The Fulcrum got an exclusive interview with the admin of perhaps the most infamous Facebook page in the U of O community: Beloved SFUO Overlords.
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The SFUO may well be the first post-secondary student union in the country to have their university terminate their contract.
Students are still in limbo over the future of SFUO services and businesses, along with clubs and federated bodies.
As the SFUO inches closer to termination date, the UOSU is eager to takes its place.
How the NAFTA became the USMCA.
The Fulcrum teamed up with the Ubyssey, the Gauntlet and the Charlatan to investigate how Canadian universities are dealing with the legalization of cannabis on campus.
As Doug Ford’s deadline approaches for post-secondary institutions across the province to implement free speech policies, students and faculty share their thoughts and feelings.
Is the service industry exacerbating or even causing mental health issues in its employees?
We spoke with a U of O student who works at the Rideau McDonald’s to get an insider’s perspective on life inside what is perhaps the most infamous McDonald’s franchise in Canada.
Cooking in a residence room can mean so much more than a soggy toaster strudel, or a lukewarm bowl of ramen noodles.
The unofficial guide to the most peculiar but tastiest high snacks to cure even the strongest case of the munchies.
On Sept. 21 I spent a night on Rideau Street with the high aim of unpacking an important cultural phenomenon—the Rideau McDonald’s.
On Sept. 30, around 400 people from the Heron Gate community will be evicted from their homes as part of a plan to redevelop the neighbourhood. This time, they aren’t backing down.
Halfway into the month of September, the capital region has seen a massive spike in the number of black bear sightings. The Fulcrum looked into the causes behind the jump in these sightings and the broader factors bringing wild animals to the city.
The Catholic Church made headlines at the end of August when a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report stating that more than 1,000 children had been abused by hundreds of priests in the state over the past 70 years. The exact total is estimated to be thousands more.
Scandal and criticism are not new to the SFUO. For those of you who have just arrived at the U of O, let’s take a trip down memory lane.
Student renters especially vulnerable to being taken advantage of by landlords and vice-versa, experts say.
Your questions on mental health, answered.
With a combined experience of over 25 years spent traversing through the post-secondary world, these are our essential tips, tricks, life hacks, and pieces of advice for not only surviving your university years, but thriving in them as well.
Our generation has spearheaded a massive period of retromania: vinyl, Polaroid cameras, vintage filters, and retro fashion are the centrepieces of our aesthetic sensibility. Why this hiding from the present? Why this nostalgia for a past we ourselves never experienced?
Looking for things to do in Ottawa this summer? We have you covered.
Paris is still a breaktaking, richly historical destination, and you should still go. But when you’re in the Louvre, don’t just look at the Mona Lisa.
An island that more closely resembles the peak of a mountain than the standard Caribbean island, it is 13 square kilometers of the most difficult terrain ever settled in the world.
It was the stagnancy, the lack of urgent work to do in addition to the lack of people around me to distract me from the lack of work to do. I was like an ant plucked from its well-oiled colony, placed in a virtually utopian habitat. And it completely and utterly stressed me out.
The narcissistic paranoia of being antagonized by a radical faction quickly melts away when you realize your value as a hostage is roughly the price of two kebabs and a box of cigarettes.
