The University of Ottawa’s senatorial election will take place from June 2 to June 4 via online ballots. Here’s a look at the races for the different faculties of the University of Ottawa.
Zoë Mason
In a year riddled with crises, the attention of university administrations is understandably divided. But as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wracked the student population with isolation and grief, it’s now more important than ever that the university’s efforts to address the mental health crisis are not lost.
Five students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
Students are calling on the University of Ottawa to remove an anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that was set up just days after the university finished celebrating their annual wellness week.
Women’s rights, sexual abuse, LGBTQ+ visibility, racism, chronic illness: the Fulcrum has not strayed away from contentious issues this decade. Read here the best that the decade has had to offer.
Last weekend, five Fulcrum editors took part in a collaboration with the Gee-Gees cheerleading team. We were invited to a cheerleading practice where coach Nailah Taylor and her team taught us basic cheerleading maneuvers. It wasn’t all pretty but fun was had by all — here’s what the different editors had to say about their experiences.
From health to academics to social life, university students with chronic illnesses have to prioritize things a little differently. Take a look inside their lives and find out what the university is and isn’t doing to help.
“The idea that is being broadcast to millennials is that they can and should have it all — the only thing standing between them and unimaginable success is laziness.”
Candidates met Thursday night to discuss topics such as water protection, pollution, agriculture, and transitioning Canada’s economy away from resource extraction and unsustainable energy.
The complex dynamics of the Canada-U.S. bilateral relationship In 1969, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau described the relationship between Canada and the United States in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it …
“In the early nineties, we worried about kids passing notes, that was a distraction in class. We were taught how you intercept notes and the protocol on note-passing. We’ve just way surpassed that,” one local high school teacher says.
Is party discipline a necessarily Canadian political institution or is suffocating the democratic process?
From the waging of war to the negotiation of peace and the formation of institutions to maintain it, the Fulcrum has witnessed and documented it all since its establishment in 1942.
“It’s been a technological crisis for the last decade or so, and an advertising crisis, and now it’s sort of an existential crisis. If these things don’t exist – if the reporters and the institutions disappear from towns, campuses, cities, provinces – all of a sudden it’s just news darkness.” — Brett Popplewell, journalism professor at Carleton University.
Donnie Darko is an independent film that was the product of a first-time director, so it certainly wasn’t a blockbuster.
“It’s a scary world … I’m just thankful to not have been a teenager in the world of the iPhone.” — Lynne McInally, clinical social worker, therapist and instructor at Humber College.
“Not everyone has access to bricks-and-mortar museums … The opportunity to view art online offers increased accessibility to visual culture.”
Short story by Zoë Mason.
Indie movies are posed to take centre stage in the world of cinema.
Students are still in limbo over the future of SFUO services and businesses, along with clubs and federated bodies.
Greeting card contest seeks to unite students from various disciplines with competition to incorporate innovation into greeting card design.
