With the end of the winter term looming, a talk given by long-time journalist Anna Maria Tremonti hosted by the Pembroke campus on Monday, March 27, continues to have timely messages for students. Tremonti, in her role as a journalist, has reported on the changing world for decades. Most notably, she was at the Red Square when the Soviet Union...

One week after an ice storm, Ottawa is being treated to a mini heat wave that started on Tuesday, with temperatures predicted to reach as high as 28 C on Thursday, breaking the record previously set in 1945. According to Environment Canada, the summer-like weather in Ottawa is likely to persist until the end of the week, then return to...

Algonquin College has identified the financial loss due to a decrease in student enrolment to be the school's most critical risk. According to a report for the Board of Governors meeting on Feb. 27, overall enrolment was trending behind the approved annual budget target by 11 per cent for domestic and international students combined. In response, the college administration has...

I was talking to an international student from China a few weeks ago. That was right after the world got excited about the mysterious balloons. I wanted to ask him a question. The question one had to ask in the circumstances. It could either go very well or not go at all.“What kind of cartoons are you guys watching back...

Normally, when you hear the word competition, thunderous crowds come to mind. You think of pressure. Stress. Rivalries. Egos clashing. Trophies. Medals. Glory. Not here. Not at the climbing and bouldering walls inside the ARC. It was the opposite — chill. Even carefree. But not in a way to suggest recklessness. More like assured. As if they've done this a...

When Elise Campeau suffered a serious injury a few years ago, she needed to find something to do while she recovered. She decided to revisit a passion that she had when she was younger: painting. Campeau, who is Mohawk from Akwesasne, joined other Indigenous vendors and creators in the Student Commons on March 31 and sold paintings and prints at...

Community members have had the chance to sing and dance along to their favourite songs on the second floor of the Student Commons at the AC Hub every Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The “Feel Good Fridays” event is meant to make students feel good while listening to their favourite tunes while they study or just hang out...

Jason Brennan, the owner of Nish Media, stressed the importance of being invested in your work during a recent discussion with television broadcasting students.“As a producer, this might seem excessive but you have to be ready to die for that show because you are selling it,” Brennan said. Brennan talked with the students for an hour on March 30. Brennan...

More than 40 audience members attended Trevour Strudwick and Jamie Rallison's hypnosis and comedy show in Algonquin College's N-building on March 31. The audience members let their conscious minds go and had fun with their subconscious instead. The duo teamed up for the fundraising show, delivering a performance to remember. The tickets sold helped fund the performing arts program's end-of-year...

Algonquin College was filled with smiles on April 1 as future students filled the cafeteria talking to professors and staff about programs and activities during the spring open house.“With everyone registered I would say we have 2,200 for the event but not everyone registers. It is hard to gauge everyone who walks through the doors, but I am going to...