Reading Time: 3 minutesLiving in an age where you can read about every crisis happening in the world from your couch is overwhelming, to say the least. But Fulcrum freelancer Kyla Perry argues that critical consumption triumphs over apathy.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesTwo months ago, the Fulcrum published a feature on the appalling conditions of the University’s LeBlanc residence. The University vowed to improve living conditions… but has it?
Reading Time: 6 minutesTo celebrate the Fulcrum’s 80th anniversary, I’ve taken a dive into the archives to highlight some intriguing features over the publication’s history.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe hiring of two racialized counsellors marks a step in the right direction for the U of O’s provision of mental health care, but students maintain that there is much more work to be done.
Reading Time: 9 minutesTwo monuments — one on campus and one just outside — commemorate the contributions of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a religious group instrumental in both the foundation of the U of O and of the residential school system.
Reading Time: 7 minutesCountless universities across the country will be hosting their frosh weeks for incoming students this week, but most will look drastically different than they have in years prior.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
Reading Time: 16 minutesFive students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
Reading Time: 9 minutesWomen’s rights, sexual abuse, LGBTQ+ visibility, racism, chronic illness: the Fulcrum has not strayed away from contentious issues this decade. Read here the best that the decade has had to offer.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe may not have flying cars, but in the age of cult-hit film Blade Runner, experts are already considering the dilemmas of morality presented in Ridley Scott’s masterpiece.
Reading Time: 10 minutesFrom health to academics to social life, university students with chronic illnesses have to prioritize things a little differently. Take a look inside their lives and find out what the university is and isn’t doing to help.
Reading Time: 9 minutes “In the early nineties, we worried about kids passing notes, that was a distraction in class. We were taught how you intercept notes and the protocol on note-passing. We’ve just way surpassed that,” one local high school teacher says.
Reading Time: 11 minutesIs party discipline a necessarily Canadian political institution or is suffocating the democratic process?
Reading Time: 6 minutesVaccinations have been instrumental in keeping the Canadian public safe from highly contagious diseases over the past century. But as more and more people lose faith in immunization, will we see resurgence of age-old ailments?
Reading Time: 3 minutesLeading researchers come together to tackle mental illness head on.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe intersection of poverty and mental illness on campus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial environment is a key influence in chance of developing a mental illness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Peggy Kleinplatz talks about how mental illness could be killing your sex drive.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWith a recent string of drug overdoses in Kanata claiming the lives of teenagers Chloe Kotval and Teslin Russell, the fentanyl crisis is knocking on the door of the nation’s capital.
Reading Time: 7 minutesAre Canadian universities doing their part when it comes to encouraging debate and cultivating ideas?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Is cap and trade really an efficient way to combat climate change, and how will this system affect Ontarians in the long run?
Reading Time: 8 minutes“Exploring one’s sexuality is a vital and important part of growing up and learning about ourselves and our bodies. Any such exploration, however, must be done consensually for all parties involved.”
Reading Time: 8 minutes“The First World War veterans are all gone, the Second World War veterans are in their 90s, so there is a changing face of who the veterans are and who is celebrating Remembrance Day.”
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhile Canada has committed to resettling more Syrian refugees than any other country besides Germany, has it been able to provide them with a true home?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are lots of well-hidden vegetarian-friendly spots around town that will accommodate even the pickiest of eaters.
