The college is leading a $2.5 million program to provide Indigenous youth with job training and skills in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Rapid Response Initiative, is funded by the federal government as part of Phase 2 of the COVID-19 Support Fund. The program is expected to run until the end of March of 2021, and will provide...

COVID-19 has impacted the lives of everyone, and college football players are no exception. These players have had their seasons, and potentially a final year of game tapes, taken away from them. Now, they are left wondering what their next step is. Alain Cimankinda transferred to Carleton University, this year, from the University of Guelph. His brother, Jean-Paul Cimankinda, has...

Books act as windows to another world. Reading can take us to Brazil, Afghanistan, Russia, Nepal and many places we have never been as a getaway from life. Even if I am busy with school and work, I always have a book around. I am always "in a book," even if I am on the fifth page for two weeks....

For many post-secondary students, the desire to party is strong. Partying is almost necessary for them to make it through the semester. The party scene will always be a part of the post-secondary experience, but what happens when you throw a pandemic in the mix?It seems like a few students still indulge in a little partying now and then. However,...

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March, many Canadians were picked up with the launch of CERB. But for students, the financial response took much longer. Unlike CERB, the CESB didn't begin until May 15th. Gihad El-Aswad, 20, is a second-year criminology student at Carleton University who works in the summer as a program coordinator for the Youth in Policing...

I don’t remember a world where I heard sounds naturally. In fact, I don’t think that reality ever existed. My mother, Jessica Hamer, didn’t find out until after a few months I was born.“I was worried! You weren’t crying or anything,” says my mother. “I swear, I could vacuum right around you and you wouldn’t notice.”The doctors told her I...

When Daniel Harris talks about how to make polyamorous relationships work, he sometimes likes to joke that the requirements are a shared Netflix account and a Google calendar.“I don’t believe in a way of living for everyone," said Daniel Harris, 36, who has considered himself polyamorous for 12 years now. "You have to find what makes you want to be...

It was my job to sweep. It wasn’t too difficult to do, even for a 10-year-old. I had gotten better over the years. I used to watch my mom do it, fast and swift as if part of the allure. She had the perfect technique. One hand down around the middle of the handle, her forearm guiding the bristles around...

It can be tempting to think of nostalgia as a set of rose-coloured glasses that idealize the past, but there’s so much more to it than that. Nostalgia can counteract things like loneliness, boredom, anxiety and uncertainty by giving us something familiar to hold onto. When revisiting our past, we can regain a sense of control and direction that calms...

As remote learning continues throughout various programs at Algonquin College, students are continuing to get in touch with the new reality, which is the fall term being delivered through Zoom, for the most part. While some programs require students to be present for limited face-to-face interaction, many programs have taken the online learning route. For 21-year-old Roni Mathew, a level-four...