Canadian musician to open new collaborative space for young Black artists
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Get the most out of what Ottawa has to offer by taking a peek at the new and improved Canadian Museum of Nature, opening Sept. 5
Local restaurants have been forced to adapt to a number of stringent regulations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 as they reopen in stage two of Ontario’s reopening plan. For some though, these regulations seem exaggerated and restrictive as restaurants aren’t allowed to open their inside dining area and are thus dependent on the weather and cannot guarantee shifts to a number of their employees notably servers.
“This march is not a social media moment, this is not another hashtag. We call upon the government to take concrete actions for black voices that demand an end to anti-black racism in Canada, because we matter.” – Sameha Ahmed, organizer, No Justice Until Peace.
This pandemic has made the pre-existing and glaring inequities in our society crystal clear. If this is truly ‘the new normal,’ we ought to make it a good one for everyone.
A group of Ontario university students from Ottawa has created an initiative called Frontline First to help deliver personal protective equipment to frontline workers at multiple Ottawa hospitals. As of Sunday, Frontline First has raised $5,450, a little over halfway to its goal of $10,000, and is asking the U of O community’s help to reach its goal.
Here’s a meme about the LRT to get you over your case of the Mondays!
An Ottawa man is facing a voyeurism charge after he allegedly climbed a balcony and looked into the window of a Sandy Hill apartment near the University of Ottawa on Thursday morning.
The University of Ottawa Students’ Union hosted the annual Black History Month gala on Saturday at the Westin Hotel, marking the first time that the new student union has held the event.
A new study conducted by a student at the University of Ottawa has found a direct link between climate change and declining bumblebee populations — as well as strategies to combat the consequences of both.
Borys Minger always knew he wanted to play basketball at a high level, and he knew that he would have to leave his hometown of Cayenne, French Guiana to do it.
After a tough first quarter where the Gee-Gees struggled to do much of anything against a might York lions team, Brooklynn McAlear-Fanus grabbed the ball and in a matter of minutes changed the game’s momentum.
With a proposed $3.76 billion in spending, the City of Ottawa’s 2020 draft budget looks to improve the city’s troubled transit system by putting $7.5 million toward increasing service reliability while reducing wait times. An additional $15 million has been set aside to build more affordable housing units.
Day 1 of the women’s rugby 2019 USports National Championships consisted of four exciting quarterfinal matchups. The winners of these games will look to keep their momentum going as they head to the semi-finals, with hopes of earning the national championship title on Sunday.
The Gee-Gees rugby team won their sixth straight RSEQ championship upsetting the No. 1 nationally-ranked Laval University Rouge et Or. However, the goal for the rugby team remains to win the national championship on home turf this weekend.
“It’s something that maybe they don’t feel like it’s a pressing issue in their lives, but to everyone, it should be,” says U of O student Demetre Kontos.
The U of O baseball club had a tough weekend in their first-ever OUA championship in Ajax. The team lost all three of their games to put an end to their inaugural season in the OUA, in which the team won only three regular-season games. In spite of this, a promising core of young players brings a light of hope for years to come
The Gee-Gees football team closed out a two-game road trip in Guelph on Saturday afternoon. Coming off a blowout win against York last week, the boys in Grey and Garnet hoped they could keep their momentum going with Panda Game less than a week away.
Thousands of people took to the streets of the downtown core on Friday, marching on Parliament Hill to push elected officials to implement concrete measures to address the climate crisis.
When James Flemming joined his high school’s football team in Grade 9, little did he know that his first impressions of the team would lead him on a path to being one of the U of O most recognised rugby players. Flemming discusses the path that led him from a Belleville locker room to Matt Anthony Field.
Plant’s new style of music is hard to pin down. The easiest descriptor is world music. For Led Zeppelin fans, it’s a totally different type of music, but it’s apparent the seeds of Plant’s new output were there back in his old days, too.
For a whole three quarters all the Gee-Gees were able to muster up in their matchup with the Laurier Golden Hawks was a single field goal. But down 22-3 in the fourth quarter, Jamie Barresi and the troops took advantage of several Laurier mistakes to crawl back and win the game.
Here’s our opinion on some Gee-Gee’s favourite pump-up songs. What are yours?
The first day of City Folk was heavy on rough-and-tumble outlaw country, harmonious folk, and edgy “hard roots” music. And the Strumbellas who, despite being headliners, were the odd ones out.
Organizers expected more than 65,000 attendees on the eve of the parade.
