A RECENT STUDY by the British chapter of home improvement powerhouse Dulux made a shocking discovery about the amount of sex English citizens have on an annual basis. According to the study, which surveyed 2,000 couples across the country, the average English couple gets down and dirty only 42 times a year—that’s right, less than once a week. Clearly this [...]
WOULDN’T IT BE horrible to have your train ticket paid for? Or what about your cab fare? Free bottles of champagne, anyone? Everything I’ve listed doesn’t seem to fit into the low spectrum of life, now does it? Well, these are the occurrences that Samantha Brick, a Daily Mirror columnist, experiences practically every day. But, according to Brick, these perks [...]
ON MARCH 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down several laws they judged placed unconstitutional restrictions upon the ability of prostitutes to protect themselves while practicing their trade. The groundbreaking ruling will allow prostitutes to organize themselves in brothels and hire bodyguards or other employees to improve the safety of their work environments. Now, I’m of the apparently radical [...]
THROUGHOUT THE FOUR and a half years it took me to complete my English degree, one of the things I was most consistently ridiculed for by my peers was my passion for fantasy literature. Despite the eye rolling and snarky comments, I still consider “fairie” lit, as it was dubbed by the Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. [...]
WITH CONVOCATION JUST around the corner, many University of Ottawa students are finally finding an opportunity to reflect on what their time at this institution has meant. This week, in a special ode to the U of O, graduating students share their stories and advice for those who still have time at this university to take advantage of. Success is [...]
AS OF APRIL 2, the wise City of Ottawa has chosen to implement changes to local bylaws to provide more of what they are calling “smoke-free spaces.” These changes have made it so no one can smoke a cigarette on any outdoor municipal properties (parks, beaches, sports fields), the ByWard or Parkdale Market stands, and on any outdoor restaurant or [...]
NO MATTER HOW hard students work at their law and political science degrees, it’s not likely anyone from the University of Ottawa will be taking over Stephen Harper’s job any time soon. Still, students deserve a say in what this country needs, so this week the Fulcrum found out what they would do if they did get a shot at [...]
IF THE NAME Draw Something doesn’t mean anything to you, then you have missed one hell of a bandwagon. The seven-week-old app has garnered 350 million downloads to date and that number is growing daily. One of the fastest chart-toppers in Apple app history, Draw Something has taken techies by storm. For those uninitiated into the Draw Something universe, the [...]
LAST WEEK, SEVERAL people took to Twitter in anger over The Hunger Games’ theatrical release. Was it horrible acting a la Twilight that set them off? Or did they express their disdain merely because of how the book translated onto the big screen, skipping through their most beloved parts and displaying less violence than the book to fit the PG-13 [...]
HERE WE ARE, the third, fourth, and fifth years of the University of Ottawa community, at the end of the road. About to walk away from this school, some students are ready to hit the road running. Some, though, are going to miss this place. This time last year, I stared longingly at those who were on their way out. [...]
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