Reading Time: 3 minutesThe U of O’s men’s hockey team welcomed the Carleton Ravens to the Minto Sports Complex on Sunday. This was the first time the rival teams have met this season. With the Colonel By Classic less than a week away, this was a perfect opportunity for the teams to see where they stand.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe meeting in the University Centre Alumni Auditorium saw students fire criticism at the union for the recent re-approval of the official club status of an anti-abortion group on campus. The UOSU also made amendments to its constitution.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNieve Seguin is a four-year veteran on the U of O’s women’s volleyball team. Hailing from the small Franco-Ontarian village of Casselman, she looks to help a struggling team come back to relevance while balancing a tough med school schedule.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s mission accomplished for Chelsea Grills and the women’s hockey team. A mere couple of hours after being named the team’s interim head coach, the Stittsville native’s first win is in the books.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Recruits are often told ‘welcome to the family’ when they join. This is my first Remembrance Day as a member of the CAF, and so this year, I also feel like Remembrance Day is about appreciating that family,” said Robert Parsons, a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces and a U of O student.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFirefighters extinguished a fire in the U of O’s 90u residence building Sunday night, with no injuries reported. The fire was located in the garbage chute room of the building, said acting district chief Luc Marshall.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEight years after her father was killed by the Taliban for advocating for her right to go to school, Roya Shams fulfilled her and her father’s dream when she graduated from the University of Ottawa on Nov. 1. The 23-year-old now has plans to pursue a master’s degree or enrol in law school.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s fall byelections saw a number of vacant positions filled. The UOSU’s five-seat executive committee found their equity commissioner, while four empty seats on the Board of Directors have been filled.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter dropping their first game of the season against McGill University on Nov. 3, the Gee-Gees faced the Martlets for the second time this week at Montpetit Gym on Friday night.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYanick Evola has stepped down as head coach of the women’s hockey team, just hours before the team’s 7 p.m. game against Montreal on home ice.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U of O Press is the university’s academic publishing arm, printing titles on a wide range of academic topics, by professors at the U of O and else
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Venice Biennale is the largest contemporary art event in the world, with countries from around the globe exhibiting. In 2019, over 70 countries from every continent participated. Inuit film collective Isuma represented Canada this year, screening their film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a proposed $3.76 billion in spending, the City of Ottawa’s 2020 draft budget looks to improve the city’s troubled transit system by putting $7.5 million toward increasing service reliability while reducing wait times. An additional $15 million has been set aside to build more affordable housing units.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I also want to reassure residents that these LRT issues are being taken extremely seriously. Finding solutions to these problems continues to be the number one priority at City Hall,” said Mayor Jim Watson in a press release.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa unveiled a new statue by David General, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, on Oct. 28, celebrating the long and continuing history of the Anishinaabe people on this land.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe USports women’s rugby championships came to an end on Sunday with both the bronze and gold medal games taking place in the afternoon. The Gee-Gees and Rouge et Or both triumphed in close and exciting games.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man in his 30s was injured in a hit-and-run that took place at about 2:30 a.m. on Sunday at the intersection of Somerset Street East and King Edward Avenue. The man’s injuries are not considered life-threatening and the investigation is ongoing.
Reading Time: 5 minutesNothing More is beloved by their fans largely because of their lyrics, which openly and bluntly draw from dark experiences in the band members’ lives, but present these stories with hopeful messages of self-improvement and perseverance.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe men’s basketball team opened their regular season with a big test on Friday night at Montpetit Hall. The Gees faced the No. 6 ranked program in the country, the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks, in what promised to be a heated affair.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees had some good offensive moments in their USports women’s rugby semifinal against Queens on Friday night, but it wasn’t enough to stop the dominant visiting team from soaring to a 38-10 victory.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa women’s basketball team opened up their season on Friday night with a strong performance on home court. Head coach Andy Sparks’s troops dominated the Laurier Golden Hawks in a blowout win.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHeavily favoured to win the OUA women’s soccer championships this weekend, the Gee-Gees suffered their first setback in years in an upset overtime loss to the York Lions on Friday.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ottawa Police Service says a man has died after a stabbing in the ByWard Market on Thursday night.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThirty-one parties are claiming about $1.86 million from the University of Ottawa’s former student union, but its court-appointed receiver PwC estimates the total value of valid claims will be less than $1 million. The creditors range from student organizations and former employees to a landlord and a union, court documents show.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe School of Music’s Musicians’ Wellness Centre is an interdisciplinary centre that studies and provides treatment for health issues specific to musicians.
