Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 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.
Opinions
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa police, please scrap the wristbands and start salvaging your relationship with the black community and the city of Ottawa at large.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt 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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith 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?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf 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?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMental 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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe took the opportunity to speak with editors of student newspapers across the country to get their take on their student federation’s structure.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHamilton is at least moving in the right direction with their new education based approach to regulating predatory payday loans.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Icelandic government will introduce new legislation this month to eradicate the pay gap between all forms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy shouldn’t the government use an inanimate object that belongs to nobody to offer someone a concrete chance at extending their life?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough the Canadian health care system covers all essential medical services for residents, medication and prescriptions are not covered by this plan.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhether 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesClosed, cautious, protectionist societies can only stand still for so long until the currents of time will sweep them off their feet.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf a candidate’s political campaign has boiled down exclusively to their fame, it may be worth asking if they are really qualified for the position of prime minister in the first place.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRegardless of la Rotonde’s intentions, this cartoon is discriminatory. It harkens back to an era of minstrel shows and blackface, when people of colour were mocked and degraded.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn general, motions in Canada are largely symbolic. For example, in 2015 Parliament unanimously passed a motion to make combating anti-Semitism a priority in Canada’s domestic and international activities. So why all the fuss about a motion for similar action against Islamophobia?
Reading Time: 2 minutesPiracy provides a way for people in extreme poverty or living under oppressive regimes to experience art that would be totally beyond their reach otherwise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time where personal genetic technology is advancing, and companies like 23andMe are offering such services to the public, it’s imperative that Canadians have legislation to protect them against the misuse of this technology.
