Reading Time: 16 minutesFive students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Ottawa announced on Friday that they will suspend all operations in China after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Sports Services discouraged the social media accounts of Gee-Gees clubs and teams from posting content about Bell Let’s Talk, an annual online mental health fundraiser held on Jan. 29, according to emails obtained by the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe president of the University of Ottawa said a Scientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that has been widely condemned and protested by students is “outrageous” and “hurtful to many members of the community,” but ruled the school will not be removing the display.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEscapade Music Festival has revealed the lineup of DJs and producers set to take over TD Place in Lansdowne Park this June for the 11th edition of the annual electronic music festival.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDozens of University of Ottawa students spent hours on Wednesday protesting outside of the Scientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit that is being showcased all week in the University Centre, with many expressing their frustration with the school and its passive approach to the display.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCity council voted unanimously on Wednesday to declare an affordable housing and homelessness emergency, making Ottawa the first Canadian city to do so. The motion was brought by Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney, who is council’s liaison for housing and homelessness.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe provincial government has called a byelection in Ottawa-Vanier, which includes Sandy Hill and the University of Ottawa, for Feb. 27.
Reading Time: 4 minutesStudents are calling on the University of Ottawa to remove an anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that was set up just days after the university finished celebrating their annual wellness week.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Ottawa housing market can be a tough realm to navigate. Read up on some tips and tricks from tenant rights advocates, student renters, landlords, and mortgage brokers so you can find the best new pad that checks all your boxes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa men’s hockey team faced off against the Concordia Stingers on Sunday afternoon in the Minto Sports Complex. The last time these two teams played against each other, the Gee-Gees lost 8-7 in a high-scoring affair.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter defeating McGill 5-4 less than a week ago, the Gee-Gees were matched up against the Martlets on home ice for a tight, intense, game. In double overtime, Melodie Bouchard found the net to claim victory for the Gee-Gees.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees women’s volleyball team moved to 0-17 on the season Sunday afternoon. In spite of a strong start, the ladies in grey and garnet were no match for their opponents in Rouge et Or.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We can learn biology isolated in a classroom, but at the end of the day when we go out into the real world, which is so scary, all disciplines are going to be together, and we’re gonna have to figure it out from there.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesBorys Minger always knew he wanted to play basketball at a high level, and he knew that he would have to leave his hometown of Cayenne, French Guiana to do it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSound healing, also known as a sound bath, is exactly what it says on the tin: healing through sound. The healer uses a variety of percussive instruments, mainly gongs, singing bowls, and other Eastern instruments, to help you relax. It’s meditation with an aural element.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThings getting lazy in the bedroom? A tried and true remedy to the boring-sex-blues, take a page out of Di’s book with these simple role-play scenarios.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union voted to shift its executive structure at a Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, resurrecting the president position and adding a student services commissioner to its leadership team.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe provincial and federal governments announced on Wednesday that they reached an agreement to jointly fund a French-language university in Toronto, set to welcome students in 2021.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTrack and field athletes from across Ontario and Quebec touched down in Louis Riel Dome for two days of competition at the University of Ottawa’s national invitational this past weekend.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa has launched a scholarship fund to honour the three students who died in a plane crash near Tehran, Iran earlier this month. The scholarship fund is established in collaboration with the Canadian Science Policy Centre and the U of O will match all donations to the fund up to a maximum total of $100,000.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union plans to reopen Café Alt and Pivik in September 2020. The future of 1848 is still uncertain, while the union will not be bringing back the Agora Bookstore.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn what has become a tough season for the Gee-Gees women’s volleyball squad, the team hit the court at Montpetit Hall on Sunday afternoon desperately looking for their first win of the season.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees young guns prevailed as the U of O men’s basketball team picked up its third straight win with dominant performances from both Guillaume Pepin and Dragan Stajic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe women’s basketball team looked to improve on their 12-2 record down at Montpetit Hall on Saturday night. In a decisive win against the Ontario Tech Ridgeback, every sign points to the Gees continuing their domination of the OUA East division.
