Campus clubs, newspapers and food banks are safe for now. But, how safe are they?On Nov. 2, the Ontario Divisional Court defeated the Students' Choice Initiative implemented by Premier Doug Ford in January 2019. This means non-essential fees might be included in the students' tuition once again. The Student Choice Initiative gave students the option to opt-out of campus services...

The LRT opened to the public on Sept. 14, and the Rideau Transit Group didn’t hesitate to jump onto the next stage of the project: the construction of Stage 2. Not even three weeks after the debut of Stage 1, the City of Ottawa and RTG dove into this project by clear cutting multiple forests, which includes 40-year-old trees, in...

Algonquin College placed first in the 2019 edition of the Ontario College’s Marketing Competition. The 39th OCMC was hosted by Niagara College in Niagara Falls on Nov. 22. The Algonquin College team was organized and lead by professors Jim Neubauer and Bill Garbarino and consisted of 19 competing students, nine professor coaches and 10 alumni coaches. “It certainly was a...

Dressed in a skin-tight sparkly bodysuit under the purple lights, The Queen of the North otherwise known as Brooke-Lynn Hytes, slayed the stage with the lip sync performance of Beyoncé's Partition. The first Canadian contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race made waves at the Algonquin Commons Theatre and was the show stopper for the start of Algonquin's Pride Week on Sept....

Auger-Cyr was on his way to Quebec City when the weather worsened, and the temperature dropped. He made an emergency descent to a small town called La Tuque which is almost a three hour drive from Quebec City. He ended up staying for three days until the weather cleared up so he could fly again. For pilots in training, weather...

Six points separated the George Brown Huskies and the Thunder women’s basketball teams Saturday, with Algonquin edging a 67-61 victory on home court. Thunder guard Michaela Branker was the home team’s best performer, having notched 14 points to go along with her four assists and four rebounds in the game. She said , however, that the victory was a collective...

For the Thunder women's rugby sevens team, the fall of 2019 was all about keeping their head in the game. For instance, starting the OCAA Women's Rugby Sevens Championship at Loyalist College on Nov. 2, in fourth place and ending the day in first was all about their mindset. It's why they were able to beat Durham 24-14 in the...

Mitzie Hunter, MPP for Scarborough-Guildwood, was in Ottawa to speak to students on Nov. 19 at the Senate Tavern about her ideas to help Ontario's youth as the next Liberal Premier of Ontario. Hunter is one of the five candidates running to be the leader of the Ontario Liberal party as it attempts to be beat Doug Ford's Conservatives. Hunter...

Algonquin College's esports club will not be joining some North American participants in boycotting video games made by an American company in response to accusations regarding censorship.“We have no plans to make any changes to our programming,” said Wilfred Warren, managing member of the Algonquin esports club. “Or plans on removing anything from our programming." The U. S. based gaming...

Dressed in shades of green camouflage with bright orange accents, Stephanie Foss, a first-year electrical engineering student, loads up her 2002 GM diesel truck and joins her hunting group in Lanark. From Nov. 4 to 16, Foss' hunting group, made up of seven family members and friends, get together and enjoy the wild. Of the seven members, Foss is the...