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Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite COVID-19, the Rideau Canal Skateway will be open this year, offering the skaters the chance to partake in winter exercise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U of O’s seventh annual wellness week concluded on Jan. 22 and featured workshops and activities for students, staff and faculty at the university, as well as several contests.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe U of O administration did not directly communicate to students that the release date for final marks had been moved back from Jan. 19 to Feb. 1.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOntario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams said on Jan. 16 that people who have received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will now have to wait between 21 and 42 days for their second dose.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThree individuals living in the Seager Wheeler Residence Hall at the University of Saskatchewan tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, reported the Sheaf.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have asked the provincial government to open up university and college campuses in order to improve students’ mental health and academic performance.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Equifax guaranteed that “Francophone students [will] be served in French.” Equifax was heavily criticized for lacklustre french services when it was hired by Desjardins to protect its members following its massive 2019 information breach.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNickolas Eburne, director for the faculty of civil law proposed the implementation of the new committee.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa changed their rules on residence contracts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students were slated to move in during the winter term, however many students decided not to move in at all.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of British Columbia (UBC) president and vice-chancellor, Santa Ono, as well as the director of the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), Peter Berman have come under fire for travelling out of the country in recent weeks.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Dec. 9, the University of New Brunswick announced its move to become a smoke free campus for September 2022.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOntario universities have started their winter 2021 semesters under a province-wide stay at home order. But while this is not the first semester impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown measures are complicating an already difficult situation for students.
Reading Time: 8 minutesRecommendations include singing Okanagan Charter, creating physical mental health and wellness centre on campus and creating a research cluster.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We take our responsibility to protect our members’ personal information seriously, and we sincerely regret that this incident occurred,” wrote the University of Ottawa Students’ Union in an incident notice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA total number of 111 students were listed on the document along with their personal student numbers and emails.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union deems the decision as “a huge win for student advocacy.”
Reading Time: 7 minutes“While the university does not care about our safety, we cannot risk the safety of those here,” said Jamal Koulmiye-Boyce.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe sit-in to demand a meeting with president Jacques Frémont has now lasted over 65 hours inside of Tabaret Hall as of the publication of this article.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Right Wing Politics Club at the University of Ottawa lost their club status with Campus Vibez (CVUO) as of Dec. 6 after attempting to book Tyler L. Russell for an event.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne day after posters appeared on campus, the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), along with 34 undersign university affiliated organizations, released a statement reaffirming their commitment to racial equity and inclusion.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCOVID-19 has created a time of global uncertainty that has affected access to reproductive rights and to services in Ottawa; making it more difficult to access abortion services.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Nov. 12, a clear majority of those in attendance for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union Fall General Assembly voted to give the Indigenous Law Student’s Association the right to become a recognized student government.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa announced on Thursday evening that it had appointed professor Boulou Ebanda de B’béri as the university’s first special advisor on anti-racism and inclusion.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The university is aware of the petition and is looking into the matter,” says U of O manager of media relations, Isabelle Mailloux-Pulkinghorn.
