Super Mario, a pirate and a Hula dancer gathered for some Halloween fun in the Algonquin College Fitness Zone on Oct. 31 to compete in a bench press and costume competition. The group consisted of eighteen competitors, all of them members of the AC Fitness Zone, who each had three attempts to lift. In three rounds, the competitors had to...

During the Ontario provincial election campaign in 2018, Doug Ford announced he would tie funding to free speech on campus.“Colleges and universities should be places where students exchange different ideas and opinions in open and respectful debate,” said Ford in August 2018 in a released statement. "Our government made a commitment to the people of Ontario to protect free speech...

Susan McCaig, a part-time digital health professor at Algonquin and a telemedicine nurse at The Royal, attaches her Bluetooth-enabled stethoscope to her computer so her patient’s heartbeat can be heard over on the cardiologist’s end. Although the cardiologist may be in another province, they can still hear the heartbeats in order to assess the patient. Although digital health week is...

On Nov. 18, President Claude Brulé will welcome Miranda Wilson to his team as the new executive assistant. Although Wilson has been a member of the college for a long time - first as a student and then as a staff member - Wilson knew this new position was right for her. The Times sat down with her and asked...

Security training on campus is always the first priority especially when it involves the protection of students and staff on campus, however, how much can campuses do to ensure the safety of students? In September, the University of Ottawa saw two incidents on separate occasions, whereby black students were carded for no reason while on campus property. Despite the changes...

Rebecca Baker, a first-year community justice program student, started feeling suicidal when she was a young teenager. The older she has gotten, the better she has become at learning how to manage the feeling."I wanted to kill myself when I was 13," she said. "I did not follow through, but that's the earliest I remember."Baker, who is now 27, is...

There is a spacious courtyard situated next to the DARE district. It is surrounded by buildings on all sides. Sunlight shines down while providing a social place in the middle and a study spot along the sides with chairs. This place is the Ishkodewan courtyard and in the Algonquian language it means there is fire. It's a fitting name for...

Walking in late to a lecture has become second nature for me. I have significant time-management issues that I have never treated. But there are also factors out of my control like someone holding up the O-train's doors resulting in a thirty-minute delay. As we're now moving into the second half of the fall semester, it's as good a time...

After four weeks into school and four weeks of being waitlisted, some students are wondering if more parking spots will be made as the ARC has occupied 250 prime spots in Lot 8. Raymond Falardeau, a second-year business administration student, is one of these students. “When I got my pass last year, I was late getting it, so I thought...

Meagan Willman, a second-year student taking the child and youth care program, has benefited from the week off in October. She caught up on schoolwork, spent a whole day in her pajamas and ate popcorn and snacks while watching shows and movies all week long. “I think that everybody needs a break sometimes,” said Willman. “I know last year my...