At 11-years-old my family and I went on a cruise ship for vacation. During the trip we visited an island…
A harsh reality
I sat on my bed cramming to do my grade 11 homework, not knowing I would never end up handing…
Fast, loud and successful: for this University of Ottawa student, cars are a family affair
Breaking necks is generally a bad thing. Yet when you have a car that’s capable of turning heads so fast…
Column: I’m a journalist and I hate approaching strangers
Anxiety. It’s something that many students, myself included, deal with. Studying in a field that requires me to push…
My race car is faster than your race car: UOttawa and Carleton engineering teams meet at the Ottawa-Gatineau Auto Show
The Ottawa-Gatineau Auto Show isn’t just about high-performance cars: student engineers with mad skills for speed are on hand too
New series: Auto-motivated Thursdays
The feel of a six-speed manual gearbox. The smell of gasoline and burning rubber on Merivale Road after those wild…
You want a great job when you graduate? Follow these five steps
What are the five steps you need to follow if you want to land a job after you graduate?…
This former Glue and Algonquin Times editor is up for a national photography award
The National Newspaper Awards aren’t until May, but the nominees for the NNAs are already lined up. One of them…
‘I just want to know she’s out there’: Ottawa student searches for birth mom
The first thing she noticed was her smile. When 15-year-old Kathryn Brigit Fitzgerald’s parents handed her photos of her birth…
If Canada and the U.S. breakup, expert ex-lovers advise: set boundaries, no tweeting
With Trump’s looming threat to breakup NAFTA, North America’s long love affair, Canada is preparing for the potential heartache as…