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My husband and I recently undertook the unenviable task of decluttering our storage room, an area of the house I normally treat as a no-man’s land since it’s cold, has spiders and is littered with junk.

After teaching courses in French literature and culture for almost twenty years – first at the University of Alberta and then at Waterloo – Dr. Christine McWebb changed academic gears: she became the founding Director of Academic Programs at Waterloo’s Stratford Campus.

Local landlords, realtors, renters and students got a better picture of the off-campus housing situation after an information session in Stratford Monday night.

Stratford is preparing for a hardcore hack attack.

The Stratford Accelerator Centre is relocating from its Wellington Street headquarters into the University of Waterloo Stratford campus this spring in an effort to foster greater collaboration between students and entrepreneurs.

STRATFORD — University students working on cutting-edge digital technology will have direct access to mentors and entrepreneurial advice when the Stratford Accelerator Centre moves onto the University of Waterloo's Stratford campus next month.

Local businesses need bright young minds. Bright young minds need business exposure and experience.

It’s a match made in Stratford.

The federal government has earmarked $3 million for a new public-private partnership aimed at mining the wealth of “open data” that exists in Canada.

And students at the University of Waterloo Stratford campus will be working to turn the raw materials into entrepreneurial gold.

KITCHENER — When Rahim Khalifa heard about the Communitech DATA.BASE Challenge last week, the graduate student immediately started putting together a team.

The 32-year-old is doing a master's degree in digital experience innovation at the University of Waterloo's Stratford campus, and he quickly joined up with a friend — Rick Sen — who is also in the program.