Reading Time: < 1 minuteU of O student amazed how popular they have become since the UOSU elections started.
The Tomato
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy nightfall, the crew was seemingly trapped in the university square. Surviving members utilized paper copies of their syllabus, left in their bags since the start of the term, as kindling until the conditions improved.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMario Quinn went home to the Sault. Erik Pinto is spending half the week in Montreal. No one knows where Youssef Tangri went. Matt Rolfe enjoyed a sunny vacation at his mother’s in Stittsville. But how did “Lamoureux” the apartment tabby spend his break week?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fulcrum found Joel Loughin, 3rd year Environmental Sciences major, half asleep on the fifth floor of FSS. When the Fulcrum asked how he was adapting midterm season, he muttered to himself that he just needed to “lock in.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesHer friend group, which is mostly made up of other 14th floor residents of 90u, recently started an Instagram group chat called “the fourteenth floor gang.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new program features several actors simulating scenarios such as professors losing a student’s exam and a student hosting a live-stream at the back of the lecture hall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA first-year student is pulling out all the stops to stay in Ottawa this summer, fearing a return home.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst year courses within the ECH, CMN, and ENG codes saw students engage in a variety of low-level distractions such as: posting to r/geegees, responding to inflammatory posts on X (formerly Twitter), stalking former partners on Instagram, and humble-bragging on LinkedIn.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA small team of hobby metal detectors were then called in to examine the remnants of the melt, discovering three beer cans, a pee-wee soccer award, and what appeared to be a partially intact car bumper.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe SFUO’s return is in jeopardy after UOSU and GSAED both reportedly denied their request for club funding.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIan Debtor is putting his rent money to good use — on a 17-leg March Madness parlay.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery year, thousands of high school students apply to colleges and universities across North America, hoping to find their perfect academic match. But sometimes, that match comes with unexpected surprises, like accidentally enrolling in an entirely different country.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Tomato, formerly produced by the Fulcrum as a satiric column, is set to move into its own offices and launch a new website and Instagram page before the 2025-2026 school year begins.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChemistry professor Mo Lequele is taking the idea of performing for your grade to the next level — by hosting a talent show for students to compete to get out of their midterms.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter defrauding 40 million Canadian citizens into thinking 2025 would have an early spring, Wiarton Willie has skipped town and is on the lamb, with the RCMP now trying to track down the deceptive weasel — er, groundhog.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe National Capital Commission (NCC) has installed speed cameras on the Rideau Canal to catch speeding skaters in an effort to raise revenue.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn arguably the most important election in recent memory, the UOC voted to extend voting rights to rats on November 13. In a 20-19 vote split, the motion proposed by Councillor R‘Coon, a longtime rat ally, passed, after three hours of heated debate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Tomato has been denied several attempts to interview the lead honesty officer at the university’s Investigation into Accountability Institute since last winter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCity of Ottawa plans to improve transportation by thinking a bit too far outside of the box.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt a press conference held on Tuesday morning, Pedro the Panda announced that he was cancelling any appearances outside of Sunday’s homecoming football game.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCalvin Bidley has been suspended by intramurals commissioner Roger Baddell for gambling on his own team’s games. Bidley alleges he bet against his team and then threw the games to make beer money.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a surprise appearance, the U of O President, Jacques Frémont has arrived to central campus as a means to greet students for the start of a new semester. His presence, however, has prompted students to ask, “Who the hell is this?”
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngineering professor Braughken Axel sent out an email to his ENG1104 students on Aug. 31 to inform them that the first week of classes will be held in an O-Train car.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing the success of the Ontario government’s introduction of alcohol to convenience stores in the province, Premier Doug Ford has announced they will also be able to sell cannabis starting in April.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing a recent debate at the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s (UOSU) Board of Directors meeting, UOSU has admitted they are “seriously considering” supporting a recent initiative by the National Capitol Commission (NCC) to drain the water in the Rideau Canal and replace it with Arizona Iced Tea.
