Reading Time: 4 minutesOttawa’s leading mayoral candidates clashed over the environmental consequences of the city’s growth at a Sept. 17 debate, with artificial intelligence, data centres, and urban intensification becoming points of contention.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes From rent and transit fares to nightlife and downtown safety, three mayoral candidates addressed questions about the issues facing students in Ottawa.
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is tone deaf to imply that increased defence spending is more important to students than more aggressive investment into affordable housing strategies. Moreover, the expectation that students should be united in celebrating this “generational investment” into defence feels out of touch with students’ reality.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“They keep telling us that it’s urgent and they’re working as fast as possible ..but actions speak a lot louder than words”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Ottawa, most students end up in one of three living situations: an on-campus residence with little to no breathing room, an overpriced student apartment with shiny marketing and paper-thin walls, or a rented room in an old house turned summer sauna.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, University of Ottawa students cast their votes in Ontario’s unprecedented snap election — so what comes next?
Reading Time: 10 minutesAs the student population booms at the University of Ottawa, finding housing is just as difficult as passing exams. Although the university has several on-campus residence options, how does a residence even get built? And are there more resources for students amid Ottawa’s housing crisis?
Reading Time: 6 minutesGive Me Shelter uncovers issues, solutions and more, presenting highly political issues through an artistic lens. This triennial exhibit is not only very relevant to our current situation in Ottawa, but also a real lesson in community mobilization and social activism.
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 minutesThe police station in the Rideau Centre does not solve any of the issues facing downtown citizens, argues Isabella Fiore.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe know that prevention is better than cure. The government should be proactive and do more to solve this problem before it gets even worse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf the university wants to pride itself worthy to attend. It needs to be ready to accommodate demand and protect those who chose to do so.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLevi Cottingham, President of the University of Ottawa Conservatives shares his view on building more housing in and around campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a mafia in Sandy Hill and your landlord is a member.
Reading Time: 5 minutesMany students can relate to the trials and tribulations of moving day and the common grievances of renting: the hunt for cardboard boxes, running to the store for more bubble wrap, squishing the contents of your closet into suitcases and losing your favourite hoodie in the chaos.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVerify matches tenants with local landlords based on their preferences and proven financial budgets for housing.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe portal, which is the primary means of proposing and accepting residence offers for students, claimed that it was ‘overwhelmed’ following the high demand expected from it when it opened last Monday for newly admitted students.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa is severely lacking a 1000-level course on the Sandy Hill housing market.
Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’ll be my first time living away from home on my own. But all of the exciting parts of that are taken away, because I’m worried about if I’ll find a place,” said second-year student Erin Peter.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs classes return to campus, Dalhousie University has limited its residence capacity to 80 per cent this fall, housing around 1,800 students instead of the 2,300 they did prior to the pandemic, according to a statement on the university’s website.
Reading Time: 8 minutes“The current political system does not easily allow for homelessness to be an issue that gains much attention or commitment from elected officials. This is largely disheartening and reflects poorly upon voters and politicians but it also has the upside of partly keeping bad rhetoric out of the discourse,” writes Quinn Sam, a student entering his second year studying political science and economy at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Di, my landlord has offered my roommate and I a discount on rent in exchange for sexual favours. While this is a really strange and uncomfortable situation, we really enjoy the location and quality of our building and don’t want to leave our home. I am worried that by saying no or ignoring the offer, we could be evicted. What should we do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesMany tenants say they cannot afford to pay April’s rent due to lay-offs and other financial challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why the Herongate Tenant Coalition is organizing a rent strike for the month of April.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in the city continue to grow, the University of Ottawa is offering refunds and urging students in residence to move home early to reduce the strain on campus resources.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCity council voted unanimously on Wednesday to declare an affordable housing and homelessness emergency, making Ottawa the first Canadian city to do so. The motion was brought by Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney, who is council’s liaison for housing and homelessness.
