Simple ways to get some green in your life Spring is almost here, and with the warmer weather and melting snow comes this innate desire to brighten up your green thumb and grow something. Unfortunately, not all of us are so skilled at fostering the growth of another living thing. […]
Author: Alyssa Ottema
Freeze the Fees?
A look at student movement controversy The CSA’s Pay More, Get Less campaign works to fight “against tuition fee increases and budget cuts at U of G,” according to Peter Miller, Academic and University Affairs Commissioner at the University of Guelph. On Thursday, Feb. 26, the CSA hosted the “Stick […]
Student Senate Caucus
What you need to know The Student Senate Caucus (SSC) is a powerful, but little-known, student governmental organization at the University of Guelph. Following the recent opening of the 2015-2016 nomination period, The Ontarion sat down with the current SSC co-chairs, Arianne Cohen and Thomas Sasso, to learn more about […]
#AskHerMore
New campaign sees widespread support on 2015 red carpet At the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Cate Blanchette called attention to an increasing prevalent social issue, on the red carpet and off. As she was interviewed by E!’s Giuliana Rancic, Blanchette noticed the camera slowly panning her body. Bending down […]
Rare Kerouac Work to be Published
Quebec publishing house to release in 2016 Les Editions du Boreal, a publishing house based in Quebec, recently signed a deal to publish rare, unseen works from Jack Kerouac’s estate, written entirely in his native French. Kerouac, who was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, in a French-American community, spoke […]
Cover-to-Cover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, at only 37, has made quite a splash on the global literary scene. In 2011, The Times Literary Supplement hailed as the “most prominent” of a long list of young authors working to attract “a new generation of […]
You’ve Probably Seen this on Pinterest
Signs you’re crushing your 20s (even if it doesn’t feel like it) While procrastinating my work (what? Marking papers?) and my readings (what even are books?), I found a wonderful pin from Hello Giggles. This pin, in all its kind glory, assured me that my wasting my time pinning pictures […]
Under the Radar
Nunavut court sentence former missionary priest On Wednesday, Feb. 4, defrocked Belgian Oblate Eric Dejaeger, 67, was sentenced to 19 years in prison on 32 sex crimes committed in the 1970s and early 1980s. The crimes committed were mostly against young children in Igloolik, Nunavut, a remote hamlet of about […]
Cover to Cover
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.” I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the first of […]
Harper Lee to Release New Book in 2015
Long-lost To Kill A Mockingbird sequel to be published 55 years after the release of her first and only novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee has announced plans to publish its sequel, Go Set A Watchman, which focuses on the adult life of Scout Finch. The book is set […]
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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.