Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has ranked the University of Ottawa among the worst in Canada in terms of freedom of expression.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesTD Bank Group presented three quarters of a million dollars to the University of Ottawa on Sept. 10.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE OTTAWA NEIGHBOURHOOD Study (ONS), a program created to provide easy access to various statistics and information concerning Ottawa’s 108 neighbourhoods has overhauled its website in order to make it more accessible and interactive.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDOCTOR THIERRY MESANA will take over for Dr. Robert Roberts as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in April 2014.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt least six people were killed and more than 30 injured after an OC Transpo double-decker bus hit a VIA Rail train in Ottawa on Sept. 18.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHundreds of federal science employees, students, and supporters in Canada came together Sept. 16 in protest of the alleged muzzling of scientists by the Harper government that has occurred in recent years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDexter Jagula is one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have recently applied to join the first one-way trip to Mars.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE UNION REPRESENTING support staff at the University of Ottawa will hold a strike mandate vote Sept. 16 and 17 following collective agreement negotiations with the university since June 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA UNIVERSITY OF Ottawa club is aiming to raise money and awareness for the Syrian people in light of the country’s ongoing crisis.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA administration has teamed up with the Student Academic Success Service (SASS), the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, and the vice president of academics in an attempt to help French-speaking students from predominantly English-speaking regions better adapt to university-level French courses.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCAMPUSGRIDS, A NEW social network created by four University of Ottawa students, aims to help students find clubs, events, and businesses.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo University of Ottawa students won $20,000 to further invest in their new company in a pitch competition for student entrepreneurs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students honoured for their achievements Daniel LeRoy | Fulcrum Staff UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA students Leah Stuart-Sheppard and Julia Koulik have received recognition in past months for their efforts and excellence in research. As per Allan Rock’s Vision 2020, his strategic plan for the university to be achieved by the year 2020, the …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA professors and academic librarians have reached a four-year labour deal that will create dozens of new tenure-track positions and salary increases.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Civil Liberties Association is asking the University of Ottawa to stop funding a private defamation lawsuit filed by professor Joanne St. Lewis against former professor Denis Rancourt.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ROYAL CANADIAN Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid charges in connection with the death of Emerson Curran.
Reading Time: 2 minutes You can make the most of your first week at the University of Ottawa by participating in as many events as you possibly can.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe study was performed at two Level 1 trauma centers and involved 37 consecutive patients over the age of 60 with SCIs related to C-spine fractures. Daneshvar determined the mortality rate and the risk factors for negative outcomes explained.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrowing numbers of applicants and a lack of on-campus space have been a growing problem that has forced Housing Service to place first-year students in Sandy Hill homes that the service owns and manages; however, this solution is no longer a viable option.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTTAWA’S PUBLIC TRANSIT will be hectic until 2018, according to Mayor Jim Watson. This year’s university move-in weekend will provide new and returning students with first-hand experience of the discord expected in the downtown core with the construction of the new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA COMMITTEE MADE up of members of Food Services, Housing Service, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), and more is deliberating on how to improve the U of O’s food services. “As campus stands right now, Food Services are unable to keep up with demand,” said Patrick Genest, director of Food Services. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo Bixi Bike stations have been installed on the University of Ottawa campus: one on Waller Street outside Hagen Hall and one outside of the Minto Sports Complex on King Edward Street.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA geography professor at the University of Ottawa was acquitted Aug. 21 of threatening to kill the head of his department during “venting sessions” with colleagues in the summer of 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O president aims to create ‘unmatched’ bilingual resource to contribute to public policy Photo by Mico Mazza CANADA WILL SEE its first school of government at the University of Ottawa as early as 2015, according to plans led by university president Allan Rock. The new school will aim to create a “national, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesReport calls program ‘deeply troubled,’ university halts admission of new students Photo by Adam Feibel The University of Ottawa has suspended admission of new students to its journalism program for the upcoming academic year. A university committee decided to suspend admission to the program at the earliest opportunity after an internal report to the …
