Reading Time: 2 minutesMy friend is having a 2016 party, how can I bear it? Because when I think of 2016 I think of that election. Because a woman in Minneapolis had her head blown off, with stuffed animals in the gloved compartment. Because my brother is joining the reserves. “If war happens I’d rather be prepared” he …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAI systems encode the values and metrics we give them. If the metrics are only economic or human-centred, we risk building powerful tools that continue extracting from ecosystems rather than regenerating them
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe plastics we commonly use are produced from petroleum and go into the manufacturing of a large quantity of goods. They are a main source of pollution.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI fear that the unusual temperatures will become the new normal. Even worse, but hardly surprising, no one seems to care.The Canal is dying, and so are we.
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: 2 minutesThe way climate change impacts our agriculture and global food supply has always presented an existential threat. But food has always meant more than survival for us as human beings. It’s heavily integrated in our cultural practices and oftentimes our way of life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere at The Fulcrum, we’re not strangers to talking about climate change. Why Worry About Their Futures reflects our worries about the future of the world right back at us.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGen Z and millennials are putting their social and political values first when choosing where to work
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey’re invisible to our naked eyes and are birthed in the bellies of demons (humans, cows and pigs mainly) and require hellish conditions to thrive (environments free of oxygen). What could they be? Methanogens of course!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe bison have been experiencing a change in their habitat, the shallow lakes whose shores they depend on for their nutrition have been expanding, making the habitat unfit for the Mackenzie herd.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is so insanely easy to continue on with daily life as if the concrete jungle is where we evolved and that the coyotes moving into the cities are not supposed to be there.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We owe it to future generations to do everything we can today to mitigate the effects of climate change while we can still have an impact,” said U of O president Jacques Frémont in a press release.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“If we do not straighten out out priorities soon, there may be nothing left on our planet to protect,” said David Suzuki.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There’s already so much research on bees and butterflies, which is a good thing but I think it’s also a good thing to study under underrepresented groups,” said U of O PhD candidate Catherine Sirois-Delisle.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRetrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) occurring in the arctic are largely at the mercy of changing summer climates
Reading Time: 3 minutes“In seventeen years of teaching at the University of Ottawa, I have found that a majority of students are optimistic … This year, students were unanimous in their despair. Climate inaction was on their mind … Students could not come up with any solution that they believed would get us off our disastrous track,” writes professor Thomas Boogaart of the University of Ottawa’s department of history.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCommentary: In the wake of the University of Toronto’s divestment announcement, a precedent has been set in this province by its biggest university. Will the U of O finally follow suit?
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I hope to accomplish creating a new generation of scientists that will be able to go out into the world and be successful and effective members of society in their role as scientists”
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: 8 minutesFor the 2021 election cycle, the Fulcrum is interviewing the four major parties candidates in Ottawa-Vanier. Here’s our interview with the Liberal Party’s Mona Fortier.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a summer littered with forest fires, air quality advisories, and heat warnings, climate change has everyone on the hot seat
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa became the first Canadian university to commit to divesting from the fossil fuel industry. But four years later, how is the U of O holding up its promise?
Reading Time: 5 minutes“There needed to be a clear and forceful reaction of the international community,” Packer said in an interview with the Fulcrum. “Unfortunately, what we’ve seen is the opposite.”
Reading Time: 4 minutes“It’s something that maybe they don’t feel like it’s a pressing issue in their lives, but to everyone, it should be,” says U of O student Demetre Kontos.
