Local: Ottawa Citizen: Thursday night firefighters, paramedics and police responded to a serious collision at Baseline Road and Woodroffe Avenue. One vehicle smashed into a lamp post after it collided with another vehicle. Firefighters used their teamwork to perform a complex extrication to rescue someone from a sedan. National: National Post: University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson has pulled...

LocalOttawacitizen A 32-year-old man was charged by the Ottawa Police with mischief over $5000 for defacing an Indigenous mural at Algonquin College. The man was arrested Saturday just days after he ruined the mural with yellow paint and a mop. The mural took seven months to complete and was done in consultation with the Indigenous community including students and elders....

Local: Ottawa Citizen Since the launch of the Confederation Line, riders have complained about strange smells in the Rideau train station. It started off with what smelled like sewage, and now emits an aroma similar to the smell of rotting eggs. OC Transpo reports that Rideau Transit Maintenance (RTM) is looking into the problem. The smell had diminished and could...

When Callum Fraser graduated from Algonquin College in 2016, he had a vision of what he wanted his career to entail: sports. Four years later, Fraser, now 24, hasn't just had one job in sports, but two of them. He is an Ottawa Senators correspondent for NHL.com and was formerly a host of Battle of the Atlantic on TSN 1200....

For students, staff and visitors to Algonquin's Woodroffe campus, the sight of construction workers and large construction trucks working away at completing the new Athletics and Recreation Centre is a daily occurrence. Algonquin College's Students' Association is working on a facility that will incorporate new activities such as bowling and a golf simulator along with existing sports such as basketball...

When Adam Mcdonald woke up in his Algonquin residence room around 3 a.m. during the first week of the winter term, he noticed water coming from his ceiling. “It was dripping out of the top of the window the way water would drip out of a tap,” said Mcdonald, a pre-trades student. “Then it just started flowing very fast." Shortly...

Eventually the winter term will come to an end and with it, the end of the current term for the Algonquin College Students' Association board of directors. Every year the SA holds an election to create the new board of directors, but few students understand the process. The process for selecting the new board has been underway since Nov. 25...

The sexual health initiative Project Lighthouse hosted a screening of the film The Mask You Live In in the AC Hub on Jan. 21 to raise awareness for men’s issues such as absent fathers, substance abuse and suicide. Project Lighthouse is an Algonquin College community project aiming to promote sexual health and reduce sexual violence on college campuses. The Mask...

Algonquin’s graphic design department hosted an art sale on Friday, Jan. 31 featuring prints created by third-year students. The event, which began at 10 a.m., went late into the afternoon and attracted large crowds throughout the day. There were a variety of stickers and art prints all under $5 that visitors could choose to purchase. Over the semester, students work...

Students got to experience some real Canadian winter weather on Jan. 23 as they made their way down the hills of Sommet Edelweiss on tubes in -6C weather. The event was hosted by the college's AC Hub. For some students like Fernanda Iandim, who is an interactive media design student, it was a new experience. “It is my first time...