Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanada must step up. Increasing the International Assistance Envelope (IAE) by $650 million in Budget 2025 is not just an investment—it is a lifeline.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMinister of Families, Children and Social Development of Canada Jenna Sudds has announced 11.8 million in funding for the U of O and McMaster, who lead the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe globe celebrated a tremendous milestone in 2022: child mortality rates reached an all-timelow, with a 50% reduction in fatalities among children under the age of five since 2000. Thisaccomplishment demonstrates the value of investing in health and education. Despite theseachievements, 4.9 million children die each year from avoidable causes, highlighting thecontinuous need for action. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Fulcrum sat down with third-year Gee-Gee Emma Archibald after she returned from a Para Nordic World Cup event in Italy.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI attended the “Antisemitism: Face it Fight it” conference hosted by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in October.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring frosh, there was a small protest in front of RBC’s booth at the Clubs and Wellness Fair. Protester Sarah Donnelly shares her story.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn2Ottawa has recently been in the news holding up traffic and even splashing pink paint on works of art in the National Art Gallery.
Reading Time: 6 minutesFulcrum Contributor Sydney Greiner on the STCA and Roxham Road.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Biden visits Ottawa for first time as POTUS.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“People who join in the military are serving something greater than themselves.”, said Petruk.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResidents of the poles only get a few hours of daylight at certain points of the year — if my seasonal depression is bad in Ottawa, I can’t even imagine the bottles of prozac and zoloft they go through.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFixating on recycling instead of reducing and reusing incentives is a wasteful production scheme.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the University of Ottawa’s Ukrainian Students Club (USC) has been gathering resources for Ukrainian students while staying in touch with family about the situation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo many Canadians simply have to decide between a paycheck and taking time to recuperate when they are sick.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSince the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation has seen an unprecedented spike ranging from dangerous home remedies to conspiracy theorists. How can we effectively handle misinformation, especially in academic circles?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Visitors can sift through the wide variety of topics through the photostories, transporting them from the industry stories of Toronto and Vancouver all the way to the remote environments of the Canadian arctic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDemonstrators chanted, “No Pride in Genocide!”, “Shame on Canada!”, and “Bring them home!” as they marched on Parliament Hill.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStéphane Jobin was named Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and permanent observer to the African Union on Feb. 16.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey exposed the Royal Family’s palace’s biggest flaws and has proven why it is finally time to abolish the monarchy once and for all.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a time of such broad societal change, there is one specific evolution that will impact virtually every element of our society in a positive way: a massive cultural and societal shift towards working from home.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“At times it’s overwhelming, but if it were not for my parents, my grandparents, their grandparents what they endured it wouldn’t be possible for me to be here,” said U of O alumni and Canada’s only Indigenous forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Thursday the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) announced that it is partnering with Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University College of Indigenous Studies (NDHU-CIS).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees have won the FISU World Cup! The women’s soccer team beat Brazil’s Paulista University in the finals to bring back gold to Ottawa.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe complex dynamics of the Canada-U.S. bilateral relationship In 1969, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau described the relationship between Canada and the United States in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it …
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust like the University of Ottawa campus, Canada is diverse and has much to offer, resulting in the attraction of people from all over the world.
