A Tribe Called Red, Timber Timbre and July Talk to headline event The Hillside Festival has released the lineup for its winter series, Hillside Inside, to be held at St. George’s Church and other locations in downtown Guelph. The festival, running from Feb. 7 to 9, will feature A Tribe […]
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Jam Space: Musings on Sound and Culture
Herbie Hancock and Flying Lotus to collaborate? A rumour is floating around on certain music websites that DJ/producer Flying Lotus is collaborating on an album with jazz legend Herbie Hancock. This article will be less about the specifics and more about speculation, specifically speculating on “How cool could that be?!” […]
Sochi Top 10
The 10 sports Canada will medal in this February No country heard their national anthem played more at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics than Canada did, raking in 14 gold, seven silver and four bronze medals. Experts and pundits see more gold in the future for our Canucks, and with no […]
Journey to Making History: The Winter Classic
105,490 in attendance – plus one My journey to the Winter Classic began in the summer of 2012, a summer that had an almost guaranteed National Hockey League lockout looming. Even with that hanging over our heads, passing on purchasing Winter Classic tickets was not an option. When the lockout […]
Soylent Nutrition Powder
Tech liberation, or new-age eating disorder in disguise? Leave it to Generation-Y and our tech-savvy minds to conceive a way to bring to life the cartoon Jetsons. Rob Rheinhart, a young Californian entrepreneur and tech-developer, seems to have struck powdery, sawdust-like gold with his Soylent nutrition powder. The powder is […]
Diet and Sustainability
How our food choices can help save the environment. Whether you are trying to slim down, bulk up, or achieve your optimal nutritional health, there is a diet plan for everyone. But as you trim pounds from your waistline, are they being added to your carbon footprint? No matter what […]
Gryphons Ringette Goes Undefeated to Take Gold
Ringette’s 50th anniversary remembers the sport’s history and features international tournament The University of Guelph ringette team travelled to North Bay, Ontario – the town ringette was invented in – to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ringette and to play in the University Challenge Cup’s (UCC) second tier, where they […]
You’ve Probably Seen this on Pinterest
How to make a good thing out of forgetting to take out your garbage One of the things that bothers me the most about Pinterest is that every post assumes that you are a fully functioning adult, with unlimited time, monetary resources and the means to remember to clean and […]
Adderall
“Higher” Education The seduction of taking performance-enhancing drugs to achieve higher grades in high school and university has become both controversial and pandemic. But does Adderall improve your GPA? Despite the perceived benefits associated with taking Adderall, there are no quick fix solutions. Not only are students cheating the system, […]
Alumni Spotlight: Kris Lehnhardt
Emergency physician has dreams the size of space Most kids at some point in their childhood make the sweeping declaration that they will some day become an astronaut. That dream, for most, fades as quickly as the sun. But there are the exceptions to the rule, such as University of […]
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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.