Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter his parents lost their jobs, international student Ashwath Param was left on his own to pay his high tuition and rent fees. With little job experience, he struggled to make any sufficient income and for two months straight, the only meals he could afford were instant ramen noodles, which he could only eat once every other day.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the recent reversion to ‘Stage 2’ lockdowns, local Ottawa businesses are being left in the dust. Atop of decreased student presence and navigating virtual services, how are these businesses adjusting?
Reading Time: 5 minutesPride and gathering spaces play an important part in LGBTQ2+ history, but how have they evolved over the years into what we see today? This week the Fulcrum explores the past, present and future of LGBTQ2+ commons; what are they, what do they look like, and what will they look like?
Reading Time: 7 minutesOver the last thirty years, the Fulcrum has reviewed a number of albums that eventually became career-defining and altering records for artists. This feature is the first part of a series that will look back on Fulcrum reviews of albums that changed the music industry and helped define an entire era
Reading Time: 5 minutes“I think always being honest and always being open to whatever people have to tell me and being honest about synthesizing that information and bringing it forward. I don’t have a whip, I don’t have much power, but I do have people listening to me,” says Elizabeth Kristjansson, the University of Ottawa’s new advisor on mental health and wellness
Reading Time: 5 minutesBinge-watching is nearly irresistible when given a choice between a multitude of streaming platforms. But what are the environmental impacts of having a streaming party?
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There’s increased stress and anxiety among students because of the disruption and uncertainty caused by COVID-19,” said Rita Notarandrea, ceo of CCSA.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEchoing 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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn offshoot of the infamous Instagram partying brand Canadian Party Life has collected thousands of followers by featuring attractive post-secondary students.
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs students settle into the routine of online learning, students with disabilities observe the advantages and disadvantages of virtual classrooms.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIncoming students are eager to meet new people despite the current pandemic conditions, but how difficult is it really?
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs the academic accommodations granted during the winter 2020 term were based on the context of being a student during the COVID-19 pandemic, one can only wonder why the same exceptions are not being granted when the reality of the situation has not changed.
Reading Time: 7 minutesCountless universities across the country will be hosting their frosh weeks for incoming students this week, but most will look drastically different than they have in years prior.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith a new virtual semester approaching, students who took part in the summer semester share their experiences with the ups and downs of their U of O’s first predominantly online semester.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s death have made it clear change is inevitable. But that change needs to also benefit and include Black womxn.
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn a year riddled with crises, the attention of university administrations is understandably divided. But as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wracked the student population with isolation and grief, it’s now more important than ever that the university’s efforts to address the mental health crisis are not lost.
Reading Time: 6 minutesStudents say the university’s mental health resources are lacking all around, but incompetent care affects the safety and well-being of its LGBTQ2+ community a little differently.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
Reading Time: 16 minutesFive students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
Reading Time: 9 minutesWomen’s rights, sexual abuse, LGBTQ+ visibility, racism, chronic illness: the Fulcrum has not strayed away from contentious issues this decade. Read here the best that the decade has had to offer.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough they are fundamentally in conflict, experts believe climate policy and inclusion of Western interests in Canadian political discourse are not mutually exclusive.
Reading Time: 6 minutesSustainability has become one of the hottest topics in all spheres of life, and the corporate world is no different. Some companies are frontrunners in sustainable development, but dishonesty and deceit regarding green initiatives — greenwashing — is a common issue.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe may not have flying cars, but in the age of cult-hit film Blade Runner, experts are already considering the dilemmas of morality presented in Ridley Scott’s masterpiece.
Reading Time: 10 minutesFrom health to academics to social life, university students with chronic illnesses have to prioritize things a little differently. Take a look inside their lives and find out what the university is and isn’t doing to help.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“The idea that is being broadcast to millennials is that they can and should have it all — the only thing standing between them and unimaginable success is laziness.”
