New U-Pass price creates controversy
Three sides disagree on costs and effectiveness of pass
DISAGREEMENTS WERE SPARKED between the City of Ottawa, students, and citizens when Charlie Taylor, mayoral candidate in the past municipal election...
Bye bye, Imbeau
GSAÉD’s finance commissioner resigns
AFTER NEARLY TWO years with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate Students’ Association (GSAÉD), Patrick Imbeau announced he will resign his post of the finance commiss...
Former Governor General appointed chancellor
Michaelle Jean wants to be a chancellor that’s there for students
ON NOV. 7, the University of Ottawa announced Michaelle Jean, former Governor General of Canada, would be the university’s new chancellor...
Consent is Sexy Week focuses on positive sex narratives
Let's talk about consent, baby
NOV. 14–18 MARKS the second annual Consent is Sexy Week hosted by the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) at the University of Ottawa. The campaign focuses primarily on...
Enjoy the skin you’re in
OPH aims to educate youth about tanning
ON NOV. 8, Ottawa Public Heath (OPH) launched the Enjoy the Skin You’re In social media campaign, in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society, Cancer Care Ont...
Ottawa sorority raises money to combat disease
Pieing lupus in the face
SIGMA PSI ALPHA (SPA), a sorority based in Ottawa, has set Nov. 27 as the date when students, friends, and community members can pie sisters in the face to raise money for the Lupus ...
Kofi Annan and Lloyd Axworthy at the U of O
ON NOV. 4, students piled into Desmarais to listen to a panel discussion on the Responsibility to Protect
(R2P), which included former United Nations (UN) secretary general Kofi Annan, former Canadian fo...
Ottawa on the Move
Mayor Jim Watson discusses the city’s 2012 budget
THE CITY OF Ottawa’s draft budget, released on Oct. 26, will take on necessary infrastructure improvements, said Ottawa mayor Jim Watson. The p...
Perfect vision
U of O launches strategic plan
ON OCT. 21, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock launched Vision 2020, a set of goals the U of O hopes to achieve within the next nine years. The four main areas of fo...
Students’ neighbourly acts to be rewarded
ASH and U of O create off-campus involvement awards
THIS SEPTEMBER, THE Good Neighbours Committee, initiated by the University of Ottawa, created awards for off-campus student residents to encourage thos...