Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents voice concerns about grading system online New Year’s has come and gone, and University of Ottawa students are slowly settling into the new year and new semester. However, many students are still waiting on thing from 2015—their grades. A number of U of O students have taken to Twitter to comment on how they …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlleged perpetrator leaves country before facing judicial repercussions Charges have been laid in the sexual assault case of former University of Ottawa student Mélodie Morin, however the alleged assailant has left the country. Morin first gained attention when she went public with her story of being sexually assaulted by another student near campus, and called …
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents to vote on three referendums in mid-February elections The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) 2016 general election will take place on Feb. 9-10 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The SFUO has seen a tumultuous year with two sudden resignations from the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesJesse Cooke adapts to business in Canada’s North If you think getting to class in the winter is hard, think again—lack of transportation in the northern Yukon can make travelling near impossible in any season. However, University of Ottawa graduate Jesse Cooke’s chartered bus service, Husky Bus, has been making moving around up North a …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees women’s hockey team was two minutes from victory over the first-place Université de Montreal Carabins.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Gees recently returned from a two-week training camp in Hawaii, and it looks to have paid off.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe rivalry between the Gee-Gees and Ravens women’s basketball teams is mostly a product of proximity rather than emotional and physical battle.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“When Ottawa plays against Carleton, it’s not even the same sport—it’s war out there.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesJulie Tam, the Assistant Director, Communications, Marketing and IT will step in to serve as Acting Director until the vacancy is filled.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoth Fauteux Hall and the 1 Nicholas building were evacuated and closed Jan. 12 after main water breaks. In addition classes were cancelled at Fauteux Hall shortly after 9 a.m. and the university has since extended the cancellations for the entire day.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees will hope to take the cold-blooded clutch moment as foreshadowing for more key wins against top teams.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteZaher “Zach” Nourreddine a 25-year-old former University of Ottawa student has died in hospital after he was violently robbed in the area of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue in Toronto.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO) is asking for judicial review regarding raises given to two senior university administrators.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO) is asking for judicial review regarding raises given to two senior university administrators.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudy looks to prepare astronauts for Mars while improving life on Earth All researchers are told to shoot for the moon, but one University of Ottawa team thinks that isn’t quite far enough. U of O researchers will be working with astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) to learn about how changes in bone …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa’s (SFUO) Board of Administration (BOA) has proposed a referendum question to increase a levy that funds refugee students to include a refugee student, at their meeting on Deb. 6.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Telfer School of Management recently launched the Entrepreneurship Foundry Course, which, like entrepreneurship itself, is a product of a variety of disciplines and skills.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJacques Frémont, the successor to president and vice-chancellor Allan Rock, was formally introduced at a press conference at the University of Ottawa’s Advanced Research Complex on Dec. 4.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe university’s monthly Board of Governors (BOG) meeting played to a full house.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ottawa Police evacuated an area of the Rideau Centre after receiving call at 12:15 pm about a “suspicious package”, but said the area was safe a few hours later. “We’re investigating a suspicious package at Rideau Centre,” tweeted the Ottawa police at around 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 4. At 1:30 p.m. a media relations …
Reading Time: 2 minutesKevin Page, Canada’s former and first Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO)—responsible for providing independant financial analysis to parliament—gave a talk to students on Nov. 23 at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) building on his time as the PBO, and his hopes for Canada’s future and tell his story.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJacques Frémont, a lawyer and president of Quebec’s human rights commission will succeed Allan Rock as the 30th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ottawa
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa will be offering up its Ian G. Scott courtroom, free of charge, for hearings to determine refugee status.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa has become the first university in Canada to sign the Montreal Carbon Pledge, and the second in the world after the University of California.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSFUO marches against anti-black racism In light of the recent events at the University of Missouri and Yale University in the United States, rallies in support of black students took place across American and Canadian university campuses. The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) hosted the U of O’s march that took place …
