Reading Time: 3 minutesYou don’t need to swim like a fish, but it helps to get hooked like one!
University of Ottawa
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo while some might pass campus politics off as trivial, it is important to keep an eye on student executives. You never know—they might one day take up other public office.
Reading Time: 6 minutesA forensic report from PwC says the fraud allegations levelled against three SFUO executives were not factual.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe curriculum change is the reason Evans decided to run for school trustee after losing as Ottawa-Vanier’s NDP candidate in the provincial election.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow, the Tomato has become aware of what can only be considered the next logical step in both the utter democratic degeneration and persistently amusing decision-making of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) and its handful of (former) executives.
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe Fulcrum teamed up with the Ubyssey, the Gauntlet and the Charlatan to investigate how Canadian universities are dealing with the legalization of cannabis on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis came in response to fraud allegations, and allegations of financial misconduct faced by at least three individuals on the SFUO executive, and for many students, felt long overdue. For others however, concerns of administrative interference in student governance raised red flags, and some students feel as though their voices are being stifled. We’re here to tell you that this is not the case.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe administration has a lot of questions to answer in the coming months and negotiations will be intense, but this needs to be readdressed with a proper overhaul of the SFUO. With only two executives currently serving, students need to come together to make sure that the SFUO does what it can to regain the trust of students at the U of O.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Board of Governors met on Sept. 24 to discuss the past year’s budget, this year’s budget, the future of Brooks residence, Ontario’s free speech policy, and cannabis legislation on campus. At the end, the board went in camera to discuss the SFUO.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a statement released on Sept. 25, the University of Ottawa announced that they have given the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) official notice of termination of the contract held between the SFUO and the university administration.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the potential of being one of the biggest “sports” categories on earth due to its wide appeal and its international audience, ESports have risen from online player communities to events sponsored by corporations in the same way extreme sports gained traction in the early 2000s.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a document recently obtained by the Fulcrum, the University of Ottawa administration has said that they expect the resignation of all SFUO members involved in the recent fraud allegations until the completion of a forensic audit.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReturning students at the University of Ottawa have a misguided and dangerously optimistic understanding of just how easy their second year will be.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s easy to tell who’s not in the know. They’re huddled together in large packs, attempting to stave off the cold, inappropriately dressed for the cold weather. They claim their moms were going to buy them a Canada Goose coat over Thanksgiving. It’s the first years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf professors want to look at practical and simple ways to improve student life, they should not just know the basics of Brightspace. They need to examine what benefits students the most on multiple levels—especially financially and mentally.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow if you are one of the young, innocent, university virgins, then listen up. Cause I am about to offer some advice from someone who may have made a few mistakes… correction: A LOT of mistakes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of a handful of measures enacted by the Saudi government is the order moving all students studying in Canada on government-funded scholarships out of the country.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust like a country, a student union that neglects its history becomes short-sighted and ineffective.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sunday, there was an opportunity for members of the BOA, on behalf of the students they represent, to stand up and do the right thing. What happened? BOA members failed to protect students and fight for us at the table, leaving myself and many others feeling frustrated and angered.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe resolution, pertaining to the forensic audit, would ensure that results from the audit cannot be used in a prosecution unless approved by the BOA. Further, the board would call upon Wess to pay the federation $994 in external legal fees by Oct. 1.
Reading Time: 3 minutesYour money was allegedly stolen from you by someone you should have trusted. Be angry about it, talk with your friends about it and make it an election issue. But what you should never do is make this a partisan issue, and that’s what one of my colleagues did. Contrary to his attempt, Alexei Kazakov’s letter does nothing to galvanize students and if his advice is heeded, the student body will be worse off for it.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFirst off, I would like to apologize to you, the student body. Most of us in student politics go into it because we want to improve your experience at the university, not make you stress about scandals and the acts of certain individuals. We do not all go out and buy expensive sunglasses or shoes, nor do we go off on expensive trips. Most of the student bodies are volunteer run, i.e. no money goes to your elected officials—it goes straight back to you.
Reading Time: 7 minutes “Allegations against Dorimain range from fraudulent use of SFUO funds under the guise of office cleaning and the catering of the SFUO Leader Action event on April 28, while Rachiq is accused in the report of possibly forging the certification of a “faulty” club called Testing Restaurants UOttawa and claiming funds for personal use.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesI write to you in the wake of the latest SFUO scandal to tickle the part of our brains concerned with righteous indignation, i.e. president Rizki Rachiq engaging in large-scale embezzlement of SFUO funds to buy himself luxury goods, including but not limited to visits to a haute-couture hair stylist in Montreal, Louis Vuitton shoes, and a $950 pair of glasses.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn July 2018, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ISC) officially declared that the Holocene Epoch—which started at the end of the last Ice Age, about 11,700 years ago—will now be subdivided into three ages, the Greenlandian, Northgrippian, and our current age, the Meghalayan.
