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I'll miss my colleagues and professors when I graduate. — Photo credit: Jon Willing

It’s Sept. 7 and there seem to be a million people in the Algonquin College hallways. It’s hot and noisy and everyone is pushing. Backpacks thwack into me and shoulders accidentally knock me around. I’ve only been here 10 minutes but I’m already annoyed. I’m walking down one of those super-heated glass bridges between buildings amidst a sea of students,...

Meet the College ward candidates in Ottawa's municipal election

Five candidates are vying to replace councillor Rick Chiarelli in College ward. — Photo credit: Nathan Drescher

The Oct. 24 municipal election is nearly here and a new city councillor for College ward will be elected. The person voters choose will be tasked with handling a few issues near and dear to the college community. The Algonquin Times reached out to all five candidates. Here is what they said. Vilteau Delvas“I know how hard it is to...

By Nathan Drescher (Nathan as photographer) + 2 others for Algonquin Journalism - 5 min read

Student and faculty group is sponsoring a refugee student

Amy Winterburn, right, and Victoria Zaremba, left, are students in the social service worker program and volunteers on the WUSC local committee. — Photo credit: Nathan Drescher

A group of students and faculty at Algonquin College are helping to bring a student refugee here to the college, beginning in the fall term. Victoria Zaremba, 27, and Amy Winterburn, 30, are students in the social service worker program. They also sit on the local committee of the World University Service of Canada, a Canada-wide organization that sponsors refugees...

We need a $2 fee to help student refugees

"A proposed fee of $2 per student per year should be a no-brainer for everyone at Algonquin College," writes the author. — Photo credit: Nathan Drescher

According to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, there are about 22 million refugees in dozens of countries around the world. In recent months, four and a half million Ukrainians, the largest refugee cohort since the height of the Syrian civil war eight years ago, have joined this unlucky community. Refugees face challenges finding clean water to drink or a...

More than half of Canadians are worrying about the price of food

LocalOttawa Citizen: Three men were stabbed in the ByWard Market around 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning as they left a bar. The stabbings occurred during a fight between two groups of people. Ottawa Police Services are asking witnesses to contact them. NationalGlobal News: An Ipsos poll commissioned by Global News found that 60 per cent of Canadians are worried they...

Algonquin students dominate We Got Game esports tournament

Nick Dudar, a student in the heating, refrigeration and air conditioning program, has been playing League of Legends for years.

Algonquin esports team mRNA swept their way to a League of Legends championship and a $150 prize pool in the We Got Game college tournament on Monday, Feb 7. There were two Algonquin College teams in the tournament. Both Algonquin mRNA and Algonquin C7 made it to the semi-finals, but mRNA went all the way to win the finals and...

Paper versus digital notes: which is better for students?

Gwyneth Jones, a first-year architecture student, swears by paper notes for her program. — Photo credit: Nathan Drescher

Danielle Allard, a professor of communications at Algonquin College, once had 61 students working on a single Google Doc at the same time, so she knows first hand there is a place for digital notes in a student’s life. “Digital has its place," Allard said. "It is a living to-do list. Paper is hard to change. When I need to...