Local leading ladies rock the eBar On Friday Jan. 29, 2016 the eBar was host to a night of powerful female-led rock and roll. The lineup included Guelph’s own Cupcake Ductape alongside The Folk and Toronto’s So Young. The event, hosted by Kazoo!, was a fundraiser for the new Guelph […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
Jordan Foisy’s Hazy Ontario Stand-Up Tour
Comedy at The Cornerstone Jordan Foisy is a stand-up comedian from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He’s been doing stand-up for the last six years and has performed at NXNE, JFL42, Field Trip, and Hamilton’s SuperCrawl. Over nine days in January, Foisy performed seven shows in seven cities across Ontario. On […]
Album review: Junior Boys’ Big Black Coat
Taking a look at the Hamilton band’s newest LP Hamilton, Ontario has become something of a prolific music-incubator in recent years, producing acts such as the Arkells and Jessy Lanza. Coming from the “Steel City,” Jeremy Greenspan and Mark Didemus make up the intimately complex duo Junior Boys, and their […]
Around the City: Guelph’s first puzzle room opens
University of Guelph alumni bring the puzzle room trend to their city You’re locked in a room with a series of confounding puzzles. Perhaps you’re a jewel thief trying to escape before security comes, or you’re hiding from a serial killer, or you’ve been placed in the room by a […]
Album of the Week
Artist: Jazz Cartier Album: Hotel Paranoia Toronto-based rapper and hip-hop artist Jazz Cartier recently released his second LP on Feb. 1, 2016. Relatively well-known among fans of Toronto’s underground hip-hop scene, Cartier’s newest project will surely garner attention from a larger, more mainstream audience. With apparent influences from Drake, and […]
The Weekly Scene: Sicario (2015)
3.5 morally-ambiguous-military-operations out of 4 It doesn’t take very long for director Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario to throw off its action-thriller label, in favour of something more thoughtful and thought-provoking. The moment is in the film’s first scene—a stunning sequence where a SWAT van bursts through a wall, and the officers […]
Wikia and Wikipedia collaborate to bring us Fandom
Spin-off site encourages fans to create their own content Wikia, an online encyclopedia for pop culture fandom, has recently opened a sequel site called Fandom. Although Wikia already provides a space for fans to participate in reporting on fandom topics, as most of the encyclopedic content is written by fans, […]
This Week on the Internet
A glorious year ahead for the Harry Potter Universe In 2016, a new play and movie taking place in the Harry Potter universe will open, and J.K. Rowling continues to release new information about the wizarding world. For four days straight beginning Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, J.K. Rowling’s new info […]
Listen: Memoryhouse’s “Sarah”
After releasing The Slideshow Effect almost four years ago, Guelph’s Memoryhouse is finally releasing a new album entitled Soft Hate. In anticipation for their upcoming LP, the dream pop duo has released three new tracks, including “Sarah,” which became available for stream earlier this month. Click below to listen to […]
The ONTaku: eSports
In high school, I was self-admittedly addicted to massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)—Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft (WoW) and Turbine’s Dungeons & Dragons Online, in particular. I played for the interactive storytelling experience of the games. The Tolkien fangirl in me thrilled to quest alongside elves, dwarves, and orcs. […]
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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.