Some consensual fun I had with friends is being compared to the sexual violence committed by Donald Trump, all because La Rotonde believes it has a right to report on the sexual activities of its students, and not real issues that they face.
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Protests are an inherent part of social change and activism. Women’s right to vote, the civil rights movement, and many other important social movements throughout history could not have progressed and amassed the support necessary for things to change without the power of peaceful dissent.
In case you haven’t heard the news, most cases of campus sexual harassment are committed by university professors. At least, this is the allegation levelled by Angelina Chapin in her Ottawa Citizen op-ed titled “Universities need to focus on harassment, not just on sex assault.”
Recently, the federal government announced that it will regulate e-cigarettes within the coming year. While regulation is an important step, it must be done properly.
Not only is recognizing Ottawa as an officially bilingual city a nod to our French and English heritage, but officially embracing both languages is a symbolic gesture that would come at no additional costs to taxpayers and would not affect jobs.
In the end, there just isn’t enough reason to support large increases in the minimum wage. Should there be a minimum wage? Yes. A reasonably high minimum wage? Also yes. But $15 an hour? No.
The thing is, the Ontario government already recognizes that 16-year-olds can understand the issues and can form independent judgments on them. After all, civics class is taught in grade 10, not in grade 12, for a reason.
Instituting mandatory Indigenous history classes would help ensure students are prepared to make equitable decisions as they start the next chapter of their lives.
Normally these segments are designed to serve as harmless comedic fodder, but most of the time they come across as being condescending and mean-spirited.
Clubs are an integral part of the university experience, and this is why the SFUO cannot settle for poorly managed clubs going forward.
With obesity rates continuing to rise in Britain, more people than ever will be affected by these new restrictions.
Large-scale lobbying by private organizations, whether they are collecting profit or not, can have a harmful influence on democratic discourse, and eventually debilitating effects on governance.
In the Great White North, most people’s gut reaction to the idea of health care reform is to not mess with the storied system that Tommy Douglas gave us. However, this argument fails to take into account the fact that a two-tier system already exists in Canada.
If a judge allows police to search the phone of someone indirectly involved in a crime they may end up finding evidence of a completely different offence, even if that person was never arrested or even a suspect in that first crime.
The most coveted spot in class isn’t a seat next to that cutie you’re trying to get a number from, but the seat by the outlets. Trust me, all available plugs usually get taken before the prof has a chance to walk into the lecture hall.
With more information accumulating in the online world every day, and a seemingly constant state of debt for many students, some question what exactly universities provide that isn’t readily available for free on our laptops and smartphones.
The crew has now also stumbled upon old Gee-Gees and Raven‘s mascots fighting, the scene beautifully preserved in amber.
One thing computers are not commonly supposed to do better than us is love or feel emotions. This is supposed to be a special human trait. But is it really?
Are You Still Watching? turns the camera onto viewers Photo: Alamy, Creative Commons Netflix’s latest hit series asks its audience Are You Still Watching? and so far the answer has been a resounding yes. The show consists of a blank screen, silence, and a passive aggressive pop-up message that won’t go away–and yet is so …
We have become entirely too preoccupied with exploiting the weaknesses and fallibilities of others—attacking them like rabid pack animals for the sake of entertainment or personal gain.
In the future, a more streamlined approach to handling government-funded investments would result in the right aid being distributed at the right time.
Like it or not, Canada is not immune to the rise of Islamophobia that is plaguing Western society.
Because the way nudity is depicted now—as a rigid divide between the genders—is only enforcing regressive ideologies within our culture.
It’s time to admit that general assemblies at the University of Ottawa have been a failed experiment.
I don’t have anything against writing a final exam—obviously I need to prove that I learned something over the course of four months—but I have a huge problem with the way people act at the end of the semester.
