Nearly one out of five Algonquin students who took part in a provincial government survey last year reported being sexually assaulted or harassed. The survey has led to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to announce it is doubling the funding to $6 million for the Women’s Campus Safety Grant. This funding will be spread across all post-secondary institutions...

Ryan Pownall knows how to throw a party. Pownall is the organizer and founder of Palooza Beer Pong Festival, the Guinness World Record holder for the world’s largest beer pong tournament. The tournament raises money for the CHEO Foundation. In 2013, Pownall graduated from the business marketing program and started Palooza Fest that same year, as a small beer pong...

“As long as OSAP is paying for my tuition significantly, just enough and covering all the basic needs, then I am content,” said Caroline Team, business administration student. "It will affect me, so bad I have to pay the loan back right away."Marwa Younes, interactive media and desgin student. "It is going to be harder to pay back the OSAP...

Algonquin has reversed a proposal to outsource health services and will be keeping the current health service system. “The decision to stay keeps things status quo. Same time of operating hours, a similar cost to the college and hopefully the same type of student fees, but we will have to see our way through that," Laura Stanbra, vice president of...

LOCALAccording to the Ottawa Citizen the National Capital Commission is continuing with the development of LeBreton Flats in stages. After the breakdown of the $4.1 billion plan to move the Ottawa Senators downtown, the NCC has chosen to inch forward by redeveloping LeBreton Flats in sections instead of the entire 56 acres at once. The NCC will be inviting proposals...

Algonquin bought and aired a commercial during this year's version of the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is the biggest night of the NFL football season. According to the Toronto Star, 4.45 million Canadians watched the event this year. "The AC Super Bowl placement was seen by approximately 235,000 viewers in Eastern Ontario," said Alanna McDonell, Algonquin's director of marketing....

In a small tattoo studio and art gallery called Railbender located in Hintonburg, Algonquin police foundations professor Dr. Chris Martin shared excerpts from his new book The Social Semiotics of Tattoos Skin and Self. Railbender holds a lot of sentiment for Martin. One of the people he dedicated his book to was Alex Néron, the co-owner of Railbender, who passed...

I was lying in bed when my sister called, her voice trembling when she said, “the hospital called, mom is gone.” My mother had breast cancer for three years before she passed away Dec. 20, 2013. I got up and made my way to the Ottawa General Hospital, my body shaking as I tried to contemplate what my last words...

Local newsAccording to the CBC, Paul Dewar is being remembered as an advocate in Ottawa. Dewar was the former NDP MP for Ottawa Centre. Dewar passed away Wednesday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 56-years-old. Residents in Ottawa remember Dewar for all the work he has done in the community. Kitchissippi councillor Jeff Leiper shared his sentiment and...

“I envision this could be one of the most important legacies that I leave here at the college.” That's Algonquin President Cheryl Jensen's view of the importance of the newly-official campus smoking ban which took effect Jan. 1, 2019. And so far at least, the college has been serious about alerting students and staff that they're contravening the new ban....