In response to the travel ban issued by the United States government against seven Muslim-majority countries, the University of Ottawa has announced that it will be taking measures to assist students affected by this executive order.
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The Feb. 5 Board of Administration (BOA) meeting saw motions pass that aimed to combat Islamophobia on campus and implement an Indigenous students’ seat on the board.
Following the Jan. 29 shooting of six Muslim men at a mosque in Québec City, staff, faculty members, and students at the University of Ottawa gathered in solidarity and to pay their respects.
The 2017 Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) general election has 10 candidates vying for the six positions at the highest level of student governance at the U of O.
On Jan. 26, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) held their third Board of Administration (BOA) meeting of the month, where Faculty of Social Sciences representative Tony Bui raised some “serious concerns” about the upcoming general election.
On Dec. 31, 2016, three University of Ottawa professors were appointed to the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada, his Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston.
According to Jean-Philippe Dubé, a fourth-year computer science student at the U of O, the shift to the new D2L platform was a collective decision made by the administration and members of the university Senate.
In this issue of “On the Hill” Raghad Khalil will take you behind the scenes in the lives of three U of O student political staffers, two current and one former.
The committee, which is comprised of students, faculty members, and other staff at the U of O, are working to identify what kinds of “barriers to inclusion” exist on campus.
The ID Project helps provide health cards, birth certificates, SIN cards, and photo ID cards, according to co-founder Emily Cumbaa, who notes that simple tasks such as depositing a cheque can be made difficult without proper identification.
A judge has ruled in favour of a challenge brought forward by the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO) in 2015 over a salary increase for two senior executives at the U of O.
Jasmine van Schouwen is a law student at the University of Ottawa who first applied to participate in the conference last year and will be representing the Kanata-Carleton riding.
A former Gee-Gees volunteer equipment manager is facing charges of sexual assault and further charges of human trafficking, according to the Ottawa Police Service.
The Jan. 15 meeting came only four days after a special meeting of the BOA, where a report by comptroller general Tanner Tallon raised issues about executives’ expenses and hours in the office.
Report highlights executives’ questionable credit card use, absence from office.
BOG vice-president resources Marc Joyal started his presentation by talking about how the U of O is facing an estimated $14.6-million deficit for the current fiscal year, a period that ends on April 30, 2017.
According to a memo sent to U of O staff from president Jacques Frémont, the university is facing a $15-million deficit this fiscal year and has been consulting with the heads of faculties and services to see how they can soften the blow.
Following question period, Caruso presented an emergency motion to the board which would have the SFUO officially oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and Enbridge’s Line 3.
The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine has recently implemented new meditation sessions as a way for students to relieve stress.
To gather the data necessary to complete this study, the team submitted an online questionnaire to 453 female undergraduates.
Now, should a student union wish to revoke its membership from the federation, a petition calling for a referendum on defederation must first receive signatures from 15 per cent of its members.
On Nov. 18 the University of Ottawa hosted a delegation from Belgium’s Université catholique de Louvain, where the two schools officially introduced a new master’s double-degree in criminology.
The panel was held in light of police surveillance and the case of Patrick Lagacé and other journalists in Québec and Canada whose cellphone calls and text messages were monitored by the police.
The discussion, which took place in Tabaret Hall, served as a launching pad for the new Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, which was developed following a $5 million donation by Trebek himself.
In the early morning of Sunday, Nov. 13, Amina-Sara Belahbib died following a collision on Highway 50 near Buckingham, Québec.
