When Algonquin College students received an email from the president on March 13 stating that classes would be suspended for a week and then shifted online until further notice, I wasn't worried. With the outbreak of COVID-19, much of the world was going frantic and the number of positive cases was increasing every day. I was still not worried when...

Four civil engineering technology students fastened their seatbelts and prepared for take-off in the ACCE building on Tuesday, March 3 when they ran a paper plane toss event. Daniel Nahir, Mike McClure, Shubham Sharma and Dhruv Mehra are all in their final year of civil engineering at Algonquin College. For their end-of-semester project, they had to collectively organize an activity."It...

An Algonquin animation grad worked on the team for the film Hair Love, which won the 2020 Academy Award for best animated short film. Collin Tsandilis was a student at Algonquin from 2006 to 2009. He first started out in the one-year pre-animation program to prepare for the animation program.“At the time, there were no internships in the program and...

Algonquin College’s Learning Centre is offering resources to the community during the Covid-19 period in the form of free business classes. They will run until April 30 and come with no cost with the exception of fees, certain textbooks and exams. “We are all in this together and Algonquin College wanted to give back to businesses and employees in these...

Ah, the movies. They are a wondrous form of entertainment. The best of them usually have a fantastic storyline, include visually appealing sets and feature people who don't just read lines, they live them. Some of the greatest films are created completely from scratch by the brainpower of the scriptwriter. Some are inspired or loosely based on another source. In...

Sitting alone at my house, my phone buzzed with a message from one of my cheerleading teammates to our team group chat. It was a video she made filled with moments from our season, with our song, The Climb by Miley Cyrus. Watching all the memories play out filled me with sadness as tears flooded my eyes. I remembered all...

The first six weeks of the spring 2020 term will run online beginning on May 19, Algonquin president Claude Brulé said in a statement issued to staff and students on March 27. There will be a one-week break after online classes conclude, followed by an additional six weeks of face-to-face learning, provided it has been deemed safe to do so....

In this time of isolation and global uncertainty because of the COVID-19 crisis, the need for entertainment to keep us occupied has never been more urgent. This is why over the next couple of weeks I will be sharing some of my favourite books. These are books that have been sources of comfort during some of my own personal student-angst...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an $82-billion aid package on March 18, to provide support to Canadian during the coronavirus pandemic. The package includes $27 billion in direct assistance. Student loan pause: Starting March 30 until Sept. 30, anyone repaying their student loan will automatically get a six-month interest-free pause on repayment on the federal debt portion of your loan....

Campus services at Algonquin is still working on how to help parking permit holders who no longer need to park on campus due to the shut down. "We are currently discussing parking permit refund details and processes," said Mara Lowrey, marketing and communications manager for Campus Services in an email. "This situation is rapidly changing and we are working hard...