Reading Time: < 1 minuteUSports has decided that it will hold the women’s and men’s volleyball championships in Calgary and Winnipeg this weekend behind closed doors, with only essential personnel present due to the spread of COVID-19. There is still no word on if the men’s hockey championships, taking place in Halifax, will be impacted.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University of Ottawa says it is considering moving the rest of the semester online as early as next week, while also cancelling some events on campus and suspending university-related travel for students and staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in the school community.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa has introduced a new medical note policy amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, with two cases of the virus confirmed in Ottawa as of Thursday.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Ministry of Health confirmed Ottawa’s first case of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, a man in 40s who contracted the virus while travelling in Austria. He is currently in self-isolation and was not symptomatic during his return flight to Canada.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the recent resignation of their chief electoral officer, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s elections committee would need to fill the position at least a week before their scheduled town hall debate on March 23 in order for the process to run smoothly, according to the temporary chair of the elections committee.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe survey measured the prevalence rates of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking on campuses since the start of the 2017-18 academic year to the time the survey was conducted from February to April 2018. At the U of O, prevalence rates were below or in line with averages across Ontario universities.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOttawa police have laid 12 additional charges of voyeurism and trespass at night against a 31-year-old Gatineau man, with alleged incidents in Sandy Hill spanning from November 2019 to last month.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLess than a week before the campaign period for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s general elections is set to begin, both the chief electoral officer and the bilingual elections officer have resigned, citing circulating concerns from board members and employees over their former work as co-founders of the union.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s executive committee has responded to the resignation of advocacy commissioner Sam Schroeder, who cited concerns over the committee’s appointment of a former Student Federation of the University of Ottawa manager as director of services in his departure letter on Saturday.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Carleton Ravens have won the USports men’s basketball national championship, defeating the Dalhousie Tigers 74-65 on home court. UBC won bronze, pulling away late in a tough matchup against Western.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe bronze baby will be heading to Saskatoon with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. The Huskies hammered the Brock Badgers in the finals of the USports women’s basketball national championships 82-64.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a four-day span, two mental health demonstrations outside of Tabaret Hall were organized by University of Ottawa students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo you’re thinking about dating a Gemini. Spoiler: don’t.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt might have taken three overtime periods but the winner of the Queen’s Cup was decided in Guelph on Saturday night, with the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team falling just short of their first-ever Queen’s Cup title. Ted Nichol found the back of the net, putting an end to a tightly contested affair.
Reading Time: 5 minutesDay 2 of the USports basketball national championships welcomed the top eight men’s teams in the country to TD Place Arena for a lineup of exciting quarterfinal matchups.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFive University of Ottawa professors are receiving more than $2 million in funding from the federal government to support research projects aimed at addressing the COVID-19 epidemic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSam Schroeder has resigned from his role as the advocacy commissioner of the University of Ottawa Students’ Union, citing concerns over the executive committee’s appointment of a former Student Federation of the University of Ottawa manager as director of services.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOttawa police have charged a 31-year-old Gatineau man with voyeurism after he allegedly looked into the window of a Sandy Hill apartment building early Friday morning.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDay 1 of the women’s basketball national championships saw upsets, strong individual performance, and blowouts. Read our recap of the first four games of the tournament.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Students’ Union hosted a town hall engagement panel on Feb. 27 at the University Centre’s Agora, where the executive committee provided updates on the various initiatives they’ve undertaken and answered questions from students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa said on Wednesday that it has launched an international travel registry, mandatory for students and non-academic staff, and suspended operations in Iran amid the spread of COVID-19. University operations in China were suspended back in January.
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast month, 246 Canadian academics collaborated with Extinction Rebellion and signed an open letter that called on the federal government to take action against the climate crisis. The Fulcrum spoke with two of the seven University of Ottawa professors who signed the letter.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union hosted the annual Black History Month gala on Saturday at the Westin Hotel, marking the first time that the new student union has held the event.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe University of Ottawa was one of the many schools across Canada that hosted a student walk-out to show support for hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation on Wednesday. An information session was set up in the school’s University Centre, where Indigenous youth helped attendees make sense of the situation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Black Leaders Student Association made an energetic and warm-hearted impression during their annual “Soulful Expressions” talent showcase on Friday night in the University Centre’s Alumni Auditorium.
