An intramural doubles badminton tournament had college students in full swing last week. The one-day tournament on Dec. 9 brought teams of students to play badminton throughout the day. Stephanie Rheaume, the campus recreation coordinator for the Students' Association, said the intramural doubles badminton tournament guaranteed students three games in the round-robin and before the crossover semifinals and the finals."It's...

Located at Ottawa's TD Place, Beandigen is a mother-and-daughter Indigenous cafe and a hub for Indigenous artists selling their work. Neatly displayed in the storefront are beaded jewelry, textiles, clothing and branding items of the cafe. Jade Naponse, 28, from Atikameksheng Anishnawbek, located near Sudbury, is a beader who works as a barista and owns the mother-and-daughter cafe. "Me and...

This story deals with serious topics such as sexual assault. All names have been changed. When I was younger, I always feared my last breath, wondering how it would feel like. I was afraid that the day I died I wouldn’t be able to feel the sunshine on my skin one last time. That the end would come too abruptly....

Kuper Island is an eight-part podcast series that shares the stories of four Indigenous children who attended the former Kuper Island Indian Residential School. Three survivors share their life experiences and the abuses they encountered while in residential school. Award-winning investigative reporter Duncan McCue uncovers police investigations, confronts the abusers and sees a community trying to heal. McCue goes to...

Every time Tevin-Klyde Nzamba is in his recording studio, he’s an entirely different person. He is relaxed, calm and collected. Most importantly, he is self-confident, almost like he can take on the world. Whenever he’s in his studio, he feels like a completely new person. That new person is Nwar Dorée. Born in France with an African background from Gabon...

I'm a non-gamer who hasn't played video games for more than 10 years, but the one video game that highlights my memories of being a teenager is Super Smash Bros Melee from Nintendo's GameCube. HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer, developed the Super Smash Bros series. Melee is the second installment, released in 2001. It still has a dedicated...

When I first met Liz Wheeler in 2021, she was still living in her Ottawa home, selling books on her Instagram page called SecondHand Stories and raising money for rescued farm animals. She greeted me at her door with a warm smile and five gentle cats following her every move. She showed me her room in the basement filled with...

Collinda Joseph has a wonderful, warm laugh that puts you at ease immediately. I think we both needed that. I was very nervous about interviewing the 57-year-old curling champion, who won bronze at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games. When I ask her "How has your morning been?" Joseph says, “busy.” If you know anything about small talk, any answer...

When you set foot in a club and the floors are vibrating with the bass of the music while lasers spin and strobe up all the walls and across the crowd, most people are there to have a good time, not looking for their next job. Brittany Provost, 29, sees things a little differently to most though. Women in the...

As the fall semester ends, the holidays get into gear and with the celebration of Hanukkah. On Dec. 15, the Students' Association hosted and celebrated its first early Hanukkah kickoff in the Student Commons at the Ottawa campus, where guest speaker Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky shared the meaning of the menorah and the Hanukkah celebration. Rabbi Boyarsky said this Sunday is...