Chloe Cleroux, 26, knows adversity. For several long years she was almost swallowed up in the bowels of an eating disorder along with its side dishes, depression and anxiety. The all-consuming need to be a size zero and the link she had made between being thin and having friends insidiously overtook her. “I was in very poor health,” she said....

Public relations student Kennedy Calwell is rising to fame through TikTok with over 600,000 views on a single video. At the end of February, Calwell decided to make a unique Google form to send out to her dating app matches, with specific questions to elicit more personal connections. "The conversation on dating apps is so boring, I wanted to make...

People around the world got to peer into the lives of the royal family on March 7 when Oprah Winfrey interviewed Megan Markle and Prince Harry to air dirty laundry about the royal family. Markle accused the royal family of several things, including racist behaviour towards their son Archie. She also claimed that at times she "just didn't want to...

Many post-secondary schools in Ottawa are already deciding on whether their students will return to real-life classes this fall, even if the Ontario Ministry of Education hasn't yet released any statements. On March 11, Claude Brulé, president and CEO of Algonquin College, sent an email announcing the college will continue to follow the Fall 2021 planning. This means that depending...

Although the city is experiencing another three-week lockdown, implemented on March 19, the sports facilities on Woodroffe's campus will continue with some minor changes. Although the period between winter's strict lockdown and this new red-zone period saw some campus fitness activities somewhat brought back to normal, this new phase does still offer a way for people to keep active. The...

The new accelerated personal support worker program (PSW) announced for the Ottawa campus of Algonquin College and fully funded by the Ontario government is already proving to be popular. At this time there are two start dates both with a maximum capacity of 100 students. As of the date of publishing, the May 10 start date so far has 253...

Algonquin College students and staff gathered virtually on March 8 to close their eyes and breathe deeply, meditating in what Aayushi Agarwal, host of the event referred to as a “spiritual cleansing.”The meditation sessions occur twice weekly—Mondays at 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 9 a.m.— and are one of the many events hosted by the spiritual centre. Although gatherings and...

In 2014, Manmohan Singh, an Indian economist, academic and politician was succeeded by a near illiterate tea-vendor. This successor, Narendra Modi, had been associating with a right-wing Hindu nationalist group called Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since he was eight. Modi, now the 14th Prime minister of India, is currently serving his second term after being re-elected in 2019. As a...

Rebecca Wakelin has won the election to be academic representative for the Algonquin board of governors, according to results posted on March 12, 2021. Cyan Shields won the position for student representative by acclamation. Their respective terms on the board start in Fall 2021. “I am honoured to have been selected to represent the faculty voice on the board of...

For the first time in Algonquin College history, three media programs - performing arts, scriptwriting and television broadcasting - have collaborated to host the first two of three segments of Hothouse events. In previous years the Hothouse workshops were held in person, but this year it was live-streamed on Feb. 22 and Mar. 15 via the Algonquin Faculty of Arts,...