Students from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have asked the provincial government to open up university and college campuses in order to improve students’ mental health and academic performance.
A leaked email from a University of Ottawa professor apologizing for using a racial slur in class was posted on Twitter and has quickly sparked outrage within the University community.
“Before you fling your righteousness across cyberspace, hoping for humble deference to your superior intellect, let us explore a crucial dimension to your online interaction,” writes Eric Dicaire a recent University of Ottawa graduate.
The Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
Zuckerberg’s sample presentation featured fake news stories the Facebook team plans to promote this election cycle, including headlines such as “Trudeau Pressured Wilson-Raybould to Help Maple Syrup Industry” and “Andrew Scheer Literally Ate A Baby”.
“(Looking back at) my first time … (my biggest) regret was not speaking. I thought that all (kinds of) bad things would happen to me—and then the second time that I did it, I found that if you put yourself out there … you’ll get good feedback from it.”
It’s now up to readers to decide if this valuable extension is worth possibly being out of the loop on the latest shitty news of the day.
“With my own research, we’ve gone in and said we can’t just talk about the negative, we have to see what’s the positive, because if there’s nothing good about this, why are people doing it as much as they are? There’s obviously something good about it.”
In this week’s edition of On the Hill, reporter Raghad Khalil took to City Hall to meet with none other than Ottawa’s own Jim Watson.
Today, the number of Bridgehead coffee cups littering the Parliament Hill bus stop is higher than at any time in the last 150 years.”—@RogueLivingWall.
