Local CTV Ottawa: Staffing shortages saw two classes at Ottawa's Roberta Bondar Public School sit empty on Thursday. The lack of teachers left working parents scrambling for child care. A letter from the school states, "Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to secure enough replacement staff to cover all classes."Since early November the Ottawa Carleton District School...

The people travelled from as far as Kemptville and Orléans. Beaded, quilled and seal-skinned earrings bejeweled the cozy audience who filled the bottom of the Algonquin Commons Theatre Thursday for the Got Land? Comedy show. Indigenous content creators were at every turn, on stage and in the audience, dazzling in florals and wearable art. It was the first of three...

An evening of laughter filled the Algonquin Commons Theatre on Friday with Mary Walsh's wit and humour as she celebrated 30 years of her show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The evening started off with Walsh walking through the aisles of the audience cracking jokes about Parliament Hill, the LRT and U. S. President Joe Biden visiting Ottawa. Throughout the...

A gap is left in the circle, facing east, toward the rising sun. A new day, a new beginning, as Elder Verna McGregor sets the learning and sharing circle of the DARE6 partnership into motion. The Weaving Our Way event was an intimate conversation to share experiences and build connections among the community regarding the DARE6 Initiative. TD Bank sponsored...

For the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the event management students are hosting their annual fundraisers in-person. Level 2 event management students plan fundraisers as their final project every year at the end of their year-long program. This year they chose to focus on promoting only one charity: the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre. The...

Students at Algonquin College started off their third Thursday of March by learning about "femtech" with Julia Slanina."This issue is important. Julia was talking about this thing called Femtech Canada, which is this amazing new organization driving women into driving technology," said Kevin Holmes, who runs the social innovation lab at Algonquin. During the Third Thursday event, students gathered around...

The drinks were stiff and so was the competition. The crowd was ready for their queens. Sequins and all the colours of the rainbow peppered the audience for a spicy show at the Algonquin Commons Theatre Thursday night. The jokes started immediately with the host Trinity the Tuck roasting (reading) the latecomers. “We’ll wait for you,” Trinity said. Fans of...

She watched her neighbours killed, and with her family, Michaëlle Jean fled Haiti to escape Duvalier's regime, under which her father was arrested and tortured in 1965. “Growing up in Haiti, indifference was not an option,” Jean, the former governor general of Canada, said in an impassioned presentation hosted by the Leadership Development for Women Group which started International Women's...

Algonquin College's public relations program is close to publishing the Beyond the Barriers zine, which focuses on student and faculty perspectives of the pandemic through personal stories. Beyond the Barriers is a digital and print fundraising event. The digital zine, which readers can access for a low cost, is on the PR website and will have a link to a...

The Algonquin Wolves women's basketball program collected the bronze medal in a thrilling 56-52 win over the Fanshawe College Falcons at the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association championships on Sunday. Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association All-Canadian guard Dasia McDonald led the way for the Wolves, registering 19 points during the contest, while first team CCAA all-star Libby Hirst in the paint rebounded...