Over 30 students gathered in a lecture room in Algonquin College’s C building on Oct. 4, where they heard Moe Thomas, a business management and entrepreneurship student, introducing how the financial system works. At the first meeting of the college’s investors club, the session provided the audience with some basic knowledge about the foreign exchange market, cryptocurrency, stock market and...

Local (FROM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN)Ottawa's new LRT system endured its first Monday rush hour. The OC Transpo staff helped relieve the stress of commuters and the LRT continued without major problems. Read moreProvincial (FROM CTV NEWS TORONTO)After the last minute deal, Ontario school staff can expect job protection, a one per cent raise and millions in funding. Negotiations lasted for...

On Oct. 21, Liberal candidate Anita Vandenbeld of Ottawa West-Nepean held on to her riding and retained her seat as MP for another four years. The vote difference from Conservative candidate Abdul Abdi and Vandenbeld was 11,108, as the latter won by 45.5 per cent of the votes. Although Vandenbeld was the MP since 2015, she is the first Liberal...

The scent of freshly brewed coffee and warm cornbread infused the halls of the first floor of the DARE district on Wednesday, Oct. 9. A round table in the center of the hall draped in a black cloth held three large canisters filled with steaming hot Three Sisters soup. Made of corn, beans and squash, the soup's pairings signify the...

The transit system, affordable housing, green space protection: these are just a few issues at stake for Kanata-Carleton residents in the upcoming federal election. The last all-candidates debates took place on Oct. 17 at the Kanata Recreational Centre, which was jam-packed with Kanata residents who sat for over an hour and listened to their candidates' hopes and promises. The candidate...

Maggie Downer, a Mohawk student at Algonquin, went into yesterday's federal election with a lot of unanswered questions about Indigenous issues from the federal leaders. “I just kind of want to know what they [the federal leaders] have addressed so far," said Downer. "How many nations have they given clean water to?” For Indigenous people, there are a great deal...

For Algonquin College journalism and radio students, the only thing better than lounging around on the first day of fall break is the chance to cover a federal election. Volunteers from both programs are collaborating to produce a special live election night show on CKDJ 107.9 from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Follow this rolling story to hear from our...

Algonquin College and The Royal announced a partnership on Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day, that will create new programs for students to get easier access to support services. As a result of the partnership, health services on campus are offering students the opportunity to book a consultation with a member of The Royal through telemedicine. This will allow students...

Disney animator, Trent Correy, shared the story of how he grew to love animation to of a room full of animation students on Sept. 24. Correy, who has helped work on multiple stories with Disney productions such as Zootopia, Frozen and Moana, is currently a supervising animator for Frozen 2 for the character Olaf at Disney Animation. When Correy was...

Oct. 16, a rainy Wednesday night, brought with it one last chance for seven Ottawa-Vanier candidates to debate politics in front of prospective voters for the upcoming federal election. Candidates spent much of the night attacking what seemed to them to be a lack of prosperity in a riding that has been a Liberal party seat since 1936. "With that...