Reading Time: 3 minutesU of O, according to full-time Professor Geoffrey Greatrex, has harmed its image, establishing itself “as one of [those] institutions that’s willing to take the axe to fundamental arts disciplines.”
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Reading Time: 3 minutesBill 33 passed, and student life from 101 week, campus clubs, the student union, the Fulcrum, and so much more are now at risk. But it’s not over; the University has a decision to make. Will U of O side with students or with Doug Ford’s government?
Reading Time: < 1 minute“The potential losses of these funding streams may seem like a small administrative change, but is in fact a direct attack on services students rely on every day,” per UOSU president Jack Coen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesErica Englert argues that Doug Fords Bill 33 will harm students, by removing vital services they need.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe notion that removing bike lanes will reduce traffic congestion is flawed, writes Sydney Grenier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCity of Ottawa plans to improve transportation by thinking a bit too far outside of the box.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing the success of the Ontario government’s introduction of alcohol to convenience stores in the province, Premier Doug Ford has announced they will also be able to sell cannabis starting in April.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf universities are expected to pay for services, the money has to come from somewhere – a reality that our government continues to ignore.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe can’t give up the fight, they will try to erase us from history, but they’ve been trying for thousands of years and we are still here.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you sick and without a family doctor? Or just sick with Ontario’s healthcare system inability to provide proper care?
Reading Time: 2 minutesDoug Ford is now drowning in low approval ratings so he decides to become a copycat of Meatball Ron!
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn June I attended a counter-protest to an “anti-woke protest” right here in Ottawa. On Sunday I attended Capital Pride; here’s what I think.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt sounds to me an awful lot like a $1 beer platform — policy change that benefits a privileged population while an underprivileged one is periodically neglected.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough Justice Grant Huscroft clearly showed that the provincial government contravened the “University Acts” by infringing on universities’ autonomy with the SCI, is this really the final nail in the coffin for the policy, or will the government be stubborn and drag taxpayers in an even longer battle with Ontario’s university students?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis policy is something that does not benefit students, as we saw in 2019. It leaves student services across campus anxious and creates more uncertainty leading up to the fall 2021 semester after the hell that was the 2020-21 academic year.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre imposed curfews necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19? The Fulcrum takes a look at both sides of the argument.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOntario universities have started their winter 2021 semesters under a province-wide stay at home order. But while this is not the first semester impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown measures are complicating an already difficult situation for students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe provincial government is looking to appeal last month’s Divisional Court of Ontario ruling striking down the Student Choice Initiative and deeming it unlawful, according to the Globe and Mail.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The people who are here are missing class to stand up for those who can’t come to class at all this semester,” said organizer and student Tim Gulliver.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrowing up in a single-parent household opened me up to some of the hardships I would have to endure later in life. But I didn’t fully realize just how independent I would have to be in university until my mother sat me down and told me she wouldn’t be able to financially support me at …
Reading Time: 4 minutesMelissa Lyons, a graduate from the U of O’s teachers’ college and now a local teacher, pens an open letter to Premier Doug Ford in light of recent announcements of cuts to education.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fulcrum is hoping its high praises result in an OSAP amount constituted of mostly grants — like many students, the Fulcrum has no idea how to repay the government loans.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPost-secondary students across the province held a walkout today, leaving their classes and staging rallies to protest recent changes to education policy by the provincial government.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCommunications director of the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Stephanie Rea, confirmed, “fees that support programs and services that promote on-campus safety, including the prevention of sexual violence, are an allowable compulsory ancillary fee under the Student Choice Initiative.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Tuesday the Ontario government announced they would double their 2018-19 investment in a fund for programs combating sexual violence on campuses, and released a series of new requirements for post-secondary institutions alongside their summary report of the 2018 Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey.
