Reading Time: 4 minutesPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $9 billion in financial support for post-secondary students and recent graduates on Wednesday after thousands across the country said gaps in existing COVID-19 emergency measures meant they were slipping through the cracks.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Heart Institute is among the 19 hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes across the city that are reporting outbreaks of COVID-19, according to Ottawa Public Health. As of Monday, two patients at the heart institute had tested positive for the virus and one patient had died.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents taking classes at the U of O during the upcoming online spring/summer semesters will be met with a number of changes to fees and services due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The U-Pass is suspended for the term, while fees for Sports Services and the University Centre are waived.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCampus unions at the University of Ottawa are calling on the administration to waive tuition fees for the upcoming spring and summer semesters after the global COVID-19 pandemic closed many of the school’s services indefinitely and shifted both semesters online, while also posing major financial challenges for students.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has temporarily expanded the Canada Summer Jobs Program to employ up to 70,000 more people, but some post-secondary students say that the measure doesn’t go far enough and are continuing to call on the federal government to better support them through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThousands across the country are calling on the federal government to expand eligibility for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit after many post-secondary students and recent graduates said the COVID-19 pandemic relief fund leaves them behind.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe faculties of medicine, health sciences, engineering, and science at the University of Ottawa have shipped 252 boxes of donated supplies to local hospitals to help them treat COVID-19 patients. Over 110 small businesses and 70 organizations also pitched in.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Ottawa man is facing a voyeurism charge after he allegedly climbed a balcony and looked into the window of a Sandy Hill apartment near the University of Ottawa on Thursday morning.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Ottawa and former players on the Gee-Gees men’s hockey team have settled a class-action lawsuit, the administration announced Monday evening. The settlement was approved by the Ontario Superior Court on Friday.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround 65 people will move into the building on King Edward Avenue on Monday after a request was made by the City of Ottawa. The building was not in use when the city made its request, according to the university.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBabacar Faye will be the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s first president, according to the results of the union’s general elections released on Friday night. Eight students were also elected to the union’s Board of Directors, and the referendum to increase funding for the Office of the Ombudsperson failed to pass.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMany tenants say they cannot afford to pay April’s rent due to lay-offs and other financial challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why the Herongate Tenant Coalition is organizing a rent strike for the month of April.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa announced on Thursday that in-person spring 2020 convocation ceremonies — which are scheduled to take place from June 7-10 — have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe COVID-19 pandemic has shut down all but eight buildings on University of Ottawa campuses. The University Centre, Colonel By Hall, 100 Marie-Curie, SITE, the STEM Complex, Roger Guindon Hall, Vanier Hall, and the Social Sciences Building remain open as of Thursday.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 2019 Ontario Sunshine List was released earlier this month, which revealed that of the 5,750 staff members employed at the University of Ottawa, nearly 1,600 of them had made more than $100,000 last year.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing similar measures from the U of O’s faculties of engineering, social sciences, and arts, the Telfer School of Management will allow both undergraduate and graduate students to choose between a satisfactory/not satisfactory mark or a typical alphanumeric grade for winter semester courses.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa announced on Tuesday that 2020 spring and summer courses will still be offered, but will be carried out online via distance learning, due to the spread of COVID-19. They also revealed that a special emergency fund has been developed that students can access for financial support due to the pandemic.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the faculties of social sciences and engineering at the University of Ottawa both implemented similar measures, the faculty of arts will give undergraduate students the choice, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe faculty of engineering at the University of Ottawa will give students the choice, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade, the vice-dean (governance) announced in an email to students on Monday afternoon.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to growing concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Ottawa’s office of the vice-president, research (OVPR) has asked that all non-essential critical research or non-time sensitive research begin scaling down their activities by Friday.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa faculty of social sciences will give undergraduate students the choice, after receiving their final mark for a course, of opting for a ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ final grade rather than a typical alphanumeric grade, the dean announced in an email to students on Monday morning.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’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 francophone affairs commissioner candidate Marissa St. Amand thinks she deserves your vote.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’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 francophone affairs commissioner candidate Daphnée Veilleux Michaud thinks she deserves your vote.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’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 operations commissioner candidate Nour el Huda thinks she deserves your vote.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe’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.
