Annual award ceremony recognizes exceptional community builders On March 20, the University of Guelph’s most promising student leaders arrived at the Royal City Ballroom at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre for the annual Student Life Recognition Banquet. Students mingled with faculty and staff, speeches were read, dinner was served, […]
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CollabNow Invites Student Entrepreneurs To Collaborate
Event fosters student’s entrepreneurial spirit and tests abilities with real life challenge The Entrepreneurship Society at the University of Guelph hosted an event on Saturday, March 22 entitled CollabNow: Breaking Barriers. Facilitated at Innovation Guelph, a hub for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs, the event brought students from multiple academic backgrounds […]
New CIP Course Takes Students To Dharamsala
Students will get experience working with local human rights groups The Centre for International Programs will offer a two-part course that includes a fieldwork component in Dharamsala, India for the Winter 2015 semester. The course will be taught by Dr. Andrea Paras of the Department of Political Science at the […]
Green Gryphon Initiative To Spend $26M On Retrofits
Students have helped fund the project, which will improve water and energy efficiency In a referendum back in 2007, University of Guelph students voted in favour of a $10 per semester student fee that would create a fund to help make campus more sustainable and energy efficient. Those contributions will […]
Inside Farming: Changing Roles For Changing Times
Farming is an industry that has long been dominated by men, but that is changing. The presence of women in agriculture has been rapidly increasing over the past few decades, and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. Historically, the roles of women on the farm have been […]
Once Upon A Time: A Question of Love
Does love exist or is it just a fairy tale? From a first kiss on the playground in kindergarten to the binding one at the altar, love means something different to everybody. Many people fall in love various times throughout their lives with multiple people, and others never know the […]
/r/FacebookCleavage
With over one billion Facebook users, including 500 million female users, a recent discovery of the subreddit /r/FacebookCleavage has really got me thinking about privacy, trust, and friendship. Before I go on, let me elaborate on what this subreddit entails. It’s very simple: /r/FacebookCleavage is a subreddit on the popular […]
The Conclusion of History
Humanity’s fascination with its own demise Over the last few decades or so, an apocalypse, worldwide disasters, zombies, and the destruction of the human race have been prevalent themes throughout popular culture. Movies like World War Z, Zombieland, 28 Days Later, the Book of Eli, and TV shows like The […]
Is A Stigma Still Attached To Being A Single Woman?
Suruchi Sharma’s experiences as a single woman in India in relation to North American culture An article was recently published on bbc.com titled, “No country for single women.” In the article, Suruchi Sharma discusses the extreme stigma attached to single women over 25 in India. “There is a stigma associated […]
Smooth Sailing For The 90th College Royal
Annual open house prevails over cold weather Every year College Royal puts on more events than is possible to recount. Not for nothing is it called the largest student-run open house in North America. And despite the unseasonably cold weather, this year’s College Royal – the 90th annual celebration – […]
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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.