Reading Time: 2 minutesIn response to the travel ban issued by the United States government against seven Muslim-majority countries, the University of Ottawa has announced that it will be taking measures to assist students affected by this executive order.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the Jan. 29 shooting of six Muslim men at a mosque in Québec City, staff, faculty members, and students at the University of Ottawa gathered in solidarity and to pay their respects.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Garnet and Grey will have to re-focus after their first loss in almost two months, as they head into the final three games of their regular season.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This is way cooler than what I learned in high school. I loved the part where Sir John A. MacDonald fought off four dragons using only a rusty blunderbuss and a 60-year-old bottle of scotch.”—Sheryl Watts, a first-year alternative Canadian history major.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gees have responded well since their humiliating loss to Carleton on their home court, generating four straight wins in a row.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa women’s basketball team hit the road again to take on two Ontario University Athletics (OUA) rivals, and ended up splitting their games over the weekend.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa women’s hockey team played their last regular season home game on Saturday, Jan. 28, where they lost to Concordia by a final score of 3–2.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Dec. 31, 2016, three University of Ottawa professors were appointed to the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada, his Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gees only have four games remaining before the playoffs, and while they are holding on to second place in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), they’re not guaranteed anything yet.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith their sixth consecutive win in the bag, the Garnet and Grey have the longest winning streak in the country, and with five games left in the regular season they are showing no signs of slowing down.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“As my first year ended, I looked back and realized I was being too hard on myself. I was setting all these expectations for myself and when I didn’t reach them, I felt disappointed and slightly depressed.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoth teams have one more weekend before their much-anticipated Capital Hoops matchup, and a chance to avenge their losses to Carleton.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to Jean-Philippe Dubé, a fourth-year computer science student at the U of O, the shift to the new D2L platform was a collective decision made by the administration and members of the university Senate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe women’s volleyball team was hoping for a better start to the second half of their season after going 5–5 in the first ten games. Instead they went 1–1 this weekend going up against McGill and the University of Sherbrooke.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTitled Point and Place, this collection of video stills captures Kelsey McGruer’s organic movement around her cottage, exploring what she describes as her “ancestral home” in a totally new way.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile this year’s tournament was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, Jan. 21, the ice was too thin to skate on thanks to a treacherously mild winter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDealing with dark themes such as addiction, depression, and domestic abuse, the UOMTS’ version of American Idiot is both a bitter political screed and a testament to the importance of friendship and solidarity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ID Project helps provide health cards, birth certificates, SIN cards, and photo ID cards, according to co-founder Emily Cumbaa, who notes that simple tasks such as depositing a cheque can be made difficult without proper identification.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gees looked out of sorts all game, and a major blowout was the end result. When the last buzzer mercifully sounded the final score read an embarrassing 80–41.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter years of coming close, the University of Ottawa’s ringette team finished 2016 on a high note, battling eight other schools to bring home gold at this year’s University Challenge Cup.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter surveying over 3,000 children aged five to 18, Dr. Roger Zemek and his researchers found that physical activity may lead to quicker concussion recovery in children.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe hardest part about being back in Ottawa is just moving on. It feels like things were on pause here while I was gone and now I have to pick everything back up where I left off.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gees faced their cross-town rivals on Jan. 13 for the third of four meetings between the teams this year. The two teams combined for 18 goals in their first two meetings, with Ottawa coming out on top both times, so a high-scoring game was to be expected.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter back-to-back victories against Lakehead University, the Gees came out and played a solid 60 minutes against a struggling Laurentian team to propel their record in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference to 11–7–3.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees women’s basketball team took down two Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference rivals over the weekend in an impressive fashion to improve their record to 7–2.
