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.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesPoliticians need to care about youth priorities and youth need to care about politics.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve seen them and you’ve felt their presence before. The slow strides, unbothered charisma, and sloth-like movements.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe return of in-person exams has many students stressed. But this doesn’t need to be the case! Returning to in-person does has perks.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve been at the Fulcrum for four years now, half of those as its editor-in-chief — it’s time for me to move on. However, before I do, I think it is worth reflecting on my five long years in student journalism. Apologies in advance, as this may get a little sappy.
Reading Time: 8 minutesFrom sleeping on the floor at his first NASH to EIC, it’s fair to say it’s been a wild ride for Charley at the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’m not exactly sure what goes through someone’s mind that would compel them to hit another person. I mean, sure, have been times when my sister and I have wanted to punch each other in the face? Yes.
But have we ever actually done it? Obviously not.
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: 3 minutesA pandemic-era solution has inadvertently presented the University with a golden opportunity to reduce food waste from its dining hall
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou never know when a friend could become a foe this April Fools’ Day.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCritical understaffing and high risk are burning out frontline workers on every side. These are the people eclipsed by our new reality. Why do we actively choose to martyrize frontline workers rather than provide them true relief? We resign these people to their fates as if it’s out of our hands.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIs it fair to expect fellow minimum wage workers to fork up more money than their bills require simply because employers are not willing to pay their employees a liveable wage?
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf there’s one constant at every University of Ottawa party, it’s that there’s always gonna be one Carleton student who really wants you to know that they don’t go to “OttawaU”.
Reading Time: 3 minutes What I considered attending class ranged from sitting at my desk with my camera on and participating extensively in class discussions, to opening my computer, logging on to my 8:30 a.m. class with my camera off, then going back to sleep.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFixating on recycling instead of reducing and reusing incentives is a wasteful production scheme.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTurns out, aging rears its salt-and-peppered head in intangible ways sooner than it does in imperfections of the skin.
Reading Time: 8 minutesFor the game to be worth playing, watching, and supporting, it must first be fair. It must, thus, prioritize equity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFinding work for the summer is usually a cause of stress for university students of all programs. However, international students at U of O (and other Canadian universities) have it even harder.
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou claim you’re ‘fighting for our freedoms’, and yet, you’re verbally attacking those who disagree with your opinions.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhether your roommates are your friends, strangers, or even family members, living with another person is always going to result in compromise and (hopefully) mutual respect… or is it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Scholars must remain vigilant whenever academic freedom collides with diversity. The former can be compromised by EDI activists, who in turn will only be pacified once their demands to censor ‘offensive’ remarks or ‘dangerous’ ideas are met by university administrators,” writes University of Ottawa school of sociological and anthropological studies professor Stuart Chambers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristmas season advertisements — they see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe waiting game is no fun Point: The frustrations with slow texters by Mariam Fawaz Are you really busy, or do you just simply not feel like texting back? Both are valid excuses — being unable to communicate your situation is where it gets frustrating. A quick “I’m busy” or “TTYL” will suffice. I don’t …
Reading Time: 7 minutes I am somehow able to detail my depressive episodes and panic attacks in semi-comedic writing for anyone and everyone to see without any semblance of hesitation. However, put me face to face with my best friend of ten years and, suddenly, I’m shy.
Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re still reaching for a glass of milk right from the cow’s teat, I have a myriad of follow-up questions. Most importantly: why?
