On Friday, Sept. 10,University of Ottawa Students’ Union (UOSU) president Tim Gulliver and business director Nadia Boutkhil told the Fulcrum about its new plans to reopen the long-awaited student-led business, Pivik.
On Friday, Sept. 10,University of Ottawa Students’ Union (UOSU) president Tim Gulliver and business director Nadia Boutkhil told the Fulcrum about its new plans to reopen the long-awaited student-led business, Pivik.
On Aug. 30, the ByWard family health clinic, formerly known as the Marie-Curie Clinic, announced significant changes to its services.
For the 2021 election cycle, the Fulcrum is interviewing the four major parties candidates in Ottawa-Vanier. Here is our interview with the NDP’s Lyse-Pascale Inamuco.
For the 2021 election cycle, the Fulcrum is interviewing the four major parties candidates in Ottawa-Vanier. Here is our interview with the Green Party’s Christian Proulx.
While a reopening date remains to be set, students can rest assured that Nostalgica’s closure is not permanent.
When I step into the voting booth to pick between the leaders I saw at the federal debate I will invoke some of the few words of the night that truly resonated with me. “Oh shoot,” by Marek McLeod.
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
For the 2021 election cycle, the Fulcrum is interviewing the four major parties candidates in Ottawa-Vanier. Here’s our interview with the Liberal Party’s Mona Fortier.
Many women are not aware of just how prevalent — and deadly — cardiovascular diseases are. According to Dr. Coutinho, heart disease and cardiovascular disease kill five times more women than breast cancer and twice as many women as all cancers combined globally each year.
As classes return to campus, Dalhousie University has limited its residence capacity to 80 per cent this fall, housing around 1,800 students instead of the 2,300 they did prior to the pandemic, according to a statement on the university’s website.
In February 2020, the Interfraternity Council (IFC) — the governing body of UBC’s frats — announced an indefinite suspension on all open social events following drugging allegations from multiple female students in 2019. Frats broke it.
Starting Sept. 22, Ontario will require proof of vaccination and a piece of ID to enter certain businesses and settings . The province plans on replacing the paper/PDF vaccination certificate with a unique individualized QR code and verification app.
COVID-19 safety measures have been implemented during the move-in process and in residences.
Elections Canada will not continue the Vote on Campus initiative for the 2021 federal election, leaving student advocates concerned about youth voter turnout.
The particular demands of the practical arts complicate the already-complex process of reinstating in-person learning at the U of O
Egerton Ryerson, the school’s namesake, was one of the architects of the residential school system.
Union plans to give a warm welcome to first and second-year students coming to the University of Ottawa campus for the first time.
Nour El Huda, the University of Ottawa’s Students’ Union’s (UOSU) former operations commissioner, detailed allegations of acts contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code as well as general poor corporate governance by UOSU’s 2020-21 Executive Committee in her letter of resignation back in November 2020.
Vaccination will be opened exclusively to Sandy Hill residents aged 12 and over.
“Laurier’s Inclusive Excellence hiring initiative is an example of how the university is taking deliberate steps to enhance Indigenization, equity, diversity and inclusion in our teaching, learning and research,” Anthony Vannelli, Laurier provost and vice-president: academic said in an email statement.
The University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors announced on Monday afternoon that it has cancelled plans to increase tuition by three per cent for out-of-province students. This follows a report on Sunday from the University of Ottawa Students’ Union (UOSU) that the hike, which was first announced in the BOG’s embargoed documents sent to media and members on Friday, had been scrapped.
Students in residence who cannot be vaccinated for medical or “other protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code” will be able to request accommodation from Western.
“Membership has been focused on faculty members since the issues to be looked at have direct impacts on the work being conducted by our professors and researchers,” wrote U of O manager of media relations, Isabelle Mailloux-Pulkinghorn in an email to the Fulcrum.
“They’ve known about the virtual format since we first registered for graduation months ago. There’s no reason they couldn’t have let us know sooner what was going on,” said Rachel Van Lanen, an imminent graduate of the U of O’s theatre program.
“We are still in the preliminary phases but clearly it raises many legal issues and legal challenges. It doesn’t look as if it is a dominant hypothesis right now, but the conversation is going on and the studies are being conducted,” said the U of O’s president.