier University celebrated more than 4,013 graduating students during its spring convocation ceremonies in Waterloo and Brantford, marking the beginning of a new chapter for its ...

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.

My philosophy is that a president should be the one ensuring that a company fulfills its goals while creating the best environment for its stakeholders. WLUSP exists for the Laurier community, and if ...

Giiwedin is a riveting and beautiful tale that captured the audience this past weekend at Wilfrid Laurier University, even for those not already fans of opera. Giiwedin is told from the perspective of ...

Everyone has their guilty pleasures, shows or movies they like to watch to unwind. For me, and for many others, those shows are crime dramas and police procedural programs like ‘Criminal Minds’, or ...

During the election, undergraduate students were invited to vote for a peer to serve as Students’ Union president & CEO for the 2026–27 academic year. With a voter count of over 2646 students (10.68 ...

Wilfrid Laurier University is deeply saddened by the passing of Tatiana Maraidas, a varsity soccer athlete and a second-year student in the Faculty of Science. Her passing was confirmed on Monday, ...

Sept. 30 marks the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. This day serves as a reminder of the tragic history of residential schools and pays tribute to survivors and their families. In ...

With the Tamil New Year coming up on April 14, it is a perfect opportunity to talk about the history and origins of the Tamil film industry. The Tamil film industry, like other film industries in ...

In university there are often jokes about exhaustion. All-nighters are normalized; coffee is a personality trait, and students often say, “I will sleep when I am done,” and it feels like an unofficial ...

Change — the one word that comes to my mind when I think back to uptown Waterloo a decade ago. Ten years ago, uptown Waterloo was a local-oriented location. The core held a certain small-town charm.