Reading Time: 18 minutes“School’s great, but getting involved with the Fulcrum is so much better.” — Katherine DeClerq, Fulcrum alum.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Friday June 1, Ottawa-based indie rock band Fools of Love released their first full-length album,The Howl and the Whisper.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a vehicle near the Minto Sports Complex on March 31.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJer’s Vision, an Ottawa-based non-profit organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, has renamed itself as the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD), recognizing its national outreach.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt was a childhood dream come true when Erik Miksik stepped on the ice with the Ottawa Senators over reading week for a little taste of the big leagues.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“When I told people to please follow lockdown procedures, I don’t know if it’s just because they didn’t take me seriously because I was technically a student, but none of them even seemed to know what exactly that meant,” he said.
Reading Time: 3 minutesExecutive members of the SFUO showed up at the unveiling of the Advanced Research Complex (ARC) to demand the Ontario government to drop student tuition fees and further invest in post-secondary education.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTroubled program will get fresh start in 2015, two years after admission freeze After nearly a year of uncertainty, the University of Ottawa’s suspended journalism program will return next year following a significant makeover. The university says its new digital journalism program will teach students the skills they need to break into a media industry …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFormer University of Ottawa professor Denis Rancourt was convicted on June 5 of committing libel against another professor.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLetters have drawn backlash from Toronto students for ‘meddling’ in their student politics Photo by Julia Malowany/The Varsity Student unions across Ontario are urging the University of Toronto’s governing council to reject a new policy recommendation they say would sacrifice the autonomy of its student unions. Last month, the University of Toronto Student Societies Summit submitted …
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Symbolic’ motion presented at emergency council meeting called to address status of new employee position Photo by Tina Wallace In an emergency meeting on April 30 called to take action on a one-year employee trial position with the Graduate Students’ Association (GSAÉD), the association’s council also faced motions to remove two of its executive members …
Reading Time: 2 minutesHospital performed record-breaking 36 heart transplants last year Photo by Adam Feibel The University of Ottawa Heart Institute conducted 36 successful heart transplants last year, earning the top spot for most heart surgeries performed in Canada in 2013. “I’m very proud of what’s been accomplished by my colleagues in the last year,” Dr. Thierry Mesana, …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThings aren’t looking much better for the University of Ottawa’s journalism program.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first General Assembly referendum was a bit of a dud. But this time around, student voters at the University of Ottawa have ushered in the GA as the highest decision-making body of the student federation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe SFUO executive will remain almost unchanged from this year to next as the Student Action slate has swept the general election once again.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn arbitrator has ruled against former professor Denis Rancourt’s bid to reclaim his job at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe two University of Ottawa professors who conducted a research study that included an interview with accused killer Luka Magnotta have won their legal bid to quash a Montreal police warrant for the video.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z will make an appearance in Ottawa to talk about his dealings with the undead and a variety of other topics on March 5.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe move toward university specialization and differentiation in Ontario shouldn’t be considered “a threat to the value of a degree,” according to University of Ottawa president Allan Rock.
Reading Time: 4 minutesConsidering Franco-Ontarians are plenty in number but hugely underrepresented at universities throughout the province, it’s an important discussion to have.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s time for the University of Ottawa to decide “what it is we’re going to be known for,” according to university president Allan Rock.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students can be seen wearing white poppies pinned to their lapels this Remembrance Day in an effort to promote peace, not war.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa by-elections will take place Oct. 29–31 as two slates and a number of independents look to fill remaining positions on student and university government.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSix people were killed and more than 30 injured after an OC Transpo double-decker bus hit a VIA Rail train in Ottawa on Sept. 18. Among the deceased are two Carleton University students, Kyle Nash and Connor Boyd, both 21.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPhotos courtesy of Mike Langlais (CUP) Schools from coast to coast can learn a thing or two about frosh from the University of Ottawa. About 200 students and professors gathered at Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax, N.S. on Sept. 12 to rally against sexual violence in the wake of an offensive chant that …
