Facebook promotes gender diversity Gender is often thought of in polarized terms and within our society it’s often assumed that you’re male or female, a man or a woman, or a boy or a girl. When we meet people, we often use gender as one of the first characteristics to […]
Editorial
’Tis The Season to Make Lemonade
Does it not feel like, lately, there’s an inordinate amount of pressure to do things that you don’t want to do? Take the infamous ‘Neknominations’ for example; an online drinking game where someone is filmed doing something daring while drinking at the same time, and then tags two friends to […]
Fighting the Stigma Against Arts and Humanities
Deciding what to study when attending a postsecondary educational institute is a difficult process. Unfortunately, if your decision falls under the category of Arts and Humanities, you are then not only continually judged by their peers, but also by the rest of the people in your life. It has been […]
State of the (Student) Union
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, President Obama made his annual State of the Union address in front of the United States House of Congress. He vowed to use his executive authority to act unilaterally should Congressional Republicans continue to stonewall his agenda. House Republicans have successfully forced Obama to scale down […]
Anti-abortion Bus Ads Infringe on Rights
For nearly a decade, the Guelph & Area Right to Life Association has been displaying advertisements on the back of several Guelph Transit buses. “Simply Human” is an ad most Guelph residents are likely familiar with; it depicts an image of an unborn human fetus next to the phrase “This […]
Unethical Unpaid Internships
Should interns be working for free? It seems like there’s a new article published nearly every week on the topic of millennials and the chaotic state of their lives. The media would have us believe that they’re all over-educated, technologically addicted, under-employed, and chronically unable to contend with the harsh […]
Welcome to Camp Sochi
The Sochi Olympics are going to look more like a far-off warzone, or a setting straight out of a George Orwell novel, than an event that historically has brought together people of different culture, nationality, religion, race, and sex to participate in the universal love for sports. On Jan. 4, […]
Bullying in the Modern Age
The destructive use of cyberspace and acting for change The year 2013 will soon come to a close, and looking back on the past twenty years spent in the education system, it is recognized that something in desperate need of change – the way people treat each other, and ultimately, […]
Guelph Needs a Stronger Core Curriculum
Students need 20.00 credits, or as many as 40 courses, to graduate from the University of Guelph with an Undergraduate (Honours) degree. Yet should a student choose to major in History, for example, the undergraduate course calendar obliges them to take just five mandatory ‘core’ courses. Put differently, 87 per […]
Why Aren’t Machines Doing All Our Bullshit Jobs?
In the 1930s, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by century’s end, our workweek would be cut to just 15 hours due to technological developments. He hypothesized that people would choose to dedicate more time to leisure because technology would help satisfy our material needs. In the ’50s and […]
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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.