In all honesty, with all of our editorial topics having been fairly heavy this summer, The Ontarion wanted to cap our summer publications with a rant about the World Cup. It was going to be simple. It was going to be funny. It was maybe even going to elicit some sort of an indignant response [...]

There has been a lot of talk about the upcoming G20 and G8 summits soon to take place on Canadian soil. It seems that there is no shortage of things to dislike about the fast-approaching meeting of industrial world leaders. For us at The Ontarion, it’s almost overwhelming to try and pin-down one bone to [...]

Last year the federal government saw fit to give Toronto’s annual gay pride festival a “marquee events” grant of $397,500 to fund the event. This year the festival will get nothing in the way of federal funding. This, despite the festival being a major tourist attraction for the city of Toronto drawing hundreds of thousands [...]

“Give us 12 months to tidy up.”
“We’re working on our inner beauty.”
“We may be a mess but you don’t have to be.”
These are just some of the many signs that the City of Guelph has strategically placed around town to inform frustrated Guelph citizens that the construction they have to deal with is a necessary [...]

A reader came into the Ontarion office early last week criticizing the paper for its coverage of the referendum on continued membership in the Canadian Federation of Students. She held up the paper in front of my desk, visibly distraught, and informed me we hadn’t been balanced in our reporting. She was angry, also concerned [...]

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) did everything to stop this referendum from happening. Months ago, they refused to accept the petitions asking for the opportunity to let U of G students decide whether they truly want to be members of the CFS. It took a court battle and the ruling of a judge to [...]

What the upcoming referendum comes down to is whether the relationship between the CFS and students on this campus is necessary enough to trump a clear attempt to put up barriers to student democracy.  
Across the nation, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) seems to get a bad rap. Far too often, they are painted as [...]