2-1 loss moves Gryphons to 0-1-1 this season The Gryphons men’s hockey team lost their home opener 2-1 in overtime against the York Lions on Oct. 3, moving to 0-1-1 on the season. The energy in the Gryphon Centre was electric as the young Guelph team, with only two fourth […]
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eBar Rings in Autumn with Bruce Peninsula
Bruce Peninsula, Adverteyes, and Del Bel featured in Kazoo! #192 The persistence of Americana, as a musical genre, is sometimes a tricky thing to pin down. On one hand, purist roots seem to permeate the (often-bearded) self-awareness of the big folk band/collective/family format. On the other, some artists seem to […]
Album Of The Week
As most of us head off this weekend for our familial homes, down the winding Ontario highways and train tracks littered with orange and gold leaves of early October, we need a soundtrack to accompany our full bellies and the kilometre signs passing us by. Sweden’s Kristiann Mattson (The Tallest […]
Top 5: Natural Cold Remedies
The season is here – feel better naturally Unfortunately for students everywhere, midterm season is the same as cold and flu season. This list is a compilation of easily located and prepared natural remedies that will boost your immune system, and keep you healthy and energized so you can do […]
Dear Elann
Dear “Really Need To Get Organized”: Your remarks about when the fun stops and the work starts are being heard loud and clear! You get your schedule, memorize the map of the campus, work out a “living plan” with your new house-mates, get to a few social events, and suddenly […]
An Opinion of What an Undergrad Means Out There
From one undergrad to another When beginning my education at Guelph, I was eighteen and had just completed high school two months prior. Even with having had other opportunities to pursue, I chose to hunker down and begin my B.A in English. Still to this day, I question what it […]
The Weekly Yank
Contentment I had a conversation with a woman who had just bought a 40-pound bag of chicken. She was ecstatic about her purchase. She rattled off the near endless amount of ways she and her husband would prepare and eat their way through the near infinite supply of chicken she […]
Guelph Mayoral Candidates Debate at U of G
Candidates vie for student vote Six of the seven Guelph mayoral candidates met on Tuesday, Sept. 30 for a debate geared towards student issues. With the sole exception of Nicholas A. Ross – who has yet to make a formal public appearance – Jason Blokhuis, Andrew Donovan, incumbent Mayor Karen […]
The Disappearance of the European Honeybee
What the problems are and how we can help fix them There is a very clear reason to hit the panic button sometime soon, since no other animal species is as crucial for the production of fruits and vegetables as the European honeybee. These fruits and vegetables, which keep us […]
Under the Radar
Vatican pedophilia scandal Former Vatican archbishop Jozef Wesolowski has been accused of pedophilia after more than 100,000 child porn photos and videos were discovered on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic. Wesolowski, 66, was arrested at the Vatican at the end […]
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The Ontarion publishes independent, student-produced news, opinion, and commentary for University of Guelph students so that they can make informed decisions in their lives. To do this, The Ontarion provides learning opportunities and training in journalism, media production, leadership, board governance, and other aspects of nonprofit news.
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.