Dawn Owen gives a talk and guided tour of the celebratory exhibition Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC) is celebrating their 35th anniversary with an exhibition labeled XXXV. This exhibit, which launched at the beginning of May, showcases artworks from MSAC’s permanent collections. Since their beginnings in 1978, the MSAC collection […]
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Contemporary Dance Festival in Exhibition Park
Toking up and slimming down
Can marijuana protect us from obesity? Plagued by ever-rising rates of obesity and increasingly sedentary lifestyles, the time has come for Canadians to take a hit for health. Or so a recent American survey, linking regular marijuana use to improvements in metabolic health would suggest. More specifically, the National Health […]
Internet mourns the loss of their hard G
Creator says “GIF” is pronounced “jif” “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘g’, pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” This declaration from the father of the GIF sent the Internet into a chaotic frenzy over their […]
Conservatives refused to cooperate during robocall investigation
A critical analysis of political fraud During the 2011 Canadian election, a series of automated calls took place across Ontario that informed voters that venues had changed, and provided new locations for ballots to be registered. However, the calls proved to be a sabotage mission created by the Conservative Party […]
Crossing Borders: The Immigrant Experience
A First-Generation Challenge We are a nation of immigrants with a million stories; stories which marry us in a unity of struggles and triumphs as pioneers to a foreign land. We are the adherents of our ancestors who wanted more out of life; those who dreamed bigger about better. They […]
Parody vs. reality in Rob Ford crack-scandal
Out of all the things that have come out of Rob Ford’s mouth, no one could have guessed that the next thing would have been smoke from a crack pipe. About three weeks prior to the time of this publication, several journalists revealed that they had viewed a cellphone video […]
Asparagus
From their tips to roots; interesting facts, nutrition, and recipes of springtime Spring has sprung! Despite the sporadic temperature jumps, it is indeed springtime. Along with the telltale signs of tulips, petunias, and mosquitoes, waves of fresh Ontario produce have entered the stores and markets. One such spring treasure is […]
U of G looking for input on new President
Presidential selection committee holds drop-in session for community perspectives Alastair Summerlee’s current term as the President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Guelph will soon come to an end as a new president is expected to be in place by summer 2014. Summerlee is the seventh President of the University […]
Rare map finds way to Guelph Civic Museum
A rare Town of Guelph map has taken up residence at the Guelph Civic Museum on Norfolk Street. The map, hand drawn in 1868 by surveyor Joseph Hobson, was found in the basement of a local home and donated to the museum in 2008. It took two years and 275 […]
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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.