Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowing your own organic vegetables is a labour of love, but it’s easier than you might think.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent graduate of the University of Ottawa has entered a travel contest where entrants describe their “bucket list” for a chance to win a six-month all-expenses-paid trip around the world to check off a good chunk of that list.
Reading Time: 2 minutesConcert review: Sigur Rós performs in Ottawa
Reading Time: 3 minutes101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper Yann Martel | Vintage Canada 4 / 5 YANN MARTEL, THE author of Life of Pi, released another book in 2012 that was a polar opposite of his previous novel. 101 Letters to a Prime Minister is a non-fiction work that features the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesMissing a pet back at home? The University of Ottawa’s Student Academic Success Service and Health Services have teamed up with a solution in the form of “pet therapy.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year, Canadians look to the groundhog to forecast the end of winter. At the University of Ottawa, students look to their own seasonal forecaster: the hot dog man.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Computer Science Student Association hosted a Windows 8 hackathon to get a behind-the-scenes look at new Microsoft products.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBill Nye the Science Guy delivered an exciting and motivational talk to nearly 5,000 admirers at the Convention Centre on March 14.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year’s VERSeFEST provided opportunity to showcase the work of the U of O’s Undergraduate English Students’ Association.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a world where 3 billion photos are available in a three-second Google search, Ottawa’s Dan Neutel is hoping that his latest photography project will stand out.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Phi pledge class of the U of O’s Omega Theta Alpha fraternity spent 24 hours outside on a bench March 14–15 to raise money for Roger’s House.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum movie critics review Admission and Oz the Great and Powerful.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fulcrum hosts its first set of book reviews this year at last!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa found its place in the vast archive of viral YouTube sensations as students joined in on the popular Harlem Shake on Parliament Hill.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fulcrum sat down with fourth-year bachelor of fine arts student Amanda Gaudreau to talk about her work at the opening of her photography exhibition at Café Alt
Reading Time: 3 minutesCampus Pride Week was an overwhelming success this year as it saw its best attendance yet and raised more than $2,700 for LGBTQ support services.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s student-run organization Unity for Action performed a play put on to raise awareness about bullying and help fund education in Kenya
Reading Time: 3 minutesHowever, if you want to have the summer of your dreams, there are things you should start thinking about now.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O hosted an evening of fun and fashion to increase awareness and raise money for lupus research and support.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Muslim Students Association held its annual Islam Awareness Week (IAW) this year from Feb. 25 to March 1.
Reading Time: 3 minutesU of O grad student Neeko Paluzzi presents his debut feature-length documentary about his long and emotional journey through Switzerland.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe camera’s on you! We’ve turned the lens on students to take a look at who’s wearing what on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Department of Theatre’s production of Princess Ivona tells the story of a group of courtiers who have their public personas brought into question through the presence of one girl who refuses to play along.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe PepTides Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe | Self-released 4 / 5 REVENGE OF THE Vinyl Cafe, from Ottawa’s own nine-piece outfit The PepTides, is an unusual album. What’s important to realize is that it isn’t really an album; it’s a soundtrack, written and recorded to coincide with each short story in Stuart McLean’s book …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’d been looking forward to it, sure, but I forgot all about it until I got a surprise call from the local game store to inform me that my pre-ordered copy had come in. This is something that should have been great news, but instead it felt like a call from a girl I’d gone out with and never called back.
