Reading Time: 2 minutesSFUO executive member Brad Lafortune handed in his resignation Sept. 23 to pursue a master’s program in physiotherapy.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has ranked the University of Ottawa among the worst in Canada in terms of freedom of expression.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPhotos courtesy of Mike Langlais (CUP) Schools from coast to coast can learn a thing or two about frosh from the University of Ottawa. About 200 students and professors gathered at Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax, N.S. on Sept. 12 to rally against sexual violence in the wake of an offensive chant that …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Civil Liberties Association is asking the University of Ottawa to stop funding a private defamation lawsuit filed by professor Joanne St. Lewis against former professor Denis Rancourt.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCafé Nostalgica reopened its doors Aug. 17, and even in its newness it was strangely familiar.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA geography professor at the University of Ottawa was acquitted Aug. 21 of threatening to kill the head of his department during “venting sessions” with colleagues in the summer of 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O president aims to create ‘unmatched’ bilingual resource to contribute to public policy Photo by Mico Mazza CANADA WILL SEE its first school of government at the University of Ottawa as early as 2015, according to plans led by university president Allan Rock. The new school will aim to create a “national, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesReport calls program ‘deeply troubled,’ university halts admission of new students Photo by Adam Feibel The University of Ottawa has suspended admission of new students to its journalism program for the upcoming academic year. A university committee decided to suspend admission to the program at the earliest opportunity after an internal report to the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents can breathe easier now that the potential professors’ strike at the University of Ottawa has been avoided.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn increasing number of undergraduate students at the U of O has led to plans for a new 165-bed, $12-million residence that could be converted to condominiums in the future. The project, dubbed the “Henderson Residence,” is to be located at 206 Henderson Ave. and plans indicate that it will be a “suite-style residence” with …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa is the 14th most sustainable university in the world. Check out how RecycleMania is helping to keep us there
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Facebook page set up to promote the Peer Help Centre and Centre for Students with Disabilities’ (CSD) “Let’s Talk About Mental Health” conference from March 9–10 caused controversy after the location of the event was listed as being on “unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin territory” at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore she left on an academic exchange, Shubha Nijihawan wanted to get vaccinated; what she got was a headache.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents with ADD/ADHD will now have the chance to receive financial assistance as well as time-management mentoring while attending post-secondary institutions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe average university student might believe that their degree will give them an advantage over their competition upon entering the working world. This was true at one point, but in many fields today, a university degree is no longer the advantage; it’s the requirement.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTake one glance at the Gothic architecture of Parliament Hill and it may seem like you have time-travelled back to 1867. The way in which the government conducts business—along with some “elder” members of Parliament (MPs)—may further convince you that this institution is a relic of the past.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) has set up a depression research centre to help alleviate the challenges faced by health-care practitioners while maintaining an emphasis on total care
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInvestigators are looking into a possible arson in the Arts building at U of O after a burning bookshelf was discovered in a stairwell over reading week
Reading Time: 2 minutesThree of U of O’s own receive recognition for exceptional work in their fields
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanadian Guide Dogs for the Blind (CGDB) is reaching out to the University of Ottawa in search of students willing to temporarily open their homes to a puppy who will be trained to become a guide dog.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudent’s U-Pass concern finally resolved, SFUO issues refund Jane Lytvynenko | Fulcrum Staff Five months after submitting a request to refund her U-Pass fee, Julie Corrigan, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, got her cheque in the mail. Corrigan, who went abroad to do research, exchanged 33 emails and many phone calls with …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fulcrum is here to set the record straight about some commonly told post-secondary myths.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHERE WE ARE, the third, fourth, and fifth years of the University of Ottawa community, at the end of the road. About to walk away from this school, some students are ready to hit the road running. Some, though, are going to miss this place. This time last year, I stared longingly at those who …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIT HAS BEEN over a year since the sale of bottled water at the University of Ottawa was banned entirely. For some, the once-controversial ban was a step toward a more sustainable campus, a smaller ecological footprint, more access to public water fountains, and less money spent on something that is virtually free. For others, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSOCIAL CLIMBING, AN obsession with the upper class, and commentaries about pompous aristocrats are all topics in the satire Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Written by Molière and composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 17th-century France, the play is now coming to the University of Ottawa campus, as a translation and adaptation under the name Mamamouchi, on March …
