For many, home includes family, friends, a house and a community. Ultimately, home is where you make it. For Adrienne Aliyak, 26, the small community of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, approximately 2,193 km away, was once home. Aliyak is an Inuit student currently in her first-year of the pathways to Indigenous empowerment program at Algonquin College. In the five months since...

When Linda Robbins and Angela Ierullo, both graduates of Algonquin's culinary program, had been working in volunteer kitchens and at the college when they noticed something unusual about culinary students working around them. Some of them were using duct tape or staples to hold up their unhemmed pants. Ierullo and Robbins were concerned about the safety of the culinary uniform...

Two weeks ago, Ontario residents awoke in a panic after Ontario's Alert Ready Emergency Alert System sent out a false alarm. Like many Ontarians, Karl Soopalu was awakened on the crisp Jan 12. 2020 morning to the blaring alarm on his phone. He said to himself, “Oh, oh.”As the coordinator for applied nuclear science and radiation safety program at Algonquin’s...

The Algonquin Thunder women's basketball team won their game Saturday against Centennial College with a final score of 88-68. It was the 11th win for the Thunder as they are undefeated in the season with the thought of the OCAA championships on the horizon. Although the women played with skill and strategy, Michelle Branker, a guard for the women's basketball...

Algonquin College's first fall semester with a mid-term break saw student retention increase compared to the 2018 fall semester that didn't have a break. Withdrawal rates are typically highest in weeks nine and 10. According to the registrar's office at Algonquin College, the 2019 fall semester, saw a withdrawal rate for full-time post-secondary and graduate certificate programs of 7.5 per...

As our social media feeds quickly filled with tributes to Kobe Bryant yesterday following the news of his death, some Algonquin College students felt like they could do more to honour the legendary basketball player. "Kobe was a huge inspiration for me in life and basketball," said Brad Saberon, 20, a pre-health sciences student. "Back when I was younger, I...

In order to bring mental health outreach to students living in Algonquin College Residence, a weekly community dinner program was established a year and a half ago. Every Wednesday night, the Community Kitchen program invites students living in residence to come down to the back lobby and interact with their fellow peers in a dinner setting. At the same time,...

The Algonquin Thunder women's volleyball team rolled through the Centennial Colts during the home game on Jan. 18, where they dominated with a 3-0 win. Following the win, the Thunder stand at 10-2 in the OCAA women's volleyball east division, good for second place. The first set started off strong. The women capitalized on every opportunity that came their way....

The Algonquin College Makerspace team held one of their weekly workshops, which covered the basics of 3D design, on Jan. 17. The Makerspace, located in room C275, is an on-campus lab that students and staff are welcome to visit in order to use tools and software to build and design whatever they can imagine.“Our plan is basically just to have...

Algonquin College hosted the first knitting event of 2020 on Wednesday at noon and employees took a break from their busy schedules to stay in the community loop at Algonquin College. Every Wednesday, all staff and faculty are welcome to join and learn to knit, crochet, embroider and do other crafts in the Marketspace room C276.“The purpose of this event...