We’re interviewing candidates for the upcoming provincial byelection in the Ottawa-Vanier riding on Feb. 27. Here’s why NDP candidate Myriam Djilane thinks she deserves your vote.
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We’re interviewing candidates for the upcoming provincial byelection in the Ottawa-Vanier riding on Feb. 27. Here’s why Liberal Party candidate Lucille Collard thinks she deserves your vote.
We’re interviewing candidates for the upcoming provincial byelection in the Ottawa-Vanier riding on Feb. 27. Here’s why Progress Conservative candidate Patrick Mayangi thinks he deserves your vote.
Seasonal affective disorder is a form of depression that typically peaks in the winter months, impacting up to 15 per cent of Canadians during their lifetime. We spoke with Ottawa psychologist Dr. Marna Zinatelli on what the illness is and how it can be treated and managed.
President Jacques Frémont responded to thousands of petitioners demanding the school improve its mental health services after four student deaths last year, and also gave an update on the school’s anti-racism campaigns after two Black students were carded on campus last year.
The University of Ottawa announced on Friday that they will suspend all operations in China after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The president of the University of Ottawa said a Scientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that has been widely condemned and protested by students is “outrageous” and “hurtful to many members of the community,” but ruled the school will not be removing the display.
Dozens of University of Ottawa students spent hours on Wednesday protesting outside of the Scientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit that is being showcased all week in the University Centre, with many expressing their frustration with the school and its passive approach to the display.
City council voted unanimously on Wednesday to declare an affordable housing and homelessness emergency, making Ottawa the first Canadian city to do so. The motion was brought by Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney, who is council’s liaison for housing and homelessness.
The provincial government has called a byelection in Ottawa-Vanier, which includes Sandy Hill and the University of Ottawa, for Feb. 27.
Students are calling on the University of Ottawa to remove an anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that was set up just days after the university finished celebrating their annual wellness week.
The Ottawa housing market can be a tough realm to navigate. Read up on some tips and tricks from tenant rights advocates, student renters, landlords, and mortgage brokers so you can find the best new pad that checks all your boxes.
“We can learn biology isolated in a classroom, but at the end of the day when we go out into the real world, which is so scary, all disciplines are going to be together, and we’re gonna have to figure it out from there.”
The University of Ottawa Students’ Union voted to shift its executive structure at a Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, resurrecting the president position and adding a student services commissioner to its leadership team.
The provincial and federal governments announced on Wednesday that they reached an agreement to jointly fund a French-language university in Toronto, set to welcome students in 2021.
The University of Ottawa has launched a scholarship fund to honour the three students who died in a plane crash near Tehran, Iran earlier this month. The scholarship fund is established in collaboration with the Canadian Science Policy Centre and the U of O will match all donations to the fund up to a maximum total of $100,000.
Most of the Rideau Canal Skateway opened on Wednesday morning, with seven kilometres of ice now stretching from Hartwell Locks at Carleton University to Somerset Street on the edge of the University of Ottawa campus.
After a semester-long debate, the UOSU has come to a decision about the club status of the anti-abortion group University of Ottawa Students for Life.
After speeding through the U of O campus last March, Marc Andre Fournier was sentenced to 39 months in prison in December and is prohibited from operating a motor vehicle for more than seven years.
After two false alarms, Kevin Geenen examines the different safety measures that are in place at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University in the event of an active shooter on campus.
Hundreds of people attended a memorial ceremony on Friday for three U of O students who were killed in last week’s plane crash in Iran. Several colleagues, faculty members and friends of the victims spoke before the crowd and honoured the lives of the students.
The nation’s capital mourned the lives of 63 Canadians and several Ottawa residents who were killed in Wednesday’s plane crash by hosting a vigil at Parliament Hill on Thursday. Hundreds attended the event, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Of the 176 people killed in Wednesday’s crash near Tehran, Iran, three were students at the U of O.
A shooting in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning has left one person dead and three others with serious injuries. Police say that the scene has been secured and the incident is not considered an active shooter situation but the suspect is not in custody.
Despite the resources and accommodations offered by the university’s Student Academic Success Service, many students say that the U of O is still failing to accommodate their disabilities. From physical to learning disabilities, students are asking that the university show more consideration for their conditions.
