“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.
Jim Watson
On the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, hundreds attended the U of O’s vigil outside of the STEM Complex on Friday. The school was one of 14 in the country to shine a beam of light into the sky to remember the 14 victims, whose names were projected onto the exterior of the building.
“I also want to reassure residents that these LRT issues are being taken extremely seriously. Finding solutions to these problems continues to be the number one priority at City Hall,” said Mayor Jim Watson in a press release.
The 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).
The drivers were given OC Transpo swag, including a parka and thermos, which Watson explained: “(were) used to hold hot drinks, like green tea or hot kombucha.”
So while some might pass campus politics off as trivial, it is important to keep an eye on student executives. You never know—they might one day take up other public office.
The unveiling served as an opportunity for U of O professors in both the science and engineering faculties to speak on key topics in their fields, including green manufacturing, fluid mechanics, nanofabrication of devices, energy conservation at the nanoscale, and reducing the environmental footprint of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Tuesday’s event raised $15,098 in donations from the public, which Knoll says will go towards funding nutrition work in southern Africa, including training to help women take charge of health efforts in their communities.
In other words, safe injection sites may save lives, but not the ones we care about. As a result, no matter how much evidence is presented on the benefits of safe injection sites to drug users’ health or longevity, none can convince these opponents that such facilities are desirable.
To begin the process, City officials are removing all 2017-18 calendars from stores, and will be releasing a new and improved version of the Canada 150 advertising campaign in a few months. As part of the festivities, all businesses and residents will also be required to travel 365 days into the past.
In this week’s edition of On the Hill, reporter Raghad Khalil took to City Hall to meet with none other than Ottawa’s own Jim Watson.
Six years ago, Actions for Healthcare, a student-run non-profit organization, started up at the University of Ottawa with the purpose of raising money for healthcare-related charities such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
On Sept. 8, young entrepreneurs from across the city, including many University of Ottawa students and alumni, joined members of the community at city hall to pitch their business models as part of the seventh annual Startup Garage Rally.
One has to wonder if Pokémon GO will be just another trending topic over social media or if it will have a potentially long-term impact?
A 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.
It took hours for the City to respond to fallen leaf Photo: Kim Wiens A young leaf’s death in the Ottawa neighbourhood of Sandy Hill in the early morning of July 20 has had a deep uniting effect on the community’s residents. The tragedy, and its aftermath has been compared to the Toronto community’s response …
Ernest Côté, a World War Two veteran who helped plan the Normandy landing, has died at age 101.
Recently, Sanrio, the company that manufactures Hello Kitty products, asserted that Hello Kitty is in fact a little girl, not a cat. This announcement has led to a wider discussion about the significance of Hello Kitty in our pop culture zeitgeist.
SFUO president Anne-Marie Roy had a Twitter conversation with Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, who is running for re-election in the upcoming Oct. 27 mayoral elections. Roy expressed her disappointment that student issues were not adequately discussed at mayoral debates, to which Watson responded by saying it was not his fault the SFUO did not organize a debate on campus, but that he did debate at Carleton University.
The 2014 municipal election ballot will list eight names—a much smaller ballot than in 2010, when 20 candidates were vying for the post of Mayor of Ottawa.
The Ottawa municipal election candidates met for a public debate on Sept. 23. Here is a live-tweet play-by-play of what was said.
City council rejected a proposal by developer Viner Assets to build a 180-unit student residence in Sandy Hill at the intersection of Laurier Avenue and Friel Street in a 14–9 vote on March 26.
The University of Ottawa Graduate Students’ Association (GSAÉD) and the Carleton University Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) have joined together to lobby City Hall to bring a safe injection site to Ottawa.
At least six people were killed and more than 30 injured after an OC Transpo double-decker bus hit a VIA Rail train in Ottawa on Sept. 18.
In his first year at Carleton University, Watson was sad and anxious when his parents dropped him off, but he was also excited to be on his own
