Why you should incorporate football-style training to your summer regiment Every athlete has an offseason. Baseball players and runners, for example, have a winter off-season, while football players and hockey players (generally) have a summer off-season. Regardless of what sport you play and train for, the off-season presents an opportunity […]
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“It’s More Than Just A Sport”
An interview with Gryphons Manager of the Year – Rachel Simpson Vince Lombardi once said, “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” When you think of who makes a team work, you think the […]
The Effects of Stress on Cancer Development
U of G prof looks as how the body responds to stress Stress is a necessary ailment of life that we experience every day. Some days, particularly around exam season, stress levels can raise to uncomfortable levels that last weeks or months and border on chronic. Other days, stress is […]
You’ve Probably Seen This On Pinterest
Random tricks that will probably make your exam season better Exam season is officially upon us – a time for cutting corners in the health and cleanliness areas of your life in order to open up more time for studying, final papers, and crying after too many hours in the […]
Perfecting Being Perpetually Poor
Making your new place fresh for fall While the end of the semester brings warmer temperatures and the promise that summer is around the corner (even if it is just the summer semester), it also brings new beginnings for many students. Whether you’re just finishing first year, or finally making […]
Skyline: Gryphons Turned Real Estate Titans
Skyline, a privately-held real estate investment trust, has grown to become a real estate juggernaut employing hundreds of people both in Guelph and around Ontario, with assets totalling in the billions. Martin and Jason Castellan, both graduates of the University of Guelph, founded Skyline along with Roy Jason Ashdown, a […]
EdTech: Ways To Go
It is evident that there is an established trend of technology companies developing software for schools. Some of the recent activities are from established players in the technology world. This includes Google’s Chromebook initiative, which created a stripped down, powerful laptop computer that relied on cloud-based services instead of native software. […]
2014 Guelph Craft Beer Show
Tasting the evolution of beer “It’s a German style wheat beer that has a banana bubble gum flavour to it,” said the lively vendor for Silversmith Brewing Company. Ordering something so eccentric is truly a homage to how the taste buds change over time. There is a coming-of-age that students […]
CSA and CFS File Lawsuit Against University
Litigation has commenced for collection of CFS membership fees Few could have predicted back in 2010, when Central Student Association (CSA) was still trying to dissolve its relationship with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario (CFS-O), that just four years later the three organizations […]
Student Volunteer Connections Moves To Student Life
After recent AGM ratification, SVC to dissolve non-profit status in July Student Volunteer Connections (SVC), which has operated as an independent non-profit corporation since 1987 and has helped students become active in the greater Guelph community since 1967, will dissolve its status as a corporation in July of this year […]
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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.