Guelph makes history against Brock, lose close game to Ottawa The University of Guelph Gryphons women’s basketball team faced off against the Brock Badgers on March 2, 2016, in their first OUA playoff game since 2013. Entering into this game, Guelph had not won a playoff match in nine years. […]
Author: The Ontarion
ADHD misdiagnosed in young women
Misdiagnosis can cause long-term mental health complications “Imagine being a young female, and always being told ‘hurry up, why are you always forgetting everything, why can’t you focus?’” Here, journalist and mother Patricia Tomasi, is describing for the Huffington Post an unfortunate truth for many women. A lifetime of being […]
Library Voices comes to the UC
CSA’s concert series brings Saskatchewan band to Guelph Library Voices stopped in at the University of Guelph while on tour to perform at a CSA Noon-Hour Concert Series and took some time to chat after the show. Hailing from Regina, the peppy, surf-pop indie band Library Voices is changing physically […]
The Sheepdogs and Beat Cops Rock Guelph
The Sheepdogs visited Guelph on their nationwide tour to promote their new album Future Nostalgia On Friday, March 4, 2016, The Sheepdogs took the stage at the Guelph Concert Theatre, playing to a sold out crowd of 1,300. The Sheepdogs played an impressive set, spanning 90 minutes of sweat-drenched rock […]
Gain Music Fest presents Friday on the Fringe
A night of noses, nails, and pop rock On Friday, March 4, 2016, DSTRCT held Friday on the Fringe as part of Gain Music and Arts Festival. The event was hosted by Orbax and Pepper, alternatively known as the Monsters of Schlock, who are two comedic entertainers that were garmented […]
Lawrence Hill to become a University of Guelph Professor
Students can learn to write fiction from a nationally-acclaimed author Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes, will begin teaching creative writing courses at the University of Guelph in fall 2016. The news was announced in a February 24th press release by the university. The author of […]
President Obama submits plan to shut Guantanamo Bay
Terrorist detention facility in the spotlight On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, President Barack Obama vowed to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay, before his term ends in January 2017. President Obama presented a new plan to Congress to disperse the facility’s remaining 91 detainees to other prisons, both within the […]
Ontario government unveils new student grant program
Tuition costs lessened for low income families On Feb. 25, 2016, the Ontario provincial government announced a new initiative to ease the burden on post-secondary students from low-income Ontario families. After the government’s initial announcement, Premier Kathleen Wynne spoke at the Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, on March 1, 2016, […]
Government of Ontario invests $345 million in healthcare
Ontario hopes to put patients’ needs first On Feb. 29, 2016, the Government of Ontario announced that they would follow through on their promise to invest over $345 million in publicly funded hospitals across the province. The investment is part of the provincial government’s Patients First: Action Plan for Healthcare […]
University of Guelph professor granted $550,000 for machine learning research
Engineering Professor Graham Taylor aims to help computers make sense of what they are seeing On March 1, 2016, University of Guelph engineering professor Graham Taylor announced that he would share his $550,000 NSERC grant with the university, to create a three-year international research project. Taylor intends to help make […]
About
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.