Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees finished the championship with style, as the win over UBC marked their first victory over a Canada West team since beating the University of Manitoba Bisons back in 2007.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the wake of falling oil prices, can Canadians rely on Fort McMurray as a steady source of jobs and income?
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow the latest U of O Theatre play features a revolution of entertainment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI would have hoped that at this point most of the country would agree that the physical discipline of children is barbaric and is no way to teach developing minds right from wrong.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Ottawa, and its president Allan Rock, have filed a notice of motion seeking to strike the $6-million lawsuit of former U of O hockey players, according to the Ottawa Sun.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Association of University of New Brunswick teachers has made unproven allegations of harassment against the dean on behalf of faculty members.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEngineering students report fewer job advertisements and reduced co-op programs as a result of company cutbacks.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe OUA playoffs will take place on Feb. 28 at Montpetit Hall. Provided the Gees fend off the rest of their competition, they will look to compete for the number-one seed in the CIS Final Eight in Toronto starting in March.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe women’s basketball team had extra motivation to play hard at the Shoot for the Cure fundraiser game this year. Each season, the Gee-Gees take part in hosting a staple in Canadian University Sport (CIS), the Shoot for the Cure fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and research.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa led for the beginning of the first set, taking advantage of Toronto’s mistakes at the net. But it was Toronto’s attackers that made the difference in the long run, which the Gee-Gees couldn’t respond to consistently. Ottawa went on to win the next two sets, only to fall to Toronto in the final two.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMarc Schryburt wants sports to bring people together on campus. It’s been his dream for 20 years, and as a longtime football coach and sports program manager, he’s finally become the new Gee-Gees director of Sports Services.
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, the number of people watching television in a non-traditional fashion is growing, and that means the Nielsen system is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDear Di, I came back from the winter reading week, and I haven’t had any action for a while now (yes, my celibacy was going on a few weeks pre-reading week). While getting it on with a guy this week, I experienced the most painful sex ever. Like awful, gasping sex that had no pleasure …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe City of Ottawa transit commission voted in favour of a 2.5 per cent hike in OC Transpo fares on Feb. 18. According to the Ottawa Citizen, savings in other areas will allow OC Transpo to add more buses to the schedule.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut while this kind of legislation undoubtedly means well, it has one fatal flaw: It fails to consider the correlation between obesity and poverty.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThree University of Ottawa professors will share a $1.9-million grant from the federal government to support research on environmental risks.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow Drake’s new mixtape represents a shifting trend in the corporate side of the music industry and an effort to raise record sales.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFeaturing iconic and elaborate dance sequences, An American in Paris brought George Gershwin classics to the silver screen with an exquisite, multi talented cast.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Society for Eating and Television (SEAT) has released new research showing that binge-watching Netflix while eating junk food is the best way to prevent a number of known physical ailments.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmerican author Stanley G. Weinbaum was one of the first writers to introduce the idea of virtual reality in his 1935 novel, Pygmalion’s Spectacles. Eighty years later the fictional technology has found some real-world applications at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O Press beats Ivy League publishing houses in it’s latest PROSE award win.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEach year students are accused of being apathetic. Voter turnout was just over 10 per cent this year, about the same as last year. Many students appear to be happy to just pay their fees and go to class—they don’t care how their money is managed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a 500-page report titled “Staying Safe in a Cancerous World,” scientists have found an intrinsic link between cancer and literally every food, activity, and any other thing known to humanity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent outbreak of measles in Canada and the United States has sadly re-energized the anti-vaccine movement. This unfortunate reality is highlighted in a recent survey conducted by Mainstreet Technologies, which finds that 20 per cent of Ontarians believe that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has a causal relationship with autism.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI came to the University of Ottawa for a future. I wasn’t certain what that future would be, but in grade 12 I was sure I could make one. I had almost failed grade 11 biology, so a future in sciences wasn’t in the cards. I was no better at math. But I had skill, …
