Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’re single and ready to mingle or are looking for new networking opportunities, there’s something for everyone on the University of Ottawa campus this week!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes“Patients have to worry about how to follow up on the care they were given, assuming they find someone to see them in the first place.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesCanada’s broader diplomatic engagement with China, including recent visits by Prime Minister Mark Carney, has reinforced the importance of academic collaboration in the “new world order”
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Activism on this campus is the strongest it’s ever been… this world runs on money… and students should have the right to choose where the money goes and where it doesn’t go,” Stratas told the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReceiving your vaccines is an important tool to protect yourself against the nasty, but predictable illnesses of the winter season to ensure that you’re in good health to thrive in your day-to-day.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I really don’t see a reason for antisemitism to be so back and to be so normal, to the point where the university needs to have a special individual appointed to combat antisemitism,” a student told the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Terms like “diverse learning needs” and “decolonizing teaching” remain broad in the guide. Without specificity, the risk is performative policy rather than material change.
Reading Time: 7 minutesWith speakers called out for unparliamentary language, an unexpected debate around an Indigenous student’s identity, a 12-minute speech, and a 2-hour delay, the 9-hour Fall GA was certainly eventful.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We invite anyone that wishes to put matters before the Board and the membership at general assemblies to work with us in good faith so that we can ensure all voices are heard,” per UOSU president Jack Coen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs Canada looks to expand global research networks, the Franco-Canadian campus may become a model for future cross-border higher-education partnerships.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVilleneuve, a senior manager at Regionex, told the Fulcrum that it would be considered “normal for a place [like the university] to have a case of bed bugs every month” — with the University of Ottawa confirming three infestations occurred in September.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“They are suppressing the truth, and they are aiding and abetting the continuation of the violations of international law.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year, the union ended with a $15 million cash balance and $276,000 deficit. The audit revealed discrepancies in financial management that led to the deficits, including overspending on 101 Week in 2024 and unrecognized restricted levies.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This year, students should expect a long day with a packed agenda.”
Reading Time: < 1 minute“The potential losses of these funding streams may seem like a small administrative change, but is in fact a direct attack on services students rely on every day,” per UOSU president Jack Coen.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Students reported being asked to donate in incredibly high values, with the lowest dollar amount a student could select was 50 dollars”
Reading Time: 4 minutesGiven the severity of crises affecting marginalized groups across the city, students are disheartened by the city’s priorities
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Over 30% of recent STEM graduates in Canada are international students, actively contributing to research, innovation, and addressing labour shortages in critical sectors such as technology, healthcare, and engineering.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe coming years will test whether these investments truly reach young Canadians — and whether the co-ops, grants, and housing they depend on remain within reach.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“If we use sluts as a derogatory term, then it is. If we celebrate being sluts, if we celebrate being slutty, then it’s not a derogatory term, it’s our term”
Reading Time: 2 minutes “If someone needs a walk to be safe to get home from campus safe, there isn’t enough money in the world for that.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“So what is the alternative then, if the law doesn’t work for us, if the politicians, the investors, are not working in our interest?”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Students searching for fair, inexpensive housing should keep an eye on this policy.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is tone deaf to imply that increased defence spending is more important to students than more aggressive investment into affordable housing strategies. Moreover, the expectation that students should be united in celebrating this “generational investment” into defence feels out of touch with students’ reality.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“I’m a full-time student. I have my proof of enrollment. I have this line on my statement of account, and I’ve been [working] at UOSU for two years … for me, I am a member”
