Individual members should make a point of reading the constitution in its entirety. It’s a long document, but if you’re elected to serve the students it’s only fair you have to do your homework.
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Sanctuary cities may not be legally binding in a lot of cases, but it is the first step in making people feel welcome.
It’s long past time to say it clearly and loudly: the SFUO needs radical reform, and it needs it now.
On behalf of the University’s administration, I want to respond to the recent letter to the editor concerning uOttawa’s mental health services.
I am writing to the Fulcrum for one reason: the SFUO Food Bank needs your help! We are bursting at the seams with a surplus of food and need help giving that food away.
This document contains many promising ideas that could improve life for several different types of students. However, it also fails to provide a clear roadmap to achieve to these goals in a lot of places.
Ottawa police, please scrap the wristbands and start salvaging your relationship with the black community and the city of Ottawa at large.
At the end of the day, academic fraud is a serious crime that has been neglected by students for years. It’s time universities take action and show the seriousness of this act.
With the U-Pass and health plan being the two biggest budget lines under the purview of the SFUO, it’s worth asking: should the university administration step in and clean up the mess that their students have made?
If people are using a dating app, they may very well be using more than one, or even way more than one, or alternating between them. Why limit their choices?
This past week, it is the opinion of the Fulcrum editorial board that campus press institutions have been subject to attempted pressure tactics by members of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) executive.
If the SFUO wants to convince students that they have any legitimate influence in the affairs of their own federation, they must uphold the decision made at the GA to reverse the salary increases.
We need to be more critical of the methods we use to measure health, especially since different people have different goals, from getting a good summer body to training for a powerlifting competition.
Whether or not the climate in student politics is boiling or balmy, the GA is a useful tool for you to help fix problems you see in our student union.
While the SFUO seems ready to put the U-Pass scandal all behind them, there are still fundamental questions that must be answered to ensure something nefarious did not happen.
Mental health affects us all. I personally know many students struggling with this issue every day, and I am terrified of the consequences that will occur because they weren’t able to receive adequate help.
We took the opportunity to speak with editors of student newspapers across the country to get their take on their student federation’s structure.
Hamilton is at least moving in the right direction with their new education based approach to regulating predatory payday loans.
The Icelandic government will introduce new legislation this month to eradicate the pay gap between all forms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality.
Why shouldn’t the government use an inanimate object that belongs to nobody to offer someone a concrete chance at extending their life?
While everyone is proposing grandiose ideas to fix the student federation, we might as well talk about some simple structural changes that will make further reform easier.
Although the Canadian health care system covers all essential medical services for residents, medication and prescriptions are not covered by this plan.
Whether it’s classifying revenge porn as sexual assault, or initiating an overhaul in how our police services deal with sexual cybercrimes, it’s clear that something has to change.
Closed, cautious, protectionist societies can only stand still for so long until the currents of time will sweep them off their feet.
Are dumb phones the way of the future? Probably not. Will they ultimately replace your far-more-capable smartphone? Also not likely. But that doesn’t mean they can’t play a useful role in your life, at least for a while.
