How to process your own feelings of loss and to help friends deal with theirs Losing a loved one is something that everyone will experience at some point in their life. Whether the death is sudden or expected, it can leave one feeling an array of intense emotions. Despite knowing […]
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My personal experience living as an anxious anorexic
Why telling me “just eat” doesn’t really help My name is Kelsey and I am a master of worry. I worry about the weather. I worry about my father driving to work every morning. I worry about having enough money 50 years from now. My name is also Kelsey, struggling […]
Canada conducts consultations for front-of-packaging labels
Changes aim to simplify nutrition literacy for Canadians During Health Canada’s nutrition labelling consultations in 2015 and 2016, many Canadians expressed the interest in having one government-led front-of-packaging (FOP) system for products to help make healthy choices easier, according to the Government of Canada in an issued statement. The FOP […]
Student-friendly recipe of the week: Homemade chicken noodle soup
Dinner doesn’t get any cozier With colder weather quickly approaching and flu season just around the corner, there is no better time to learn how to make a quick, cheap, and easy chicken noodle soup recipe that tastes just like home. You can use pretty much whatever leftover vegetables you […]
Canadian power-pop pros give an enthusiastic performance
Fortnight Music presents TUNS with Young Rival To call the band TUNS a supergroup seems at odds with the spirit of their music. While comprised of three prominent figures of independent music in this country, the combination of Matt Murphy of the Flashing Lights and Super Friendz, Chris Murphy of […]
L CON releases third studio avant-pop album
Moon Milk as artistic as it is catchy On Oct. 7, 2016, L CON released Moon Milk, an album supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Released by Wildlife Sanctuary Sound Recordings, L CON’s Moon Milk was co-conspired with the help of Andrew Collins. This album was created as a part […]
Album of the Week
Dan Mangan’s 2009 album Nice, Nice, Very Nice is exactly the kind of mellow acoustic folk to provide the backing track to midterm studying—or any kind of mid-semester writing that needs to be finished before the ever looming deadline. Mangan’s raspy vocals and folksy guitar weave stories of melancholy and […]
Guelph Film Festival boasts dozens of thought-provoking films
A veritable smorgasbord of films wow and inspire audiences As one of the first international documentary film festivals in the world, the Guelph Film Festival was founded in 1984 and continues to screen films of both local and global relevance. This year’s festival took place at various intimate and accessible […]
Recounting heroic stories from battles fought during WWII
Guelph Historical Society hosts exhibition on Canadian wartime history With history, there is often the risk of seeing it as words on a page and to forget that the people, what they experienced, and that what they felt, were very real. Leading up to Remembrance Day, the Guelph Historical Society […]
Water-taking in Guelph and area opens conversation at City Hall
Guelph on the forefront of demanding provincial action Guelph City Council held a Committee of the Whole special meeting on the subject of provincial permits to take water on Mon, Nov. 7. The marathon meeting lasted over five hours, wrapping up after midnight. Preceding the meeting, a group of concerned […]
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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.