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The pandemic has represented a period of hyper-speed digital transformation at higher education institutions across Canada. At Canada’s Higher Education Information Technology Conference (CANHEIT 2021), four Chief Information Officers sat down to share their pandemic reflections with IT professionals from across the country. Our Chief Information Officer, Martin Bernier, was not a panellist, but w...

Mylan Allen’s journey to graduation from OLBI’s Second Language Teaching program (with a specialization in teaching French and a minor in Spanish) is a tale of determination, resilience and drive. It’s also a testament to how a bilingual environment fosters creativity, motivates further learning and promotes an open-minded perspective on the world and its many cultures and languages.

Mylan Allen’s journey to graduation from OLBI’s Second Language Teaching program (with a specialization in teaching French and a minor in Spanish) is a tale of determination, resilience and drive. It’s also a testament to how a bilingual environment fosters creativity, motivates further learning and promotes an open-minded perspective on the world and its many cultures and languages.

Asserting culture and identity through language

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the frustrations of how poor connectivity in a home office can wreak on online meetings. The ramifications of a weak connection in a small-office and home-office (or SOHO) does not end there: imagine the consequences for a small software development shop failing to deploy time-sensitive software for its clients, ...

Survey results from 216 people who gave birth at The Ottawa Hospital between March and June 2020 showed that 52 (24 percent) experienced controlling or abusive behaviour from their partners during their perinatal period (one year pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, and one year after birth) This is the first study to look at intimate partn...

A Convocation is the official ceremony at which one is conferred their degree by their university’s Chancellor in front of their peers. It is imbued with time-old traditions, pomp, and circumstance to reflect the accomplishments made by the graduating class but throw in a global pandemic and one must adapt to the times. And so, we have...

Canada is currently facing a significant shortage of French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers. While this problem is complex and multifaceted, a lack of qualified teachers and a high rate of teacher turnover are largely to blame.To work towards better understanding and potentially solving this problem, the Canadian Association of Second Lan...

2020 and 2021 Alumni Association Awards of Excellence: The winners Twelve recipients were honoured Thursday night at a virtual ceremony for the University of Ottawa Alumni Association's 2020 and 2021 Awards of Excellence. The 2020 recipients include The Ottawa Hospital President and CEO, Dr. John Jack Kitts (Faculty of Medicine and Te...

uOttawa calls on G7 leaders to prioritize the interests of future generations and work to reduce the effects of climate change Today marks the start of the 47th G7 Summit in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The summit agenda will be dominated by economic stimulus measures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, access to vaccines for resi...