Reading Time: 9 minutesThe complex dynamics of the Canada-U.S. bilateral relationship In 1969, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau described the relationship between Canada and the United States in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it …
Reading Time: 4 minutesCanada is a country rich in demographics — and a diverse age-range of voters is just one example of that. However, some age groups seem to be less represented in the democratic process than others — namely, the voting-age youth.
Reading Time: 9 minutes “In the early nineties, we worried about kids passing notes, that was a distraction in class. We were taught how you intercept notes and the protocol on note-passing. We’ve just way surpassed that,” one local high school teacher says.
Reading Time: 10 minutesArt is being used as a therapeutic tool more and more often — but artists are faced with a higher probability of mental illness than the general population.
Reading Time: 11 minutesIs party discipline a necessarily Canadian political institution or is suffocating the democratic process?
Reading Time: 7 minutesHigh school students are using theatre to keep the stories of abuse and perseverance at Bell High School alive at Ottawa’s Fringe Festival.
Reading Time: 6 minutesLeslie Weir, the University of Ottawa’s former university librarian, has been appointed as the next librarian archivist of Canada
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe incidence rate for shingles has been increasing among many age groups, but experts aren’t exactly sure why.
Reading Time: 18 minutes“School’s great, but getting involved with the Fulcrum is so much better.” — Katherine DeClerq, Fulcrum alum.
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom the waging of war to the negotiation of peace and the formation of institutions to maintain it, the Fulcrum has witnessed and documented it all since its establishment in 1942.
Reading Time: 8 minutesBased on numerous trips to the U of O’s archives and interviews with alumni, this is the unofficial history of the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 10 minutes“It’s been a technological crisis for the last decade or so, and an advertising crisis, and now it’s sort of an existential crisis. If these things don’t exist – if the reporters and the institutions disappear from towns, campuses, cities, provinces – all of a sudden it’s just news darkness.” — Brett Popplewell, journalism professor at Carleton University.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“It’s a scary world … I’m just thankful to not have been a teenager in the world of the iPhone.” — Lynne McInally, clinical social worker, therapist and instructor at Humber College.
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen it comes to chronic pain, mental and physical illness are often inextricably linked.
Reading Time: 9 minutes“For some people it’s almost a joke, like ‘yeah yeah yeah I had my ADHD day yesterday … when we know … it’s so different to have it 24/7.”
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor some regular cannabis consumers, the immediacy of relaxation that cannabis brings on has been enough of a reason to consider it as a day-to-day treatment for anxiety and stress.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“It’s a responsibility I think as healthcare providers to be able to understand and to be more sensitized to the different backgrounds your patients are coming from. I’m sitting here in your office, you’re my therapist, it’s not my job to be like ‘Well no, this is how immigrant parents think.’ You need to step up and educate yourself.”
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe Fulcrum spoke to three students with different perspectives on youth political involvement to explore their insights and opinions into mental health. It became a brief but telling exploration of the challenges, supports, and lessons of staying healthy in the halls of power.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen the only thing we can do is hate ourselves, you remind us of all the reasons to do the opposite. When we can’t love ourselves, you do.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“These are the things I hold close when I remember that while growing up I contended with some things that no ten-year-old should.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Not everyone has access to bricks-and-mortar museums … The opportunity to view art online offers increased accessibility to visual culture.”
Reading Time: 6 minutes“It’s such easy money, like the easiest money ever … I was just rolling in money.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“You feel like a completely different person when you’re on it.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“For some of us, we also experience the confusion of sexuality from a young age, and figuring out where you land on the sexuality spectrum can be the most difficult experience of all.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes“If we do stay the night, we leave before the sun comes up to avoid the awkward intimacy of the morning after in favour of an uncomfortable Uber ride or the occasional walk home.”
