Reading Time: 3 minutesA pandemic-era solution has inadvertently presented the University with a golden opportunity to reduce food waste from its dining hall
Opinions
Reading Time: 4 minutesLove, of all kinds, is truly one of the most important things for humanity to hold on to, now more than ever.
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou never know when a friend could become a foe this April Fools’ Day.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCritical understaffing and high risk are burning out frontline workers on every side. These are the people eclipsed by our new reality. Why do we actively choose to martyrize frontline workers rather than provide them true relief? We resign these people to their fates as if it’s out of our hands.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt sounds to me an awful lot like a $1 beer platform — policy change that benefits a privileged population while an underprivileged one is periodically neglected.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the University of Ottawa, registering for a gym session creates the same adrenaline as buying concert tickets, but instead of getting to see Harry Styles live on tour, I get to exercise.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen I requested that U of O students send in their U-Pass photos, I was met with overwhelming trepidation and cowardice. Do I blame them? Only a little.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIs it fair to expect fellow minimum wage workers to fork up more money than their bills require simply because employers are not willing to pay their employees a liveable wage?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is so insanely easy to continue on with daily life as if the concrete jungle is where we evolved and that the coyotes moving into the cities are not supposed to be there.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResidents of the poles only get a few hours of daylight at certain points of the year — if my seasonal depression is bad in Ottawa, I can’t even imagine the bottles of prozac and zoloft they go through.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf there’s one constant at every University of Ottawa party, it’s that there’s always gonna be one Carleton student who really wants you to know that they don’t go to “OttawaU”.
Reading Time: 3 minutes What I considered attending class ranged from sitting at my desk with my camera on and participating extensively in class discussions, to opening my computer, logging on to my 8:30 a.m. class with my camera off, then going back to sleep.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFixating on recycling instead of reducing and reusing incentives is a wasteful production scheme.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou shouldn’t need a specific day, or two in Ottawa’s case, to show your love.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTurns out, aging rears its salt-and-peppered head in intangible ways sooner than it does in imperfections of the skin.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo many Canadians simply have to decide between a paycheck and taking time to recuperate when they are sick.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLove and kindness are alive and well on the University of Ottawa campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fact of the matter is that people are born to be whatever sexuality they are, and nothing can change that — not even the media they consume at a young age.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe have concerns about the vague wording within individual articles, and how that could lead to articles being interpreted in a way to punish students for actions that don’t harm other students, but instead the reputation of the University.
Reading Time: 8 minutesFor the game to be worth playing, watching, and supporting, it must first be fair. It must, thus, prioritize equity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo the girl on 90U floor nine with the fish flops, where did you get them? Asking for me.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFinding work for the summer is usually a cause of stress for university students of all programs. However, international students at U of O (and other Canadian universities) have it even harder.
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou claim you’re ‘fighting for our freedoms’, and yet, you’re verbally attacking those who disagree with your opinions.
Reading Time: 4 minutesBell, let’s talk about money, how you treat your employees, prisons, and mental health.
Reading Time: 7 minutesBill 21 is not the great equalizer it claims to be. How could it be, when all people are not being affected equally by it? Worse, when it infringes on citizens’ guaranteed Canadian fundamental freedoms?
