The #trashtag challenge gets people off of their phones and into the filth.
Connor Chase
Because whistleblowing is a serious check on corruption, the establishment of whistleblowing protection is something worth considering moving forward with the University of Ottawa Student Union (UOSU).
With the UOSU’s March elections around the corner, students Connor Chase and Hanna Methot debate whether previous SFUO executives should be allowed to run.
Some students prefer online readings, others prefer physical textbooks. A third group, faced with this dilemma, just opt out of doing readings at all.
Closing the residences over the break is actually a huge problem for lots of students. Short-term accommodations are provided by the university, but having to move all of your stuff to a new place for only three weeks, so that the university can inspect your unit, seems unnecessary.
This incredible dependency upon shelters reveals that employment and housing initiatives need to be radically overhauled.
The time for a new student union has come. But this is also a time where we, as a student body, need to be careful and calculated.
The guidelines put forth by the Ford administration for the university freedom of speech policies have been vague, leaving many to wonder what variations will be seen across the board, or if there should be variations at all.
You really can’t go far off campus without seeing a statue of MacDonald—not to mention that there’s a pub and a parkway named after him too.
This back to school season marks the last year all university first-years were born before 9/11. In the following testimonies, contributors express how they believe 9/11 shaped their generation and their lives.
Should the drinking age in Ontario be lowered to 18, or should it remain the same as it is now?
If this fight against straws is representative of the amount work we are willing to do, we should be embarrassed.
The play itself deals with some dark themes, and its characters are complicated and flawed. They are often contradictory and always conflictual.
A journalist was recently arrested for being a journalist. Is that a hyperbolic oversimplification of a nuanced and complicated Radio-Canada case? Yes and no.
The only way forward is to make zero waste be the universal standard. Make every business be like Nu Grocery. Make every business sustainable.
Dostoyevsky left no place for laughter in his novel. His message, among many, is clear: Actions have consequences. And some consequences can drag you into the unimaginable depths of hell.
How susceptible are we to complex social pressures? Moreover, given the right circumstances, are we willing to do something in the heat of the moment that we would normally consider wrong?
The majority of university education consists of rote memorization; from history to the sciences, exams are a regurgitation of memorized formulas, facts, and systems.
The Williams Lake Indian Band case is an example of courts leading the way in the path towards reconciliation, but there is still much work to do.
The study concluded that the best way to move forward in criminal justice reform is an appeal to fairness, labelling it a universal human concern.
The Canadian government was grossly mistaken when they extradited Hassan Diab. If Canada is unable or unwilling to protect its own citizens on its own soil then the problem is much larger than just extradition reform.
While the cooks and server staff get to talk and laugh and socialize together, the dishwasher is almost always isolated, sent away to the back corner of the kitchen to do the monotonous job alone.
Inadequate mental health funding at the U of O can help explain why it was recently ranked lowest in student satisfaction. Such a statistic ought to be embarrassing for a university that purports to represent the nation’s capital.
Having such photos displayed publicly for everyone you know and care about to see is humiliating and emotionally damaging. Beyond this, photos posted online can exist in the ether forever, and impact a person’s quality of life and job prospects.
The leak covers a wide range of figures and companies, from the Queen of England to Loblaw and former Canadian prime ministers.
