LocalThe Ottawa Citizen uncovered on Monday that a local flight school had been struggling from mismanagement long before it had its school certificate revoked last month. For months Ottawa Aviation Services struggled to pay their flight instructors. Classwork was also inconsistent and textbooks never arrived for students. A new management team has been brought on and are taking the time...

Local: The Ottawa Citizen reported Tuesday that an Ottawa school bus driver was pulled over by OPP after being spotted texting behind the wheel. The bus driver has received a distracted driving charge, which amounts to a $615 fine, three demerit points, and a three-day license suspension. National: CBC reported Tuesday that the vaping company Juul will stop selling most...

The International Education Centre held an orientation event on Saturday, Jan.11 in Marketplace cafeteria, for international students starting their classes this winter term. The cafeteria was filled with small flags of all the countries in the world and multicultural songs played prior to the event. In total, 437 students registered for the event and received their tickets online. The event...

Local: The Ottawa Citizen reports: Eight people on board Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 that crashed after departing from Tehran on Wednesday have been identified as being from Ottawa. The victims include a Kanata entrepreneur, an architect, a PhD student studying Biology at Carleton University, a Carleton University student who became a dental technologist and three students from the University of...

The Algonquin Thunder men's basketball team fell short Jan.10, against La Cité with a final score of 87-81 when the final buzzer went off. With their first game of the new year now under their belt, the Thunder fell to a 2-9 record after last night's loss. After a strong first half on the scoreboard, the Thunder managed to give...

Project Lighthouse hosted its annual Q-and-A at the Algonquin College residence SA Lounge at 7 p.m. Friday. Project Lighthouse is a program which aims to inform about sexual health and consent and prevent sexual violence on campus. “The whole point of sex is to have fun and to feel good,” said Sarah Crawford, 31, the program's founder, to a room...

Editor's note: this story has been updatedAn Algonquin College student’s wife was on Ukrainian flight PS-752, that crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff Jan. 8, while an issue with his ticket left him behind. Mohsen Ahmadipour, a first-year energy management student, had planned to fly from Iran to Canada with his wife Roja Azadian, 43. Azadian boarded the flight from...

Many of you may have seen Deijanelle Simon, Algonquin's Students' Association president, walking the hallways of the college or you've seen her speak at events. As Simon approaches the end of her two-year tenure, the Algonquin Times sat down with her to discuss her journey as president and her final term as a student. Simon who is originally from London,...

Algonquin College welcomed 33 new Canadians to campus on Dec. 12 to take their oaths of citizenship. The Institute for Canadian Citizenship hosted the citizenship ceremony in Nawapon room. New citizens started their ceremony with a round table discussion sharing their stories with each other. “One of the things that we do is these roundtable discussions to talk about people’s...

As the semester comes to an end, students' thoughts are primarily focused on exams, assignments and holiday travel plans. But the Algonquin Times wants to know your thoughts on the new decade that's less than a month away."I’ve never thought of this before," said Michael Turner, a third-year computer engineering student. And Turner is not alone. A good number of...