Reading Time: 4 minutesUniversity of Ottawa professor David Wiseman’s Access to Justice and Alternative Business Structures Project is continuing its fight to protect a small number of tenants facing N13 renovation eviction notices in units sprawling from 146 to 170 Osgoode Avenue in Sandy Hill.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Whenever I was struggling with the thought of wanting to hurt myself, or wanting to go out and drink, I would bead until I didn’t feel that way anymore,” said Cassidy Copenace, a 21 year-old living in Naotkamegwanning First Nation. “Even if I was beading all night, and if I was tired, I would just keep going until I was either super tired, or I just didn’t feel the way I did before I started doing my beadwork.”
Reading Time: 8 minutes“It was very emotional for me as I had never before heard so much appreciation for non-Indigenous presence,” said Polish retiree Feliks Welfeld.
Reading Time: 5 minutesCaroline Cox of the Shepherds of Good Hope knew in March when the pandemic hit, they would be in trouble, not just for the number of already-vulnerable persons they help but in losing their dedicated senior volunteers leaving for their health and safety. However, their downtown Ottawa location has had an unexpected uptick in the number of student volunteers.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“We don’t know much about the mental health of our workforce in this country. The more this crisis goes on, the more these issues will be compounded,” said Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, a U of O professor and holder of the University’s research chair in gender, diversity and the professions.
Reading Time: 4 minutesLocal paddlers Anika Smithson,Monika Szyptko along with Burlington’s Danika Guppy can finally get rid of their sea legs after completing their week-long kayak of the Rideau Canal, ending at Ottawa’s Hartwell Locks with a shoreline cleanup last Saturday Oct 5.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“I think always being honest and always being open to whatever people have to tell me and being honest about synthesizing that information and bringing it forward. I don’t have a whip, I don’t have much power, but I do have people listening to me,” says Elizabeth Kristjansson, the University of Ottawa’s new advisor on mental health and wellness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man who broke into a Daly Avenue apartment has been charged with arson this morning.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn lieu of Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30, here is a list of local events and content the University of Ottawa community can participate in.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEchoing throughout the remnant stained glass of the former Sandy Hill All Saints Anglican Church on Sept. 17 was an emotional celebration of the first-ever diploma graduating class of the Inuit Community Support Worker and Management Trainee Program.
Reading Time: 5 minutes‘Renoviction’ and gentrification business strategies have raised concerns in a Sandy Hill mass eviction slated for the end of October. University of Ottawa law professors and their students are using their lab to help support tenants.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Thursday the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) announced that it is partnering with Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University College of Indigenous Studies (NDHU-CIS).
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘I’m literally holding people’s hands while they die because their family members can’t be there and I’m burying bodies, but you’re going to party with your friends and you’re the reason why these people are dying. That was really, really tough for me.’ says Alexis Snell a fourth-year nursing student
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn the first official day back to school, Myriem Sahouli tweeted her concern and frustration to @uOttawa an @uOCampus that she has been trying to book an appointment with the University of Ottawa’s Health Services (UOHS) for weeks and all she receives is a busy signal.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile most students and professors are returning back to school virtually or on campus, the University of Ottawa is welcoming passer-bys with a new welcome sign featuring various Indigenous languages.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIncoming first-year University of Ottawa students have created two Instagram account for students to share and expose campus discrimination. They’ve called these accounts @UntolduOttawa and @BlackatuOttawa.
