L'Université d'Ottawa /The University of Ottawa—Un carrefour d'idées et de culture/A crossroads of cultures and ideas
Un carrefour d’idées et de cultures L’Université d’Ottawa compte plus de 50 000 étudiants, professeurs et employés administratifs qui vivent, travaillent et étudient en français et en anglais. Notre campus est un véritable carrefour des cultures et des idées, où les esprits audacieux se rassemblent pour relancer le débat et faire naître des idées transformatrices. Nous sommes l’une des 10 meilleures universités de recherche du Canada; nos professeurs et chercheurs explorent de nouvelles façons de relever les défis d’aujourd’hui. Classée parmi les 200 meilleures universités du monde, l’Université d’Ottawa attire les plus brillants penseurs et est ouverte à divers points de vue provenant de partout dans le monde.
The University of Ottawa is home to over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is diverse with more than 300 undergraduate programs and 150 graduate degrees in 10 faculties. The university has an extensive co-op program boasting a 95 per cent placement rate. Our campus is a crossroads of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We are one of Canada’s top 10 research universities—our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today’s challenges. Ranked among the top 150 universities in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe.
La ministre Ginette Petitpas Taylor, responsable de la Loi sur les langues officielles s'adresse à la Chambre des communes le 2 juin 2023.
CP/Justin Tang
La nouvelle loi sur les langues officielles serait-elle injuste ? Trois experts constitutionnels affirment que ceux qui l’allèguent déforment les réalités canadiennes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, a pro-mining leader, during the APEC summit in Lima, Peru in November 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Despite its feminist ambitions, taking a closer look at Canada’s role in countries where it has significant mining interests reveals a more complex and nuanced image of Canada in the world.
A California Department of Corrections hand crew works containment lines ahead of the Palisades Fire on Jan. 14, 2025 in Santa Monica, Calif.
(AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The use of prison labour in fighting wildfires caused by climate injustice is only an extension of this injustice and a continuation of indentured servitude.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term in office.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Roojin Habibi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The U.S. withdrawal from WHO has seismic implications on issues like prevention of future pandemics, and the stakes are especially high for Canada.
Une rivière sauvage sur la Côte-Nord. L'entente entre Hydro-Québec et les Innus d’Unamen Shipu survient alors que le gouvernement québécois cherche à développer sa filière batterie en évaluant le potentiel en minéraux critiques et stratégiques sur leur territoire, et plus largement sur celui de la Basse-Côte-Nord.
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L’entente avec les Innus survient alors que Québec cherche à développer sa filière batterie. Les ressources nécessaires à cette production sont souvent situées en territoires autochtones.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The carbon tax, once seen as a policy achievement for the Liberals, may be a liability in this year’s election. Here is how the Liberals can counter the “axe the tax” narrative.
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, seen here at an annual Carter Town Hall at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. in September 2019, chose to spend his final years at home with hospice care.
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Eliana Close, Queensland University of Technology and James Downar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Cada vez más países legalizan la muerte asistida voluntaria. Pero ¿quién accede a ella? Los resultados de un reciente estudio internacional ofrecen algunas respuestas.
Eliana Close, Queensland University of Technology and James Downar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
More and more countries are legalising voluntary assisted dying. But who is accessing it? The results of a recent international study provide some answers.
A sign advocating for support for the homeless is seen through a fenced-in homeless encampment in Victoria Park in Halifax’s downtown in March 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Steve Lorteau, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Oliver Chan, University of Toronto
The proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments would add unhoused people to a growing list of those whose human rights have been recently curbed by the clause.
Ahou Daryaei was attacked by the morality police for wearing clothes deemed “inappropriate,” and took her clothes off. Her political gesture went viral.
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Mina Fakhravar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Iranian Ahou Daryaei has recently joined the ranks of women who have used their bodies to challenge the physical and symbolic violence to which they are subjected.
There’s been a steady increase for more than a decade in the use of mental health legislation to detain people.
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The arguments made by advocates for involuntary medical admissions and treatment aren’t supported by science.
Agressée par la police des mœurs pour des vêtements jugés « inappropriés », Ahou Daryaei a retiré ses vêtements. Son geste politique a fait le tour du monde.
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Mina Fakhravar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
L’Iranienne Ahou Daryaei a récemment rejoint cette filiation de femmes qui ont utilisé leur corps afin de contester les violences physiques et symboliques dont elles sont victimes.
Women and villagers wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, in October 2024.
(AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu)
Activists from abroad living in Canada have a broad vision and great interest in tangibly improving the lives of all people living in ongoing colonial and other conflict.
Canada’s proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act takes only small steps to recognize the sensitivity of children’s information.
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Teresa Scassa, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Neither prospective school board social media lawsuit wins, nor proposed Ontario or federal privacy or AI legislation, would prevent problems related to rampant processing of human-derived data.
People walk down a path surrounded by large trees at Stanley Park in Vancouver, on June 21, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Tree and bird diversity has been linked to a number of positive mental health outcomes. It is time that urban planners interested in human well-being take biodiversity into account.
Alexander Lapshin, centre, a Russian blogger detained by police in Belarus in December 2016, is escorted out of a plane in February 2017 by law enforcement agents in Baku, Azerbaijan after being extradited there by Belarus. He was later convicted of taking an unauthorized journalistic trip.
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Alexander Lapshin’s experiences being detained and tortured for allegedly insulting an authoritarian strongman highlights the dangers faced by activists even in seemingly secure environments.
Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada are seen during a welcome ceremony at the Supreme Court, in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The Supreme Court has chosen to exclude from intervention the voices of those directly impacted. This exclusion rehearses Canada’s longer history of excluding sex workers.
A recent study found that only 14 per cent of preschoolers around the world are meeting movement recommendations for physical activity, sleep and screen time.
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Mark S Tremblay, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Nicholas Kuzik, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Physical activity, screen time and sleep levels for preschoolers in Canada and globally don’t meet recommendations, risking global health challenges. It’s time to get little ones a little more active.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Richard Wagner, at his annual press conference in Ottawa on June 3, 2024. He gave three reasons to explain the Court’s inaction in translating judgments handed down before 1970.
The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
Yan Campagnolo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; François Larocque, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Lawrence David, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Three years after a request made by the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Supreme Court is still refusing to translate its decisions handed down before 1970. Its reasons are not valid.
Professeure titulaire, Faculté de droit, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en santé mentale et accès à la justice | Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Canada Research Chair on Mental Health and Access to Justice, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Full Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law | Professeur titulaire, Chaire de recherche Droits et enjeux linguistiques, Faculté de droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa