Reading Time: 2 minutesA new environmentally focused Telfer program is launched in collaboration with the School of Management and the Centre for Sustainable Impact and Innovation in Development and a large donation from RBC.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Student’s Union (UOSU) has passed a motion in support of Palestine at the Winter General Assembly on Mar. 10.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEl Huda cited differences with other UOSU executives as the focal point of her immediate resignation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA student has tested positive for COVID-19 at the University of Ottawa’s 45 Mann residence. The student is receiving health care and self-isolating.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa announced late on Thursday afternoon that it will open its own COVID-19 assessment centre at Lees campus. The assessment centre is projected to open in September and will for the time being only serve students, staff, and faculty members on campus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAli Mubiru, a Black third-year student at the University of Ottawa, says he and his friend, who is a person of colour, were carded by Protection Services while waiting inside his parked car outside the U of O’s 90U residence in spring 2019.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter previously only encouraging students to do so, the University of Ottawa says everyone living in residence except for international students and those with “exceptional circumstances” needs to move out by this Sunday at 4 p.m. due to mounting concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the school’s administration announced its decision to cancel classes this Monday and Tuesday and shift the semester online on Wednesday due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union is following suit and will shift its upcoming general elections completely online.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe U of O has cancelled classes and labs on Monday and Tuesday and will move the remainder of the semester to online or distance learning on Wednesday due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The campus remains open and there are still no confirmed cases of the virus in the U of O community
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: < 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: < 1 minuteOttawa police are asking for the public’s help with an ongoing voyeurism investigation in Sandy Hill. Detectives are probing seven incidents that have taken place since October where a man wearing a black hoodie was seen looking into women’s windows, police say.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFirefighters extinguished a fire in the U of O’s 90u residence building Sunday night, with no injuries reported. The fire was located in the garbage chute room of the building, said acting district chief Luc Marshall.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA bullet tore through the window of a U of O highrise residence building in the early hours of Sunday morning, hurting no one but sending ripples of panic through the building and sparking confusion over a delayed public response from the university.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith an open letter to president Jacques Frémont, over 100 professors and librarians at the U of O have joined the chorus of voices demanding further action in the wake of the two carding incidents that have taken place on campus in the past four months.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UOSU, BSLA, OPIRG, CUPE 2626, WISE and 16 student governments say the U of O ‘fails to address systemic racism in a meaningful way’ and calls on U of O president Jacques Frémont to implement eight demands for action.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPresident announces new limits on the authority of security when requesting proof of identity, an updated complaint system and unconscious bias training among officers.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe IPPSSA was forced to seek out missing funds after public administration students were missing the student association fee option when paying tuition.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Black student says he was carded and then handcuffed by campus security on a busy street for over two hours for not having identification, spurring widespread accusations of racism, racial profiling and harassment
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe CFS says the province lacked the authority to implement the policy and acted with improper purpose in doing so
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNelson Street closed between Somerset and Templeton streets, OC Transpo Route 16 on detour.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the second student death to have occurred in less than a month
Reading Time: 3 minutesTuition at Ontario universities and colleges will be reduced by 10 per cent starting in the 2019-2020 academic year and continuing into the next.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Saturday, March 25, the body of University of Ottawa student Jérémy Michael Gauvin was removed from his apartment in Ottawa. Gauvin’s parents were notified of their son’s death the following day by Ottawa and Oakville police.
