Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 2014 municipal election ballot will list eight names—a much smaller ballot than in 2010, when 20 candidates were vying for the post of Mayor of Ottawa.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa remains one of the worst Canadian universities when it comes to the protection of free speech, according to a constitutional law organization’s annual rankings.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ottawa Police are looking for a 19-year-old University of Ottawa student who has been missing since Monday evening, 580 CFRA News Talk Radio has reported.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCandidates from Ward 12, Ottawa-Vanier debate issues for the area before the Oct. 27 elections.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCash-strapped Ontario universities are turning to the private sector for financial support, but at what price?
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past few weeks, students have been going around the campuses of George Brown College collecting signatures for the naming of the school’s first residence.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMuslims across the world will soon be celebrating Eid-al-dha, one of the major holidays of the Islamic calendar, but Muslim students at the University of Ottawa are frustrated by a lack of prayer rooms on campus.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSolutions to the ongoing dearth of student housing on and near the U of O campus will be at the forefront of the election as several candidates intend to pursue a housing strategy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA panel held at Carleton University to discuss safe space issues on campus was overshadowed by news of a legal threat issued by the Carleton Undergraduate Student Association (CUSA) and former CUSA president Alexander Golovko regarding an article published on Rabble.ca.
Reading Time: 3 minutesExecutive members of the SFUO showed up at the unveiling of the Advanced Research Complex (ARC) to demand the Ontario government to drop student tuition fees and further invest in post-secondary education.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Ottawa Board of Governors met Sept. 29 to discuss the financial results of the 2013–14 academic year, a proposal for a Woodstock campus, and a potential partnership between the U of O medical school and a Shanghai university. Our contributor Julia Riddle was on site to live-tweet.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA newly proposed piece of federal legislation that aims to protect unpaid interns from unfair work conditions is scheduled for debate this fall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Your Question Period program was designed to allow Canadian citizens, rather than just politicians, the opportunity to pose their questions to the Senate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThese days, the living wall in the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) building looks about as full of life as the library on Christmas Day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe brain is thought to have more than 100 trillion connections between neurons. A new conference at the University of Ottawa encourages people to take a closer look.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Tuition Grant has undergone its annual increase, and the province is looking to encourage more post-secondary students to apply.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTelfer professors have begun a new study to investigate the relationship between market sentiment and social media.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA report by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) suggests that universities are doing a very poor job of assessing the most basic skills of their graduates.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ottawa municipal election candidates met for a public debate on Sept. 23. Here is a live-tweet play-by-play of what was said.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCarleton students and faculty are hosting a panel in response to the “Fuck Safe Space” Today from 12 to 2 pm. The Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) and faculty members are hosting Building Safe(r) Spaces in the River Building Atrium at Carleton University.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStaff reporter Spencer Murdock was at the Sept. 21 BOA meeting where arts representative James Daniels resigned — here is his live-tweet of the meeting.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhil Chiasson encountered his first 3D printer while working at the University of Ottawa’s Bike Co-op. Not much later, his curiosity has led him to answer the environmental question of the modern machine.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) lost two court cases against the Rassemblement des associations étudiantes (RAE) and McGill PhD student Ge Sa on Sept. 5 and Sept. 9 respectively.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations (FNBFA) is likely to pursue court action against the University of New Brunswick, despite the university’s release of president Eddy Campbell’s 2009 and 2014 employment contracts.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the University of Ottawa have made an astounding discovery about your morning brew.
