Reading Time: 2 minutesWith another COVID shutdown around the corner, here’s an introduction to Inktober, a low-stress drawing challenge for beginning artists looking for a new hobby as well as longtime pros.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCommission on Presidential Debates believes that hosting a live stream over the popular 2018 party game is the best depiction of democracy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAllie Brosh lets us into the last seven years of her life and beyond in her elegant and ever-funny new book.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The University of Ottawa places tremendous value on the student experience, yet it also recognizes that it has improvements to make in supporting student mental health and support for students in crisis,” write Mireille McLaughlin and Jenepher Lennox Terrion.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLots of Ottawa residents have been making the most of the scattered electric scooters. But did one raccoon take it too far?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is no reason good enough to justify partying during COVID-19. If you are posting photos and videos where you are clearly breaking social distancing rules on social media, then don’t be surprised if people are mad at you.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUniversity of Ottawa law alumna Annamie Paul won the Green Party leadership race last night in the eighth round of voting. Paul is the first Black Canadian and Jewish woman to be elected as the permanent leader of one of the five major federal political parties.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA leaked email from a University of Ottawa professor apologizing for using a racial slur in class was posted on Twitter and has quickly sparked outrage within the University community.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man who broke into a Daly Avenue apartment has been charged with arson this morning.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1992, it wasn’t COVID-19 that was responsible for the cancellation of Gee-Gees varsity sports programming it was meningitis as the city of Ottawa fought an outbreak that left at least six dead and led to the decision to vaccinate approximately 155 000 children in the National Capital Region.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn lieu of Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30, here is a list of local events and content the University of Ottawa community can participate in.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEchoing throughout the remnant stained glass of the former Sandy Hill All Saints Anglican Church on Sept. 17 was an emotional celebration of the first-ever diploma graduating class of the Inuit Community Support Worker and Management Trainee Program.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the most recognizable acts of activism observed by non-Indigenous Canadians all over the country today is land acknowledgments. But while they are a way to reflect on Canada’s colonialist past and history of broken treaties, they fail to address its colonialist present and our collective lack of action when it comes to indigenous issues.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you are a settler in this country who has not yet seen the Netflix documentary There’s Something In the Water, you should stop reading and watch it immediately.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe cinema is where I had my first big birthday party. It’s where I saw my first horror film. And it’s also where I went on my first date. Even though the pandemic bars me from the cinema, I hold onto the notion that the cinema is a place of inspiration where I learned to empathize with people with stories different from my own.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa has announced that the 2021 winter semester will be held online aside from a few exceptions. Because of COVID-19, staff and students have been forced to adjust to online learning methods for the 2020 spring/summer term, and the 2020 fall term. Is continuing on a remote learning format the way to go or should the University consider returning to in-person courses?
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Spotlight on the University of Ottawa Esports Club: How the competitive gaming scene has made its way onto the University of Ottawa campus.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“It would appear that, after being met with all the fanfare of a watershed historical moment, the TRC has unfortunately proven ineffectual in fomenting the decolonized, Indigenous futurist society anticipated by its proponents,” writes Shann Chiu a third-year U of O English student.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAzadeh Dastmalchi a University of Ottawa PhD student and the co-founder of VitalTracer has developed a smartwatch that can monitor vitals and help in the fight against COVID-19.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2019, the Indigenous Resource Center published their Indigenous Action Plan which outlines four hoops that plan to integrate Indigenous knowledge and representation into the University of Ottawa. Recently one area of concern has been the lack of representation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe University of Alberta’s French campus has fallen victim to funding cuts for the last 20 years and an overall lack of support from the U of A. L’Association Canadienne-Française de l’Alberta is now taking action to get additional funding to help support francophone students in Alberta.
Reading Time: 5 minutes‘Renoviction’ and gentrification business strategies have raised concerns in a Sandy Hill mass eviction slated for the end of October. University of Ottawa law professors and their students are using their lab to help support tenants.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFull of charisma, enthusiasm, and great dance moves, team mascots always keep fans on their feet. They deserve a lot of thanks — and a name.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been in a happy relationship throughout the summer. We spent plenty of time together, and always made plans for when we’d see each other next. Now that classes have started, we’ve both become busier people. Unfortunately, I am struggling with seeing my partner less often, wondering when we’re going to make plans, and simply, dealing with getting less attention. Do you have any advice to help me adjust to these changes?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Thursday the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) announced that it is partnering with Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University College of Indigenous Studies (NDHU-CIS).
