Ontario universities look to increase Aboriginal scholarship On Feb. 4, 2016, the University of Guelph, as a part of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), launched the “Let’s Take our Future Further” campaign. The provincial initiative is intended to encourage Aboriginal students to consider and pursue post-secondary education. The campaign […]
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This Week on the Internet
Are Super Bowl ads worth it? From the depths of Reddit, user McWitt questions what the five-million dollars in ad money could have been used for. The aptly named Reddit user’s post made it to the front page of Reddit on Monday following the Super Bowl. “Colgate had a 5 million […]
Hillside Inside 2016
Friday Written by Claudia Idzik | photos by Mido Melebari Each January, the Hillside Festival offers a taste of their summer festivities with a set of multi-venue shows around Guelph, called Hillside Inside. This year’s Hillside Inside featured headliners Basia Bulat, The Strumbellas, and Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrahka, along with events […]
The problem with ‘voluntourism’
Can short-term volunteer trips be doing more harm than good? Volunteer trips abroad, or “voluntourism” as it has come to be known, is one of the tourist industry’s fastest growing sectors. You can’t skim through your social media without seeing another university student with a backpack and a bleeding heart, […]
Fans of retro gaming classics rejoice
Designer Mizzat Kidd is creating custom consoles inside of video game cartridges On Jan. 26, 2016, designer Mizzat Kidd, also known as Matthew Longo, unveiled his newest project; a Nintendo cartridge, with a full-blown gaming console inside. The video detailing this piece was released on Kidd’s personal Facebook page and […]
Let’s talk about #BellLetsTalk
The good and bad of a corporate bandwagon On Wednesday Jan. 27, 2016, Canadians took to the internet in droves, texting and tweeting almost 126 million #BellLetsTalk hashtags. This relatively new annual event has captured Canadians by storm each January, totalling this year to a more than $6 million donation […]
Guelph community protesters rise up amidst Kirill controversy
Internet celebrity’s Guelph event gets shut down After numerous protests from the Guelph community, the Internet celebrity Kirill—who goes by the name “slutwhisperer”—has had his event shut down. Kirill was originally scheduled to perform on March 4, 2016 at Opus Lounge in downtown Guelph. From a single glance at his […]
GMOs that will make you bananas
Common foods that most may not know are genetically modified Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs for short, have become a very taboo topic among the public. There is much unrest at the idea of this ‘new’ innovative way of producing mass amounts of food. However, the vast variety of foods […]
Study suggests genetics, schizophrenia could be linked
Geneticist from Harvard Medical School aims to find origins of the mental affliction Like many other psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia has yet to find a root cause for its origins. However, the latest research conducted by a team of scientists led by Steve McCarroll, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, may […]
A Matter of Facts: Justice for all
Research aims to restore equi-table access to resources for victims of domestic violence Anyone experiencing intimate partner violence should have equitable access to assistance and the appropriate resources from community and criminal justice agencies,” University of Guelph Prof. Myrna Dawson explains. Whether it be shelters, legal advocacy, counselling, access to […]
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The Ontarion is the University of Guelph’s independent student newspaper. It began in 1951 as part of the Ontario Agricultural College and then began to represent the entire University of Guelph once it amalgamated in 1964. The Ontarion incorporated in May 1970 as The Ontarion, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation registered with the province of Ontario.