Reading Time: 6 minutes“The Committee is therefore against the exclusion of words, works or ideas in the context of respectful academic presentations and discussions whose educational goal is to promote the dissemination of knowledge,” wrote the Committee on Academic Freedom in its report.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe challenges and opportunities presented by the task of converting commercial spaces to residential ones.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“You are at the heart of student life” — El Himri reflects on her role as clubs and services commissioner of UOSU and speaks to what her predecessor should know.
Reading Time: 9 minutes“We’re leading consultations with the student body and with different stakeholders and will relay those comments to HRO. And I would be surprised that this was the last UOSU has to say on this file, given the nature of the document that was presented,” said UOSU president Tim Gulliver.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Heart Institute released false data which was quickly picked up by vaccine hesitant groups to validate false beliefs that the COVID-19 vaccines are highly deadly.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast month, the University of Ottawa made it mandatory for incoming students, faculty, and staff members to certify their vaccination status using the COVID-19 Vaccination Declaration online tool, whether they intend to come to campus or not.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents have not been able to access any public documents pertaining to the UOSU’s 2021-22 Board of Directors (BOD). This includes meeting minutes, subcommittee minutes and Executive Committee members’ reports which were public in the Union’s first two years of existence on its Google Drive. Why?
Reading Time: 3 minutes“What I actually found on Russell Ave was closer to a small riot,” said first-year student Greg Coleman.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ottawa Police Service (OPS) have identified all ten individuals shown in photos from the night of the Panda Game on Oct. 2. New photos have been released identifying more individuals of interest in the investigation.
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I received the news that I received a job offer as a TA and my god was I happy … I am about to cross a new bridge to a new life that I am excited about. Sad and scared for sure, but relieved. Relieved I am leaving the Union in the most amazing hands,” El Himri wrote in an email explaining the reason for her resignation.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There are systemic issues to what these students face. So now is the time to address that,” said Sana Almansour, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union interim equity commissioner.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn theory, professors are supposed to plan and adapt their courses to make sure students who are in both learning spheres get the same level of attention and education. Nevertheless, this has not always been the case and the university has taken its fair share of flak from both students and professors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCOVID-19 safety measures have been implemented during the move-in process and in residences.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEgerton Ryerson, the school’s namesake, was one of the architects of the residential school system.
Reading Time: 8 minutesNour El Huda, the University of Ottawa’s Students’ Union’s (UOSU) former operations commissioner, detailed allegations of acts contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code as well as general poor corporate governance by UOSU’s 2020-21 Executive Committee in her letter of resignation back in November 2020.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Membership has been focused on faculty members since the issues to be looked at have direct impacts on the work being conducted by our professors and researchers,” wrote U of O manager of media relations, Isabelle Mailloux-Pulkinghorn in an email to the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“They’ve known about the virtual format since we first registered for graduation months ago. There’s no reason they couldn’t have let us know sooner what was going on,” said Rachel Van Lanen, an imminent graduate of the U of O’s theatre program.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the 2020 U.S. presidential election still undecided more than 40 hours after the end of polling in most states, the Fulcrum decided to look back this week on the 2011 SFUO election that took more than a night to determine all the winning candidates.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe University of Ottawa is predicting significantly large deficits that will impact students and staff alike in its updated 2020-21 projected budget. The budget takes into account the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on enrolment and how it will lead to huge financial losses for the U of O in the 2020-21 academic year.
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn a year riddled with crises, the attention of university administrations is understandably divided. But as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wracked the student population with isolation and grief, it’s now more important than ever that the university’s efforts to address the mental health crisis are not lost.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $9 billion in financial support for post-secondary students and recent graduates on Wednesday after thousands across the country said gaps in existing COVID-19 emergency measures meant they were slipping through the cracks.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents taking classes at the U of O during the upcoming online spring/summer semesters will be met with a number of changes to fees and services due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The U-Pass is suspended for the term, while fees for Sports Services and the University Centre are waived.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has temporarily expanded the Canada Summer Jobs Program to employ up to 70,000 more people, but some post-secondary students say that the measure doesn’t go far enough and are continuing to call on the federal government to better support them through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThousands across the country are calling on the federal government to expand eligibility for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit after many post-secondary students and recent graduates said the COVID-19 pandemic relief fund leaves them behind.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs hospitals brace for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients and concerns around a shortage of personal protective equipment grow, University of Ottawa engineers are pumping out plastic face shields for frontline health-care workers at the Richard L’Abbé Makerspace lab on campus.
