Riverfest Elora’s sister festival celebrates a day of beer, tunes, and bonfires On Saturday, March 5, 2016, the oft-quiet town of Elora played host to the third annual Ice Jam. The one-day music festival is the younger and colder sister to Riverfest Elora, which will present its eighth annual festival […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
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 […]
Book Review: Keith Martin’s Seismic Shift
The story of one man’s journey from God to Goodness Seismic Shift: From God to Goodness tells the story of its author’s spiritual journey. Keith Martin presents himself as a Christian believer from a religious family for whom the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was the catalyst that shook his faith […]
The Weekly Scene: Spotlight (2015)
4 perfect-journalism-capers out of 4 On Jan. 6, 2002, in the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that gripped the American psyche only a few months earlier, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team published an article that rattled the collective faith of an entire city. In an article written by […]
People House Theatre presents Friday Night Writes
Making theatre meet instant gratification People House Theatre is a Guelph-based theatre production company that aims to create theatre for the community. With this in mind, Friday Night Writes: Monday Edition (FNW) was free, open to everyone, and took place at the University of Guelph’s campus at the Bullring. Those […]
Album of the Week
Artist: Alanis Morissette Album: Jagged Little Pill Just over 20 years ago, Canadian artist Alanis Morissette left more than just a mark on the music industry with her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill. Released in 1995, not only did this album spit out six singles, but it also won […]
University of Guelph Games Club presents Gryphcon
Get out those board games It was an exciting time for the Guelph gaming community this weekend. Taking over the basement, first, third and fourth floors of the University Center (UC) was the annual Gryphcon. Gryphcon is a gaming convention hosted by the University of Guelph Games Club, which started […]
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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.