Starting her on ice career in the small Ontario town of Ayr, Katherine Birkby is now playing her third season in the garnet and gray.
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Outdoor rinks are a great way to exercise, socialize, and get outside while social distancing. Here are some of the best outdoor rinks for U of O students.
The University of Ottawa is severely lacking a 1000-level course on the Sandy Hill housing market.
A full return to campus life has been delayed until Jan. 31. It is possible it could be further delayed.
“I’m also just immensely frustrated with the pandemic for taking away another part of what I envisioned as my ideal twenties,” wrote fourth-year student Avia Amon.
Following the release of part one back in April 2021, there were many more professors that were commended and praised by students — this piece highlights their great work.
Mental health is something that affects everyone. For men in sports, there are barriers surrounding the subject.
“If people want to be happy, they’ll need to have good relationships in the real world as well,” said U of O professor Wonsook Lee
As the year comes to an end, we decided to look back on significant stories the Fulcrum published in 2021. Instead of simply republishing the stories, we thought we’d do something different and offer readers a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the year’s biggest stories came to be.
“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.
Many undergraduate students possess a voracious need to learn. They devour books, sit on the edge of our seats during interesting lectures — and have a need to channel this need into research. But how?
Graduation marks the end of a chapter in a person’s life. With this chapter over, many graduates are eagerly anticipating the next one, because, unlike textbooks, we cannot flip through the pages of life to see how long the next one will be.
“We remain hopeful that the defendants will now engage us in meaningful settlement discussions,” said Sean Brown, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs and a senior partner at Flaherty McCarthy LLP, to the Fulcrum.
“It’ll be my first time living away from home on my own. But all of the exciting parts of that are taken away, because I’m worried about if I’ll find a place,” said second-year student Erin Peter.
“The University is still planning for an increased level of activities on campus coming January 2022, including a return of the vast majority of administrative and support staff,” says the University of Ottawa.
The U of O president’s report to the Senate did not provide the same updates in both languages when it came to the University’s reception of the academic freedom report. The updates in French were much more extensive, and the message very different — these updates should have been the same in both languages to not keep unilingual members of the U of O community in the dark.
A first step in an extensive process of bilingual revitalization, francophone affairs commissioner Lia Bosquet believes that outlining language rights in the syllabus will increase accessibility to all classes on campus.
Mallon discusses what to expect at a dig, dino myths and why dinos were so big Jordan Mallon is a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature here in Ottawa. He mainly studies horned dinosaur evolution and dinosaur paleoecology which is the study of past ecology. This week Mallon interviewed with the Fulcrum to …
Email to U of O community from the office of the registrar says the university is “on track to meet the goal, expressed by many, of returning to a campus.”
The ICUO met to discuss issues with bimodal learning and pitch changes and accommodations that might alleviate issues.
The U of O required the plaintiffs’ counsel to withdraw their request to have notification posted on the University webpage and amend several common issues as conditions for their consent to the certification of the lawsuit.
Commentary: In the wake of the University of Toronto’s divestment announcement, a precedent has been set in this province by its biggest university. Will the U of O finally follow suit?
Gee-Gees will play Queen’s in the semis The University of Ottawa’s football team avenged its season-opening loss to the University of Toronto Saturday, eliminating the Varsity Blues 37-17 in their first-round playoff matchup in the six. The Gees were able to get themselves on the board first with kicker Campbell Fair ending a seven-play drive …
Students can now receive their flu shots at Minto Sports Complex from November through December.
The co-presidents of HanVoice’s University of Ottawa chapter, Jinee Lee and Matthew Min, sat down with the Fulcrum to discuss how the pilot project will steer the club’s work in the coming months.
