LocalOttawa Citizen: A case against a local drug dealer has revealed evidence of serious misconduct by the Ottawa police’s tactical unit. Superior Court Justice Sally Gomery ruled on Feb. 11 that the example of the 2016 dynamic entry of Tamara Bahlawan’s home was reflective of the Ottawa police’s typical entry tactics. Bahlawan, 26, who was arrested for drug and firearms...

Bell Let’s Talk Day has come and gone - and it will be forgotten for another 11 months. Breaking the stigma around mental health is not something that can be done in a day. It's a constant struggle that we have to work at year-round. Designating one day to try to raise awareness around mental health isn't enough because people...

Algonquin College’s Student Commons was filled with fury friends and smiling faces on the afternoon Monday, Jan. 27. A special ceremony welcomed 11 new "therapy dogs" to the Dog Squad program, now a group of 18 dogs and employees. This event came one year after the original start of the Squad, which had just seven dogs in January 2019. There...

Although Brittany Harkness has never travelled outside of Canada before, the first-year photography student has always loved volunteer work. She is one of the volunteers going to Guatemala with Algonquin College's Global Projects “I mixed the desire to travel and volunteer work,” said Harkness. “I hope to get a new perspective on life and learn about the culture.”Global Projects is...

I was sitting in the Algonquin Times office one winter afternoon. Everyone around me passing ideas for upcoming stories while my heart raced. I could feel it beating in my throat. My hands started shaking and no matter how much I wanted them to stop they, just keep getting worse. My chest got tighter and heavier, my breaths got shorter...

Every evening my roommate, Alex, and I sit down and talk about our days. We're both from Kitigan Zibi, two hours north of Ottawa, and have know each other since we were kids. One night in late January, I told her about the Indigenous mural at school that had been vandalized. The news didn’t come as a shock to me...

Students, faculty and community members gathered quietly around a podium at the foot of the three-storey Indigenous mural in Algonquin College's DARE district on the afternoon of Feb. 4. The crowd, so large that it filled the surrounding stairs and the balconies overlooking the space, was there for the "Gather to Heal" ceremony in honour of the mural that had...

Local: Ottawa Matters Ottawa Transit Rider, a local non-profit transit advocacy group, is challenging citizens to only ride buses, trains or ParaTranspo from Feb. 17 to 23, except for emergencies. The event is called the Ottawa’s Transit Challenge, or #transitchallenge2020 on social media, and it aims to put a spotlight on transit in the city so that it remains a...

Students from Algonquin’s business marketing program – Brenden McBride, 23, Kaleb Yadeta, 28, Brian Mikula, 25, and Pushpvir Singh, 19 – won third place at the Scotiabank Vanier College National Marketing Case Competition on Feb. 8 and 9. “It was an amazing experience,” Mikula said. “We were put in a hotel room with a case and were given three hours...

Local: The Ottawa Citizen: In the last 10 months, University of Ottawa has faced five student deaths, bringing school president and vice chancellor Jacques Frémont to call the campus’s mental health situation a “crisis.” On Tuesday, Feb.11, a news conference was held informing the school and public about the mental health services that are currently offered and how they have...