Reading Time: 3 minutes“Patients have to worry about how to follow up on the care they were given, assuming they find someone to see them in the first place.”
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Reading Time: 4 minutesGiven the severity of crises affecting marginalized groups across the city, students are disheartened by the city’s priorities
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow obviously if every U of O student took this advice it would upend the Ottawa housing market, but I have this hunch that less than 100 people will read this. So if you are one of the people heed my warnings: move out of Sandy Hill.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s never too late to start preparing, and the City of Ottawa’s Office of Emergency Management is here to help!
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy mom won’t be able to ride a bike for the rest of the season and I blame Mark.
Reading Time: 2 minutesParts of the city remain under Tornado watch and even more are experiencing severe thunderstorms.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Oct. 16, 2001, the Ottawa police and fire departments responded to a morning call from a tenant in a building near the corner of Goulburn Avenue and Somerset Street in Sandy Hill. Why? Tenants believed they had found anthrax in their mailbox.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The mayor’s office has reached out to say that they are planning to reimburse Carleton students and uOttawa students the cost of the December portion of the U-Pass cost,” said Tim Gulliver, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union president.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlans to pave local park to create parking spaces have been withdrawn.
Reading Time: 9 minutesFor the 2021 election cycle, the Fulcrum is interviewing the four major parties candidates in Ottawa-Vanier. Here’s our interview with the Conservative Party’s Heidi Jensen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFeminine hygiene products will soon be available at community centres in Albion Heatherington, Overbrook, Sandy Hill, and Foster Farm.
Reading Time: 5 minutesCaroline Cox of the Shepherds of Good Hope knew in March when the pandemic hit, they would be in trouble, not just for the number of already-vulnerable persons they help but in losing their dedicated senior volunteers leaving for their health and safety. However, their downtown Ottawa location has had an unexpected uptick in the number of student volunteers.
Reading Time: 5 minutes‘Renoviction’ and gentrification business strategies have raised concerns in a Sandy Hill mass eviction slated for the end of October. University of Ottawa law professors and their students are using their lab to help support tenants.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround 65 people will move into the building on King Edward Avenue on Monday after a request was made by the City of Ottawa. The building was not in use when the city made its request, according to the university.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a proposed $3.76 billion in spending, the City of Ottawa’s 2020 draft budget looks to improve the city’s troubled transit system by putting $7.5 million toward increasing service reliability while reducing wait times. An additional $15 million has been set aside to build more affordable housing units.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe hope was that students would opt for the UOSU’s tailgate party instead of the infamous street party on Russell Avenue, but a “rotation of roughly 600-700 students” attended the tailgate in the Sandy Hill Arena parking lot while thousands flooded Russell Avenue.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVanier does not need outside bureaucrats to put some spit and polish on their main street or marginally improve their homelessness resources. They need entrepreneurial programs, social services, and educational opportunities that recognize the ward’s diversity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe challenge, which ran from Feb. 4 to 10, resulted in a higher lack of productivity than usual, with only three of 23 councillor seats occupied throughout the week. (Councillors who were not part of the challenge still used it as an excuse for their absences).
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis incredible dependency upon shelters reveals that employment and housing initiatives need to be radically overhauled.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I think this is an amazing use for our pointless diplomas, instead of just letting them sit in our houses collecting dust.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“For the Gallery to hire this individual sends a very clear message to trans lives that we’re not valued in these spaces.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents returning to school this September will be welcomed by a familiar sight—campus construction. And this time, some of it is here to stay for an extended period.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile construction of the new light rail transit (LRT) campus station might be inconvenient for commuters, it also introduces a new set of challenges for the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility, which houses millions of dollars of research equipment.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA safe, introductory health-care service, where users have the freedom to explore their options without fear of being charged, is desperately needed in Ottawa. By allowing addicts to use drugs in a space where they are surrounded by health-care professionals and treatment pamphlets, seeking addiction treatment becomes a step that’s much less dramatic and scary.
Reading Time: 8 minutesIf the Liberal government makes good on its promise to legalize and delivers, the city should be primed and ready to take that groovy responsibility head on.
