We’re interviewing candidates for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s upcoming general elections that will be held from March 25-27. Here’s why student services commissioner candidate Amina El Himri thinks she deserves your vote.
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We’re interviewing candidates for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s upcoming general elections that will be held from March 25-27. Here’s why advocacy commissioner candidate Tim Gulliver thinks he deserves your vote.
We’re interviewing candidates for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s upcoming general elections that will be held from March 25-27. Here’s why presidential candidate Jason Seguya thinks he deserves your vote.
We’re interviewing candidates for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s upcoming general elections that will be held from March 25-27. Here’s why presidential candidate Babacar Faye thinks he deserves your vote.
A candidate looking to become the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s next advocacy commissioner and the sole student life commissioner candidate have both been disqualified from the general elections. Both candidates deny the allegations in the CEO’s ruling and are appealing the decision.
As concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic continue to grow and final exams approach, the University of Ottawa has launched a self-declaration form for students to request academic accommodations.
The executive committee of the University of Ottawa’s faculty of engineering is recommending students be given the option, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade, pending approval from the faculty council.
Hundreds are petitioning the University of Ottawa’s administration to give students the option of having their courses adopt a pass or fail grading system this semester after classes and labs moved online on Wednesday due to growing concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.
The faculty of arts at the University of Ottawa is closing buildings to students by this Monday due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with some already locked earlier this week. If necessary, staff and professors will be able to continue to access some of the buildings.
The University of Ottawa is pushing back the deadline for students to drop a course without impacting their transcript (but with no financial reimbursement) by two weeks amid campus closures and the transition to an online semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With only three days left until the Sunday deadline move out, University of Ottawa students living in residence have expressed concerns that the school’s measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has only added more strain to an already stressful situation.
With the remainder of the semester to be completed online as of Wednesday, University of Ottawa president Jacques Frémont is urging all students to practice social distancing to help prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading throughout the community.
After previously only encouraging students to do so, the University of Ottawa says everyone living in residence except for international students and those with “exceptional circumstances” needs to move out by this Sunday at 4 p.m. due to mounting concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the University of Ottawa prepares to move the semester online on Wednesday due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration hosted an information session for international students on Monday to answer questions during the period of uncertainty.
In an update to the University of Ottawa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday evening, the administration suspended clinical placements for medical and nursing students, effective immediately, and said counselling services will shift online starting Tuesday.
As a response to the growing concerns of the spread of COVID-19 in Ottawa, the University of Ottawa announced on Monday that all of their library locations would be closed for the day, while most food services on campus will close indefinitely.
The annual Ottawa Women’s March swept through the streets of downtown Ottawa on March 7. Check out some of our favourite photos from the march.
The candidates for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s general elections have been announced. Over half of the available seats on the Board of Directors will be vacant following the voting period from March 25-27, as well as the executive role of equity commissioner.
As concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in the city continue to grow, the University of Ottawa is offering refunds and urging students in residence to move home early to reduce the strain on campus resources.
Starting Monday, the University of Ottawa Health Services is shifting all family medicine appointments to telephone calls for the next week or so amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in the city.
A University of Ottawa student was found dead in one of the school’s on-campus residences on Saturday. The death is not linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a public forum promoting inclusion and anti-racism on campus on Thursday, University of Ottawa president Jacques Frémont called the June 2019 carding incident of Jamal Koulmiye-Boyce, a Black U of O student, “a good crisis,” drawing backlash from the school community.
“If you are free, your job is to free someone else,” CBC anchor Adrian Harewood told the crowd on Wednesday.
After the school’s administration announced its decision to cancel classes this Monday and Tuesday and shift the semester online on Wednesday due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union is following suit and will shift its upcoming general elections completely online.
The U of O has cancelled classes and labs on Monday and Tuesday and will move the remainder of the semester to online or distance learning on Wednesday due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The campus remains open and there are still no confirmed cases of the virus in the U of O community
