Reading Time: 3 minutesWith allegations, investigations, and a general bad vibe piling up around X, it begs the question; why are reputable institutions of higher education like uOttawa are still actively engaging with X at all?
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy has watching sports and gambling ads become a homogenous experience?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough they aren’t exceptional works of television or the highest form of comedy, they have a spot in our everyday lives.
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow willing are you to fragment yourself from the popular, comforting, and blissfully ignorant notion that Canadian history is untainted?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt sounds to me an awful lot like a $1 beer platform — policy change that benefits a privileged population while an underprivileged one is periodically neglected.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the University of Ottawa, registering for a gym session creates the same adrenaline as buying concert tickets, but instead of getting to see Harry Styles live on tour, I get to exercise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou shouldn’t need a specific day, or two in Ottawa’s case, to show your love.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo many Canadians simply have to decide between a paycheck and taking time to recuperate when they are sick.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fact of the matter is that people are born to be whatever sexuality they are, and nothing can change that — not even the media they consume at a young age.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“In seventeen years of teaching at the University of Ottawa, I have found that a majority of students are optimistic … This year, students were unanimous in their despair. Climate inaction was on their mind … Students could not come up with any solution that they believed would get us off our disastrous track,” writes professor Thomas Boogaart of the University of Ottawa’s department of history.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA viral Instagram sticker that claimed one tree would be planted for every share was used over four million times before the creator of the sticker admitted its promise was false.
Reading Time: 2 minutes If I want to pull my Christmas playlist out or start putting peppermint oil in my diffuser, I should be able to without people whining about how it’s only November.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCostumes don’t have an expiry date, so why are we throwing them out?
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo lose the campus walk-in, is to lose the one place on campus where students in crisis could go for immediate support — no online forms, phone intakes, or months of waiting.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe same people who said my name sounded like a taco and made Islamophobic comments back in middle school are now posting infographics—how ironic.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“The reason in question is that if all parties in a discussion have the freedom to speak their ideas without punishment, this prevents proponents of reprehensible ideas from becoming martyrs,” writes Quinn Sam, a second-year political science and economy student.
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: 3 minutesIf the U of O is truthful in its commitment to supporting and uplifting its most vulnerable students, the university must, at the very least, expand its financial support to better include part-time students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou are not part of a certain select group for liking a band — liking or not liking a band does not make you better than anyone else.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a time of such broad societal change, there is one specific evolution that will impact virtually every element of our society in a positive way: a massive cultural and societal shift towards working from home.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“There is still plenty of work to be done to support and uplift BIPOC in film and television. Simply putting us on television is not enough, and will not eradicate the inadequacies of the entertainment sector.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“With the pandemic dragging on, artists and promoters will need to find a better way to deliver live music because paying $17.50 for an experience that I can pretty much get for free on YouTube is not enticing in the least,” writes Charley Dutil, the Fulcrum’s editor-in-chief.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough there are a handful of reasons to stay on campus, it seems the U of O campus will be significantly quieter this winter.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnline classes have been hard for students and staff alike, but the lack of effort from professors makes remote learning incredibly difficult for students.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAstrological writings make our personalities seem enchanting and special. These personality descriptions tell the story of a person who we admire. We are no longer weepy persons who struggle through misfortunes. Instead, we are ‘astral beings’, who live beautiful lives that are threatened with challenges that we are destined to overcome.
