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.
As Canada grapples with intensifying climate-related challenges, the next government will need to be able to effectively communicate its vision to voters.
President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office before departing for Florida on March 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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The possibility that what’s known as continentalist geopolitics underpins recent U.S. foreign policy initiatives has received too little attention in Canada. Here’s what it means.
The shift towards pronatalist policy is happening in many countries worldwide.
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Green bonds have the potential to be a powerful tool in the fight against climate change, but only if they are backed by real accountability.
A devastated residential block in Jasper, Alberta is shown during a tour. Wildfires encroaching into the townsite of Jasper forced an evacuation of the national park.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
By pinpointing Canada’s most vulnerable regions, targeted wildfire prevention strategies can be carried out.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a new high-speed rail network in the Toronto-Québec City corridor, in Montréal on Feb.19, 2025.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
While the announcement of a high-speed rail line between Québec City and Toronto is a milestone, multiple hurdles must be cleared for this project to see the light of day.
Protestors demonstrate outside the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. on Feb. 5, 2025, during what was billed as a nationwide series of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump, Project 2025, EDI rollbacks and other recent government initiatives.
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EDI is rooted in historical social movements that fought against exclusion. We cannot address environmental challenges without confronting class, gender and racial inequities.
Orange County Educational Arts Academy Middle school students escorted by teachers protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy outside Federal Court in Santa Ana, Calif., Feb. 6, 2025.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
We can model hope by exemplifying how engaging in the work of justice means participating in a legacy that stretches across generations.
Audience members look on as Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, Chief Justice of Canada Richard Wagner, Justice Nicholas Kasirer and a moderator take part in a town-hall style event covering a range of legal topics in Victoria on Feb. 3, 2025.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
À la tête du Parti libéral du Canada, Justin Trudeau a opéré un virage à gauche. Cette stratégie pourrait changer sous un nouveau chef.
Retrofit programs focus on upgrades like air sealing, enhanced insulation, upgrading heating and cooling systems, and installing energy-efficient windows and doors.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Retrofit programs that improve home energy efficiency have become one of Canada’s main strategies to cut emissions in the housing sector. But do these programs deliver on their promises?
Thomas Burelli, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Elie Klee, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Un brevet portant sur l’usage d’une molécule fait fi des savoirs traditionnels. Pire, il pourrait empêcher les communautés autochtones et locales d’utiliser leurs remèdes traditionnels.
A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, in 2019.
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Nelson Duenas, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The dismantling of USAID underscores a larger trend of strategic and ideological considerations that have always influenced international development aid.
Kindergarten teacher Haniyfa Scott gives a lesson during class in Montreal, April 4, 2019. Québec’s Bill 21 bans the wearing of religious symbols for new government placed employees within schools, the courts and law enforcement.
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Natasha Bakht, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Lynda Collins, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.
A Syrian woman is welcomed by a sponsor at a community gathering welcoming with her family in Queensland, N.S., in April 2016.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Refugees at risk now face longer wait times to come to Canada, and for those already here, longer periods of separation from family members abroad who remain in danger.
Ballot counters begin counting votes in Dublin after the Irish general election in November 2024.
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Seána Glennon, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A new electoral system in Canada could help curb polarization, ensure fairer representation and transform Canadian democracy for the better.
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.
Doctorant en droit international public, coordinateur du Centre du droit de l'environnement et de la durabilité mondiale de l'Université d'Ottawa, 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
Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, with Cross-Appointment to Geography, Environment and Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Professeur en droit, Section de droit civil, Université d’Ottawa (Canada), membre du Conseil scientifique de la Fondation France Libertés, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa