Dear Ty: BFFs
Dear Ty, I’ve been best friends with this person for almost 10 years, but over the past few months, I’ve started to realize something … I’m fairly... Read more.
Inside the world of sugar dating
The U of O boasts one of the largest sugar baby populations of all post-secondaries in Canada It’s a familiar weekday night in Ottawa and Charlie is getting... Read more.
Can birth control affect your mental health?
Students call for more research on impacts of hormonal contraceptives During your time as a student, you might find yourself experimenting with different... Read more.
Figuring out how love and sex fit with your sexuality
A personal essay on how love and sex look as a bisexual person Love and relationships can be confusing, let’s face it. Whether you’ve only experienced... Read more.
“A Millenial’s Guide to Kissing” and how we find love
Cassidy Best explores the world of dating as a young person in 2019 “So, what are we?” “We’re just talking.” “Have you ever tried Tinder?”... Read more.
Your Ty Tuesday questions, answered
Ask Your Love and Sex Questions on Instagram Every Tuesday Since the start of the winter 2019 semester, the Fulcrum’s in-house love and sex columnist Ty... Read more.
Intertwined: Growing together through our differences
How Canada’s diversity is shaping the modern relationship In any new relationship, one of the biggest challenges a couple has to overcome is their own... Read more.
The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure
Experts say work still to be done on curbing prosecution Inside a building near the Rideau Canal in downtown Ottawa, a spacious room is filled with people... Read more.
Dear Ty: Mile High
Dear Ty, My partner and I are heading on a vacation to somewhere much warmer than Ottawa over reading week and I’m really excited, but the flight is going... Read more.
Meet Your 2019-20 Academic Year
What we know about Ford’s upcoming changes to OSAP, tuition rates, and incidental fees When Brittany Wilson started school at Carleton University in... Read more.
Dear Ty: Cold sores
Dear Ty, I think I got my first cold sore last week. It hurt a lot and it was really embarrassing walking around with scabs on my lips. Just when I thought... Read more.
Q&A: The Rideau Canal Skateway
Running through downtown Ottawa like a vein, the Rideau Canal (also known as the Rideau River) is both the literal and legitimate heart of the city. The... Read more.
Dear Ty: The Thing
Dear Ty, Over the past few days, I’ve noticed it’s hurt quite a bit to go pee. I thought I might just have a typical urinary tract infection (UTI), but... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Forgets to Scream
Cancer is cold like water far out to sea, so cold the sun’s kisses get lost like my feet inside the prints vanishing in the forest. My soul space... Read more.
Fiction Issue: A Winter Night
Though the wind shrieks ferociously in what is, even for January, a rather frigid winter night, he lays sprawled on his bed naked, his covers draped on the... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Dragonfly
She arrives at half-past midnight when his hand is still bleeding. Her hair is up in that half-bun that he likes so much. She’s pinned her bangs to the side... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Trash
A hundred coins clink down the rows of slot machines as I slide my card into the punch clock. At 19:02 I’m on the job and the fat lady at Number Four wins... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Visions in Vinyl
A very old man sits in a worn leather armchair in his favourite room in his house. The walls are lined with shelves of vinyl records. In the centre of the... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Cold Dreams
Held hard in the right hand, I walk through the woods but cannot find the Way. The net between the Beyond did not catch my step-brother that night in 2009 when... Read more.
Fiction Issue: The Way Down
The smell of halftime oranges, soccer days over 30 years gone at sunrise this morning. Sliced pink with age, membranes still thread sections, the afghan... Read more.
Fiction Issue: The Widow and the Child
I was walking the streets one cloudy autumn day The breeze was cool, and danced with delight When from a shadowy alcove I heard a voice say Spare some... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Imprints
When our eyes meet I can’t help it A smile forms, blushes stolen My heart beats faster Inexplicably As emotions overwhelm me But I’ve never been more... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Mac and Cheese DeMarco
smelly overalls stained fingers wrecked guitar picks messy hair my dear mac and cheese demarco actin like you don't really care oozing all over my... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Library Sanctuary
i feel safest within libraries where time freezes in the air and i can live out other lives without leaving my chair these pages hold souls and these shelves... Read more.
Fiction Issue: Hotline Bling, or Why I Called
if you pick up the phone i will tell you that to know a woman is a privilege, and not a right. i gave you the privilege of myself. in turn, you taught... Read more.