Flu shots are now available on campus but are offered only to dorm residents, campus staff, and students who are approved to attend classes on campus.“Ottawa Public Health is in control,” said Trina Budd, manager of Algonquin College’s Health Services. “We have no control over how much we get. We’ve asked for more, but we don’t know.”Algonquin College’s flu vaccination...

Abhishek Gupta, a spring graduate of the outdoor adventure naturalist, had gone back home to Punjab, India when he received the news that he was selected as the valedictorian of Algonquin's Pembroke campus on June 12, 2020. “I had mixed feelings about it,” he said. “It made me feel special and honored at the same time. I felt the pressure...

Since COVID-19 forced everyone inside in March, there have been restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings. Those restrictions have made celebrating birthdays in the traditional way virtually impossible. Despite things being more difficult, students at Algonquin College have been finding a way to celebrate birthdays during the pandemic. "I've had both my birthday and celebrated others since March," said Mary...

In addition to Algonquin’s Mobile Safety App, the college introduced a new COVID-19 digital self-screening plugin on Nov. 9 to improve health and safety measures concerning campus access. The program was developed by Toronto-based company Apparmour, who created the original safety app during their eight-year partnership with the college. The add-on comes as a measure to improve COVID-19 screening practices...

Algonquin College has partnered with Ciena Corporation, a global networking systems, services and software company, to bring a state-of-the-art telecommunications lab to the Woodroffe campus, providing students training with the equipment that powers most internet traffic. The lab was completed in August 2020 and is open to all students in the optical systems and sensors portion of the information technology...

If you were to look eight months ago at the college's sports scene for the Algonquin Thunder, winter varsity sports were going to go as planned along with regular basketball and volleyball games. Fast forward to today, and it seems like the sports world at Algonquin College and the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) has a lineup of question marks...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people have started creating freelance jobs on the side to generate more stable sources of income. For some, like Lindsey Cybulski, a personal support worker alumni at Algonquin College who works full time at a local pharmacy as a home health worker, she has also invested in a craftier side hustle.“I can make custom designs,...

In the last six months, Charles Puthukara Thomas has had two significant victories that have proved to him that his decision to attend Algonquin's broadcasting-television program was a good one. In June, he won the International House Prize, which is awarded to students who study on a student visa and are nominated by their professors. Then, in October, Thomas moved...

During non-COVID times when most of Algonquin College’s students were learning on campus, Kettleman’s Bagel Co. was a popular hotspot amongst students. Today, despite a majority of students learning remotely, Linda Rohmer, the restaurant's food services manager, says they’re still busy.“Things are different, but I’m not 100 per cent certain that it’s for the worse," she said. "People are still...

For Wosam White, a nursing lab technologist who is on campus three days a week this semester, the risk of coming in contact with the COVID virus is higher for him than for staff and faculty who are working from their homes. But as a hands-on worker, White says it’s preferable to doing everything remotely.“Most of the work I do...