Kitchener

Why does Trudeau keep sucking up to foreign tech companies?

Despite the PM’s love for Silicon Valley, relying on foreign tech firms for jobs risks turning Canada into a branch-plant economy

Bandith ‘Barry’ Ek

He survived childhood health scares and the Cambodian genocide. In Canada, he found his voice and a sense of freedom.

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The road to Ottawa goes through Southwestern Ontario

Ahead of the fall sitting, the NDP leader goes to Windsor.

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How many ridings?

Various allegations of phone mischief were made during the last federal campaign and various ridings have been cited this week in connection to the fraudulent calls being investigated by Elections Canada. Because the allegations vary—rude calls, late night calls, calls about polling stations, etc—it’s probably worth clarifying how many ridings may have been impacted by calls meant to misdirect voters to fake or incorrect polling stations.

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Crank yankers

The Kitchener-Waterloo Record traces mischievous calls made during the election to the Conservative party.

Kitchener meets its Waterloo

Kitchener meets its Waterloo

Canada’s old ‘German capital’ is once again learning the art—and politics—of reinvention

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All or nothing

Susan Delacourt notes an interesting question posed at an all-candidates debate in Kitchener.

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Creation story

Stephen Harper, addressing a rally in Kitchener last Friday.

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They are conspiring as we speak

More from the Prime Minister’s swing through southwestern Ontario.

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Train within nowhere

Peter Shawn Taylor has found a transit project so questionable I actually think even I wouldn’t support it: a light rail transit system in the Waterloo, Ont. downtown core.