3.5 mean-spirited-but-ultimately-loveable-cads out of 4 In 2010, British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon set out on a tour of Northern England’s restaurants, hotels, and inns. Brydon’s and Coogan’s adventures were captured by Michael Winterbottom and arranged into a six-episode miniseries, and then subsequently organized into a feature-length film. Winterbottom’s […]
Author: Sameer Chhabra
The Weekly Scene: The Great Beauty (2013)
4 life-affirming-artistic-revelations out of 4 Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty is a film in which the entire universe conspires to ensure that a 65-year-old Roman man finally writes his second novel. The man is cultural critic Jep Gambardella, a socialite who so embodies the virtues of la dolce vita that […]
Apple removes the headphone jack from its iPhones
Stop worrying and love the future Last week added one more great loss to 2016’s ever-expanding catalogue: the loss of the 3.5 mm headphone jack from the latest generation of Apple iPhones. The news doesn’t come as any particularly great shock. After all, the tech industry has been abuzz with […]
The Weekly Scene: Suicide Squad (2016)
0.5 atrociously-cobbled-together-messes-of-a-movie out of 4 David Ayer’s Suicide Squad is an overly edited, poorly cobbled mess that has a dislike for visual sense and order, aural reason, and cinematic vocabulary. It is worse than a poorly made movie, it is a disastrously made movie masquerading as an audio-visual feast for […]
Getting to know the role of the Central Student Association
Maximizing the university experience The University of Guelph’s Central Student Association (CSA) is best described as student government in overdrive. The group represents the interests of the approximately 20,000 undergraduate students on-campus and advocates for student rights, as well as student desires. The CSA is often the student representative at […]
How to befriend Guelphites and not alienate people
The University of Guelph is a nice place to be University towns usually get a bad rap because university students are often portrayed as unrepentant vandals. Allegedly, we drink, we smoke, we fight, we hold opinions that are demonstrably inequitable, and we make bold claims without considering the lack of […]
Starting fresh at university and getting to know yourself better
Look back, look ahead, and try your best to learn something new I came to the University of Guelph dressed in my finest beige shorts and my favourite white polo shirt. It was the same outfit I’d worn back in high school, and, suffice it to say, I felt absolutely […]
Making the best use of your professors’ office hours
Start by actually attending office hours I didn’t properly attend one of my professor’s office hours until my second year of university. I say properly, because I distinctly remember using every skill in my arsenal to grub 10 per cent from a philosophy teaching assistant in my first year. Suffice […]
Britain votes to leave European Union
Prime Minister David Cameron announces plan to resign The people of Great Britain have cast their ballots in the June 2016 referendum. On June 23, approximately 52 per cent of British citizens eligible to cast a ballot voted to leave the European Union (EU). The results arrived after weeks of […]
When university comes to an end, what’s the deal with convocation?
Time-honoured ceremony symbol of the elite, or a chance to dress up and feel like a wizard? The heavens have opened their gates and unleashed a storm of winged swine. On June 15, 2016, at precisely 5:17 p.m., University of Guelph English undergraduate student Sameer Chhabra—described by some as a […]
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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.