“It’s people’s power that moves the hands of government,” said executive director of the Canadian Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity.
Ottawa
A greater police presence is one of the measures which is being practiced in an effort to avoid a repeat of the criminal incidents of the Panda Game street party this past fall.
“It’ll be my first time living away from home on my own. But all of the exciting parts of that are taken away, because I’m worried about if I’ll find a place,” said second-year student Erin Peter.
Plans to pave local park to create parking spaces have been withdrawn.
The challenges and opportunities presented by the task of converting commercial spaces to residential ones.
If your fear of needles and injections has stopped you from getting vaccinated, this might be the event for you.
The Ottawa Heritage Building is lighting up red this week in honour of Dyslexia Awareness Month, bringing attention to the learning difficulty that impacts an estimated one in ten children in Canada.
Ottawa Centre MPP Joel Harden and nurse Rachel Muir speak about their experiences following provincial health mandate protests.
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Vaccination will be opened exclusively to Sandy Hill residents aged 12 and over.
Ottawa city council’s approved boundary change is being criticized for not taking all factors into consideration.
Despite COVID-19, the Rideau Canal Skateway will be open this year, offering the skaters the chance to partake in winter exercise.
“It was very emotional for me as I had never before heard so much appreciation for non-Indigenous presence,” said Polish retiree Feliks Welfeld.
CHEO and U of O have partnered with the City of Ottawa to work on a “shitty” research project dealing with local sewage.
Caroline Cox of the Shepherds of Good Hope knew in March when the pandemic hit, they would be in trouble, not just for the number of already-vulnerable persons they help but in losing their dedicated senior volunteers leaving for their health and safety. However, their downtown Ottawa location has had an unexpected uptick in the number of student volunteers.
“We don’t know much about the mental health of our workforce in this country. The more this crisis goes on, the more these issues will be compounded,” said Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, a U of O professor and holder of the University’s research chair in gender, diversity and the professions.
“Coming to university is a huge transition, said Initiative 1/5 president Kari-Ann Clow. “Mental Illness tends to often have its first episodes in young adults. They’re changing, they might be away from family, there is a new identity forming, so there’s a lot of pressure on top of the stigma associated.”
“There’s increased stress and anxiety among students because of the disruption and uncertainty caused by COVID-19,” said Rita Notarandrea, ceo of CCSA.
Echoing throughout the remnant stained glass of the former Sandy Hill All Saints Anglican Church on Sept. 17 was an emotional celebration of the first-ever diploma graduating class of the Inuit Community Support Worker and Management Trainee Program.
‘Renoviction’ and gentrification business strategies have raised concerns in a Sandy Hill mass eviction slated for the end of October. University of Ottawa law professors and their students are using their lab to help support tenants.
On the first official day back to school, Myriem Sahouli tweeted her concern and frustration to @uOttawa an @uOCampus that she has been trying to book an appointment with the University of Ottawa’s Health Services (UOHS) for weeks and all she receives is a busy signal.
A variety of activities, speeches and games helped the UOSU and the University of Ottawa student body fundraise close to $4,000 dollars to help raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. Shinerama month continues throughout September.
Saturday’s event featured 12 scientists giving hour-long synopses of their area of research and looked to spark interest in younger generations to pursue futures in science, technology, engineering, medicine and math.
“The people who are here are missing class to stand up for those who can’t come to class at all this semester,” said organizer and student Tim Gulliver.
“This is why I wanted to develop software, to help people achieve something. It sounds cliché, it sounds like the Silicon Valley ‘Make the world a better place,’ but that’s true, that’s exactly what I wanted to do, which is make tools that help people live and work better.”—Jerry Fengwei Zhang, fourth-year software engineering student and Developer 30 Under 30 winner.
